Conclave:Hirudo

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Rip into the enemy with fists of razor sharp cartilage. Steals health with each critical hit.

The **Hirudo** are Infested sparring weapons derived from the Kogake which can steal health from enemies on critical hits.
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## Characteristics

**Advantages:**

* Second highest base damage of all sparring weapons, behind the Kogake Prime.
	+ High  damage – effective against armor.
* Good critical chance.
* Tied for highest critical damage multiplier for melee weapons with Atterax, Dual Cleavers (Prisma), Dual Ichor, Dual Raza and Dual Zoren.
* Innate lifesteal and health buff on critical hits.
* Stance slot comes with a File:Naramon Pol.svg polarity, matching {{#vardefine:Name|Brutal Tide}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found.
* Has a File:Madurai Pol.svg polarity.

**Disadvantages:**

* Low  and  damage – less effective against shields and health.
* Low status chance.
* Short range.

## Weapon Loadouts

* See Category:Conclave:Hirudo Build to see how players mod this weapon.
* See Category:Conclave:Hirudo Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
* For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.

## Notes

* Every successful critical hit with the Hirudo will return **5%** of damage dealt to the enemy as health to the player.
* Each successful critical hit also increases the player's max health by **5%**, referred to as **Invigorated** buff.
	+ The health bonus lasts for **15** seconds, which refreshes everytime the player lands another critical hit while the buff is active.
	+ The Invigorated buff can stack up to **5** times, for a maximum of **25%** additional health bonus.
* The Hirudo's max health bonus is scaled off of the Warframe's health at rank-0 and stacks additively with health mods like {{#vardefine:Name|Vitality}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found.
* Both of Hirudo's special abilities also work when using quick melee.
* Critical strike life steal bypasses sentient immunity.

## Tips

* Since it only requires Critical Hit to activate both abilities and it doesn't require to switch to melee and energy, mod with {{#vardefine:Name|True Steel}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found, {{#vardefine:Name|Blood Rush}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found or {{#vardefine:Name|Maiming Strike}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found to increase Critical Chance and any damage mods to increase lifesteal.
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	+ A fully ranked {{#vardefine:Name|Blood Rush}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found along with increased melee attack speed will easily allow one to heal faster than most enemies can deal damage.
* On most Warframes, a 25% base health buff is very insignificant. Inaros, however, would gain **27.5** health per stack, up to **137.5** at max.
* Using a warframe with higher armor values can help one stay alive while finding a target for the Hirudo's life steal.
* Using this weapon with either stance equipped as Inaros can make charge attacks quite effective, as landing a charge attack on an enemy who remains alive after it connects will instantly transition into a finisher, which will activate Inaros' passive to gain health on finishers.

## Trivia

* The Hirudo's name appears to be a bilingual pun in both Latin and Japanese;
	+ *Hirudo* is the Latin word for "leech".
	+ Its name may also be a portmanteau of the Japanese words *Hiru*(蛭)*,*which also means "leech", and *Do*(道, which may also be read separately as *Michi*), which can mean "way" or more loosely "doctrine", and can be found in the names of some Japanese martial arts (e.g. Kendo, Judo).

## Media

* InfestedThorns.pngHirudo in Codex.
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HIRUDO - Invincibility Trick Warframe
## Patch History

{{#vardefine:Update|Hotfix 19.5.1 }}{{#var:Update}}
* Fixed stance polarity for Hirudo and added an extra Madurai polarization.

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 19.5 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Item introduced.

## See also

* Secondary
* Melee
* Archwing
* Research
* Prime
* Sentinel

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