My 5 Least Favourite Warframes
By now, it’s pretty clear what my favourite Warframe is. Volt has held that number 1 spot ever since I started playing Warframe. While other frames have come and gone over the years, there’s actually a small group of Warframes that I genuinely don’t like. So here is a nice little article about my least favourite Warframes.
Mesa
Mesa is a popular frame, and I can see why. She has great looks, a great kit and dishes out a lot of damage. Not only that, but she also gets damage reduction as well, and has a ton of cool skins. However most of Mesa’s disadvantages are pretty easy to overcome. Even the issue of being suck in place can be easily resolved with a single mod.
So me saying that I don’t like Mesa does seem like I’m being a hipster or something. But the thing is, I just don’t enjoy using Mesa. After all, I am already carrying a pistol, I don’t always want to stop what I’m doing to get my other pistols out shoot things.
Yareli
For some reason, Yareli’s mere existence makes me angrier than necessary. This is a Warframe that doesn’t tick any boxes for what I want. I dunno, I just find the small, weeb-like theme incredibly annoying. It’s too far into anime territory, I guess. Yareli doesn’t fit in with anyone else. Not even with Nezha, who by default is a bit smaller than most.
Doesn’t help that her kit seems really weird. The star of her kit, Merulina, is a K-Drive you can use in any mission to fly about. But her other abilities all kinda require Yareli to stand still. Sure, some extra effects have been added to make Yareli more useful, but I feel the whole entire concept is kinda screwy.
Finally, her quest is the worst. Even the old Limbo Theorem quest is less tedious than Yareli’s story.
Sevagoth
It’s actually pretty sad that the two most recent Warframes (at the time of writing at least) are both frames that I really dislike. Sevagoth here is honestly very lackluster. In fact, he’s so lackluster that multiple friends of mine leveled Sevagoth up to level 30, then immediately fed Sevagoth to the Helminth. Why? Because, as far as a lot of players are concerned, Sevagoth’s only useful ability is Gloom.
But Sevagoth has additional issues too. He encroaches on Nekros’s territory by being a death-themed frame, while also having a really short quest that makes little sense. And if you do keep Sevagoth, his builds are insanely prohibitive. Not only do you need to forma Sevagoth, but you have to polarize both his Shadow and his Shadow Claws as well.
Sevagoth does have one tiny upside though. Gloom is insanely useful on other Warframes. It’s Sevagoth himself that has issues.
Chroma
Funnily enough, Chroma could be considered one of the most powerful Warframes around. Chroma is known for taking damage and turning it into heaps of damage. Annoyingly though, Chroma is just really not fun to use. The only builds for him all require just keeping his middle two abilities up for as long as possible. While it’s nice to be able to swap elements mid-mission now, the buffs provided aren’t enough to draw me in.
There’s also a small issue that Chroma just isn’t particularly cool-looking either. On the scale of cool visuals, Chroma is a 2/5 at best, and often looks worse whenever he uses his sentient dragon coat. Actually, I take that back. Chroma Prime does look really nice. But it’s not dragon-y, it’s dragon-hunter-y. You can really see this when Chroma uses Elemental Ward. He ends up looking really… weird, I guess.
Garuda
I kinda feel bad for sticking Garuda in here, but she isn’t appealing to me in any real way. Which is odd because I’m normally fine with offering blood to the blood god. However, I don’t enjoy playing with her at all, and I struggle to make her look good. It’s also tricky to make her less monstrous, and her deluxe skin is really, really skinny.
What bothers me the most is how you obtain Garuda. The components are in Fortuna bounties. But Garuda’s blueprint is just an afterthought in the Vox Solaris introduction quest. There’s practically no lore about Garuda at all. Eudico sends you a message with the blueprint and that’s it. For a newer Warfame, I find it somewhat boggling that Garuda got nothing, while Khora got a little bit of lore, as did Gara and Revenant.
I could also complain that she’s the Valkyr rework that we always wanted, but, eh, that’s a bit too far.
At the end of the day, I don’t really want to say that these frames are bad. Well, except for Yareli. They just don’t give me any satisfaction when I do play with them.