Yareli

Summoner / Companion

The waverider can unleash a flood of destruction on the battlefield. Yareli’s aqueous attacks deal high damage. Surf’s up. Enemies down.

Role: Summoner / Companion
Aura: Madurai
Polarities: MaduraiNaramon
Mastery: 0
Introduced: Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

Stats

Type: Warframe
Category: Warframes
Mastery: 0
Health: 270
Shield: 455
Armor: 105
Energy: 200
Sprint Speed: 1.0
Build Cost: 25,000 Credits
Build Time: 72h 0m
Rush: 50 Platinum

Warframe dossier

Verified 2026-07-22

Playstyle

The waverider can unleash a flood of destruction on the battlefield. Built around Sea Snares, Merulina, Aquablades.

Passive

Yareli gains +a percentage Critical Chance for Secondary weapons when she has been moving for at least several seconds.

When to Pick

You want a summoner / companion toolkit and Yareli’s fantasy matches the mission.
Your squad is missing what Yareli brings — especially Sea Snares.
You already own the mods / archon shards that make Yareli’s scaling comfortable on Steel Path.

Kit Overview

Sea Snares (Ability 1): Form five water globules that seek out enemies and expand on contact, simultaneously damaging and immobilizing their victims.
Merulina (Ability 2): Summon Merulina, a rideable creature of the waves, and the inspiration for K-Driving.
Aquablades (Ability 3): Tear through foes with a trio of orbiting aquatic blades.
Riptide (Ability 4): Drag enemies into a crushing maelstrom and then blow them away in a watery burst.

Abilities & Augments

1
Sea Snares →
Energy 25
Form five water globules that seek out enemies and expand on contact, simultaneously damaging and immobilizing their victims. Enemies hit by the globules take increased damage from all sources.
No augment
2
Merulina →
Energy 25
Summon Merulina, a rideable creature of the waves, and the inspiration for K-Driving. Merulina protects Yareli by absorbing a large portion of incoming damage.
Augment
Loyal MerulinaOpen augment →
3
Aquablades →
Energy 25
Tear through foes with a trio of orbiting aquatic blades.
Augment
Surging BladesOpen augment →
4
Riptide →
Energy 25
Drag enemies into a crushing maelstrom and then blow them away in a watery burst. Each enemy trapped in the vortex increases the burst's damage.
No augment

Ability Priority

1
Sea Snares
Form five water globules that seek out enemies and expand on contact, simultaneously damaging and immobilizing their victims.
2
Merulina
Summon Merulina, a rideable creature of the waves, and the inspiration for K-Driving.
3
Aquablades
Tear through foes with a trio of orbiting aquatic blades.
4
Riptide
Drag enemies into a crushing maelstrom and then blow them away in a watery burst.

Helminth / Subsume

Sea Snares is often the Helminth sacrifice if your build never needs Ability 1 and you’d rather import a strip, buff, or survival tool.
Keep Merulina and later abilities when they define Yareli’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 Yareli’s Strength-scaling abilities.
Duration: Extends channeled / timed effects — often comfort on Yareli if the kit leans on buffs or zones.
Range: Helps radius / targeting tools. Dump it if Yareli 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	Excellent	Endless Steel Path is where Yareli’s loop peaks — Aquablades is the button you press every pack. Tear through foes with a trio of orbiting aquatic blades.
Mobile Defense / Excavation	Strong	Yareli can hold Mobile Defense / Excavation without sweating every spawn, mainly via Sea Snares. Form five water globules that seek out enemies and expand on contact, simultaneously damaging and immobilizing their….
Exterminate / Capture Speed Runs	Situational	Usable on speed runs, but Yareli’s summoner / companion kit usually wants longer objectives than a 3-minute Exterminate. Form five water globules that seek out enemies and expand on contact, simultaneously damaging and immobilizing their….
Spy / Rescue / Nightmare	Weak	Loud kit. Leave Spy / Rescue to invis or silence frames; Sea Snares doesn’t make Yareli quiet. Form five water globules that seek out enemies and expand on contact, simultaneously damaging and immobilizing their…. The waverider can unleash a flood of destruction on the battlefield.
Open World / Bounties	Strong	Strong on packed bounty camps; Yareli still leans on Operator / Archwing for the empty travel stretches while Sea Snares handles fights. Form five water globules that seek out enemies and expand on contact, simultaneously damaging and immobilizing their….
Long-Range Gunplay / Eidolon-Style Content	Weak	Yareli wants pack clear or finishers, not pure long-range; Sea Snares won’t save an Eidolon-style loadout. Form five water globules that seek out enemies and expand on contact, simultaneously damaging and immobilizing their….