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Grendel Prime

Iron Gut

Gourmand Armor Feast

Frame
Grendel Prime
Forma
2
Playstyle
Helminth
Keep 1 · Gourmand

Gourmand Grendel - spend health to Feast, stack gut armor, Nourish the tax back, then strip and clear from an iron stomach. Grendel Prime's extra polarities cut Forma versus base Grendel for the same polarity story.

Alternative builds

Build dossier · Iron Gut

2 Forma

Loadout

Aura + Exilus on top, then eight general slots in two rows of four.

-7

Growing Power

On Status Effect with Weapon: Squad increases personal Ability Strength by 25% for 6s.

9

Power Drift

+15% Ability Strength · +30% Chance to Resist Knockdown

16

Blind Rage

+99% Ability Strength · -55% Ability Efficiency

16

Transient Fortitude

+55% Ability Strength · -27.5% Ability Duration

14

Primed Continuity

+55% Ability Duration

14

Stretch

+82.5% Ability Range

14

Primed Flow

+185% Energy Max

9

Gourmand

Feast Augment: Instead of Energy, consumes 200 Health on cast. Glutton grants an additional 150 Armor per enemy.

12

Adaptation

When Damaged: · +10% Resistance to that Damage Type for 20s. Stacks up to 90%.

16

Umbral Vitality

+100% Health · +11% Tau Resistance

Arcanes

Recommended pair first, then flexible swaps.

RecommendedMolt AugmentedWarframe · RareStrengthRecommendedArcane BlessingWarframe · RareHealth
Arcane GuardianWarframe · UncommonAlt armor

Arsenal

Playstyle

Gourmand Feast — spend health to eat, stack armor per victim, Nourish to heal the tax, then Regurgitate / guns from a full iron gut.

Passive abilities

Armor scales with enemies in the gut. Feast fuels Nourish, Pulverize, and Regurgitate — an empty stomach shuts the kit down. ~134% Strength fully strips with Regurgitate.

Active abilities

  • 1 Feast — Swallow enemies. Gourmand spends health instead of energy and adds armor per victim. Hold to vomit bile.
  • 2 Nourish — Heal from the gut, Viral weapon buff, energy multiplier, AoE Viral on hit. Keep it up. Hearty Nourishment cleanses.
  • 3 Pulverize — Meatball mode with heal and knockdowns. Catapult launches you. Common Roar Helminth slot.
  • 4 Regurgitate — Puke a bile enemy as a toxic projectile — slow + armor strip. Gastro adds bouncing gas clouds.
  • Augment: Gourmand on Feast. Hearty Nourishment optional cleanse.

Mod breakdown

Strength / Health

Armor stacks and Nourish heal want Strength; health pool cushions Gourmand casts.

Aura / Exilus

Archon shards

  • Strength
  • Armor / Health
  • Casting Speed

Helminth

Keep Feast for the augment. Roar over Pulverize is fine.

Mission Usefulness

  • Steel Path Survival / Defense / Disruption

    Excellent

    Gourmand Feast spends health for armor stacks — tanky gut engine for SP.

  • Mobile Defense / Excavation

    Excellent

    Full stomach armor on the point; Nourish heals the Gourmand tax.

  • Exterminate / Capture Speed Runs

    Strong

    Armor comfort; slightly slower than Gastro spam.

  • Spy / Rescue / Nightmare

    Weak

    Not stealth.

  • Open World / Bounties

    Strong

    Tanky camps.

  • Long-Range Gunplay / Eidolon-Style Content

    Situational

    Tanky hunts; still not an Eidolon frame.