Kuva Hek

The Kuva Hek is the Kuva variant of the shotgun, with boosts to its critical chance and falloff range, along with its damage, critical multiplier, and status chance surpassing the . It has the unique ability to fire all four barrels simultaneously via Alternate Fire.
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals primarily damage.
*Alternate Fire shoots four shots simultaneously.
**Builds meant to utilize the alternate fire benefit significantly from reload modding, such as () .
**Alternate Fire consumes 4 rounds of ammunition, effectively resulting in a 1-round magazine that prevents the alt fire from being used in tandem with the primary fire and must reload after every shot.
*Can use the -exclusive mod.
*Comes with an additional bonus , , , , , , or damage, based on the Kuva Lich's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.
**Valence Fusion can optionally change the resulting output damage type, and can upgrade the bonus increase (up to 60%).
*Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
*Listed Mastery Rank requirement is not enforced - the weapon may theoretically be obtained at any mastery rank by acquiring and vanquishing a Kuva Lich that has this weapon equipped.
==Acquisition==
==Notes==
*Alt fire cannot be used if there are less than 4 rounds in the magazine. Attempting to alt fire with less than 4 rounds will result in a reload instead.
**The four-round burst consumption is consistent even if mods increasing magazine capacity such as is equipped. It does allow the player to shoot extra rounds first before eventually using the alt-fire or, if is also equipped, two alt-fire bursts in sequence.
***If magazine capacity is decreased below 4 rounds (such as with a riven) then the alt fire becomes unusable.
**Alternatively, using grants four additional shots of the above two mods while only occupying one slot, resulting in an overall DPS increase by using the saved up slot for another damage-based mod.
**If the player is under an ammo-efficiency effect (such as Void Fuel or Energized Munitions), alt fire can be used with fewer than 4 rounds in the magazine. A reload is triggered when attempting to fire when consumption exceeds current magazine capacity.
==Tips==
*As with most weapons with the ability to unload an entire magazine in a single burst, the Kuva Hek's alt-fire synergizes well with 's short-tap bubble, as the quick torrent of shot can pulverize crowds of enemies caught in the bubble.
* grants the Kuva Hek twice the magazine capacity, allowing for two quick successions of its alt-fire and increasing the already powerful shotgun's overall DPS.
*As both firing modes have Semi Trigger Types, the Kuva Hek can equip both to increase damage and add Punch Through.
==Trivia==
*The Grineer text translates into MIS4TUNE (Misfortune).
==Bugs==
*Manually reloading after the alt fire will use a soundless Braton reload animation. 
==Media==
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File:Learn What The Kuva Hek is Going On, in Less than 3 Minutes
File:Learn What The Kuva Hek is Going On, in Less than 3 Minutes
==Patch History==
==See Also==
*, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
*, a syndicate variant of this weapon.
Category:Grineer
Category:Weapons
Category:Grineer Weapons
Category:Augmented Weapons
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