Koumei

Support / Healer

Test your luck with the dice-maiden. Koumei weaves fate to unleash damage and ensure her survival. To the virtuous, she is an oracle. To the wicked, a perilous game of chance.

Role: Support / Healer
Aura: Madurai
Polarities: MaduraiNaramon
Mastery: 0
Introduced: Update 37.0 (2024-10-02)

Stats

Type: Warframe
Category: Warframes
Mastery: 0
Health: 344
Shield: 122
Armor: 444
Energy: 122
Sprint Speed: 1.0
Build Cost: 25,000 Credits
Build Time: 24h 0m
Rush: 50 Platinum

Warframe dossier

Verified 2026-07-22

Playstyle

Test your luck with the dice-maiden. Built around Kumihimo, Omikuji, Omamori.

Passive

Every duration seconds, one of Koumei's weapons will inflict random Status Effects for duration seconds.

When to Pick

You want a support / healer toolkit and Koumei’s fantasy matches the mission.
Your squad is missing what Koumei brings — especially Kumihimo.
You already own the mods / archon shards that make Koumei’s scaling comfortable on Steel Path.

Kit Overview

Kumihimo (Ability 1): Weave the threads of destiny.
Omikuji (Ability 2): Koumei glimpses a favorable future and the precise steps needed to reach it.
Omamori (Ability 3): Surround yourself with Omamori Charms, each with a chance to have enemy attacks heal you instead of damage you.
Bunraku (Ability 4): Wield your foe’s fate threads like the strings of marionettes.

Abilities & Augments

1
Kumihimo →
Energy 25
Weave the threads of destiny. Enemies who touch the threads suffer a random Elemental Status Effect. A roll of triple sixes creates threads that inflict one of every Elemental Status Effect.
Augment
Kumihimo LoadingOpen augment →
2
Omikuji →
Energy 25
Koumei glimpses a favorable future and the precise steps needed to reach it. Complete the challenge to earn a Decree. Unlucky rolls add a debuff, but you can hold the ability to reject the Omikuji. A roll of triple sixes grants a Decree without a challenge.
Augment
Omikuji's FortuneOpen augment →
3
Omamori →
Energy 25
Surround yourself with Omamori Charms, each with a chance to have enemy attacks heal you instead of damage you. The number of charms is determined by Koumei's dice roll. A roll of triple sixes grants invulnerability for the duration of your Omamori Charms.
No augment
4
Bunraku →
Energy 25
Wield your foe’s fate threads like the strings of marionettes. Koumei’s dice determine how many Status Effects foes in front of Koumei will suffer. A roll of triple sixes causes further Status Effects over time and extends Bunraku to enemies behind Koumei.
No augment

Ability Priority

1
Omamori
Surround yourself with Omamori Charms, each with a chance to have enemy attacks heal you instead of damage you.
2
Kumihimo
Weave the threads of destiny.
3
Omikuji
Koumei glimpses a favorable future and the precise steps needed to reach it.
4
Bunraku
Wield your foe’s fate threads like the strings of marionettes.

Helminth / Subsume

Kumihimo is often the Helminth sacrifice if your build never needs Ability 1 and you’d rather import a strip, buff, or survival tool.
Keep Omikuji and later abilities when they define Koumei’s identity.
Never subsume the ability that enables the rest of the kit’s energy or survival loop.

Mod Scaling

Strength: Raises damage and effect potency across Koumei’s Strength-scaling abilities.
Duration: Extends channeled / timed effects — often comfort on Koumei if the kit leans on buffs or zones.
Range: Helps radius / targeting tools. Dump it if Koumei is mostly self-buff or exalted weapons.
Efficiency: Keeps ability uptime comfortable, especially on longer Steel Path missions.

Priority

Match the priority to your main ability — Strength or Duration first for most kits, then Efficiency, then Range.

Mission Usefulness

Mission / Context	Rating	Why
Steel Path Survival / Defense / Disruption	Strong	Use Koumei on Steel Path when the squad already has strip/nukes and you need Kumihimo. Weave the threads of destiny. Test your luck with the dice-maiden.
Mobile Defense / Excavation	Excellent	Point-hold missions reward Koumei: Kumihimo turns the excavator into a killbox. Weave the threads of destiny. Test your luck with the dice-maiden.
Exterminate / Capture Speed Runs	Situational	Usable on speed runs, but Koumei’s support / healer kit usually wants longer objectives than a 3-minute Exterminate. Weave the threads of destiny. Test your luck with the dice-maiden.
Spy / Rescue / Nightmare	Situational	Only if you already know the vaults — Koumei is not a Spy specialist and Kumihimo won’t save a loud play. Weave the threads of destiny. Test your luck with the dice-maiden.
Open World / Bounties	Strong	Strong on packed bounty camps; Koumei still leans on Operator / Archwing for the empty travel stretches while Kumihimo handles fights. Weave the threads of destiny. Test your luck with the dice-maiden.
Long-Range Gunplay / Eidolon-Style Content	Weak	Koumei wants pack clear or finishers, not pure long-range; Kumihimo won’t save an Eidolon-style loadout. Weave the threads of destiny. Test your luck with the dice-maiden.