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Grendel

Iron Gut

Gourmand Armor Feast

Frame
Grendel
Forma
4
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.

Alternative builds

Build dossier · Iron Gut

4 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.