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Wearing heavy armor and adorned in red cloth, the fearsome Kuva Guardians are among the fighting elite in the Queens' army. These imposing female warriors' size belies their uncanny, lightning-like agility, which they will employ to surround their enemies and bring even the Tenno to their knees with just a few well-placed blows. They are followed around by mischievous Jester-like creatures that are quick to attack and are quite deadly.[1]
At least one pair of Kuva Guardians and Jesters will spawn in to protect Kuva Siphons.
Mechanics[]
The Guardians' Kuva-infused 
Kesheg makes them immune to any conventional type of damage or crowd control as long as they are holding it. To be able to damage them, the player must utilize their Void powers to disarm them:
- Switch to Operator mode by using Transference (default 5 ).
- Use Void Sling (holding crouch Ctrl and pressing jump Space , or pressing jump Space while in midair).
This will force the Kesheg out of the Guardian's hands, consequently making them vulnerable to all sources of damage. However they will pull out their devastating 
Twin Rogga pistols to keep up the attack. If given enough time they will pick their Kesheg back up and become invulnerable again.
Notes[]
- Kuva Guardian are able to continuously fire their
![TwinRogga](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
Twin Roggas, despite their single-shot flintlock design. - Kuva Guardians are resistant to most status effects.
- After receiving a Puncture, Slash, Heat. Cold, Toxin, Radiation, Viral, or Corrosive status effect, Kuva Guardians will become immune to that status effect for 10 seconds.
- Most status effects have reduced duration against Kuva Guardians.
- Puncture, Slash, Heat, Cold, Toxin, and Viral status effects have their duration reduced to 2 seconds.
- Radiation status effect has its duration reduced to 3 seconds.
- Corrosive status effect has its duration reduced to 5 seconds.
- Electricity, Magnetic, and Blast status effects do not have reduced duration.
- Certain status effects have reduced damage against Kuva Guardians.
- After receiving a
- Kuva Guardians can not be drawn into the Rift Plane by any means; even if they are relieved of their Kesheg and enter a Cataclysm, they will not enter the Rift Plane.
Variants
| Demolisher Kuva Guardian | General | Drops | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Introduced | Update 25.7 (2019-08-29) | Mod Drops: Bane of Grineer 3.75% Cleanse Grineer 3.75% Expel Grineer 3.75% Smite Grineer 3.75%Other Drops: 50 Kuva 100% | |
| Mission | Tamu | |||
| Weapon | Kesheg Twin Rogga
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| Codex Scans | 20 | |||
| Statistics | ||||
| Cloned Flesh | 2500 | |||
 +  +  +++  ‐  ‐‐
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| Alloy Armor | 150 | |||
 + + +++ ‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐
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| Affinity | ??? | |||
- Possesses an innate 20% damage reduction.
Trivia[]
- Kuva Guardians are stylized to represent the elder of Twin Queens.
- The design of Kuva Guardians appears to take some influence from the Jomon era of Japan, with particular emphasis on Dogū figures.
- As with the Kuva Jesters, Kuva Guardians feature unique dialogue and voices not heard anywhere else throughout the Grineer line of common units.
- Prior to Update 22.17 (2018-03-28), players needed to first stagger Kuva Guardians using Void Blast, causing them to kneel, before they could disarm them with Void Dash.
- As of Update 26.0 (2019-10-31), Kuva Guardians oversee the prospects the Worm Queen choses for the Kuva Lich prospect, and will comment in English whenever a Kuva Larvling appears.
Patch History[]
Hotfix 31.0.3 (2021-12-17)
- Fixed scenario where Kuva Guardians can’t be disarmed via Void Dash.
Update 28.1 (2020-07-08)
- Fixed Kuva Guardians remaining vulnerable and not firing their Twin Roggas after picking up their Kesheg.
- Fixed a script error that could occur if a Kuva Guardian leapt at a target that died (or toggled back to Warframe) while in mid-air.
Hotfix 22.17.4 (2018-04-13)
- Kuva Guardians will now play their disarming animation properly, instead of having their Twin Rogga’s magically pop into their hands.
Update 22.17 (2018-03-28)
- Vulnerability Mechanic Change
As an overall change, Kuva Guardians are now easier to turn vulnerable but will become tougher to kill once they are.
- Previously vulnerability flow was
- Operator Void Blast to stun, then Void Dash when stunned to disarm their Kesheg and turn vulnerable.
- NEW vulnerability flow
- No stun state required. Operator Void Blast OR Void Dash to disarm their Kesheg and turn vulnerable.
- General Kuva Guardian Changes
- Increased base Health from 300 to 400.
- Slightly increased the Fire Rate of their Twin Rogga.
- Guardian Health type is now in line with the rest of Grineer.
- Weaker against Heat and Viral but more resistant to Gas.
- Added a pulsing red glow around Kuva Guardians for a few seconds to depict when they are vulnerable (similar to the Teralyst).
Update 20.1 (2017-04-05)
- Fixed Kuva Guardians sometimes appearing invisible in-mission.
Hotfix 19.11.5 (2017-02-28)
- Fixed the Kuva Guardians Knockdown animation not playing for Clients.
Hotfix 19.6.1 (2017-01-13)
- Fixed Kuva Guardian impact sounds not playing for the Host.
Update 19.3 (2016-12-06)
- Fixed Kuva Guardians getting stunlocked by Volt’s Overload while they are still armed.
Hotfix 19.0.7 (2016-11-22)
- Fixed the Kuva Guardians not possessing their same abilities from The War Within quest when attempting to fight them in a high level Kuva Siphon.
Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 24.2.7 (2018-01-09)
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92 comments
Kuva Fortress - Tamu for Demolisher Kuva Guardian codex scan.
Sukjekkt found.
I just tested every schools focus on lvl 100 in the Sim and none of the abilities disarm them anymore. tried slinging through them 20 times, still nothing. I really wish DE would stop changing game mechanics when nothing is wrong with them in the first place.
Rip kuva survival missions I guess til this gets figured out.
Try unpausing the ai and see what happens. This only happens if the ai is paused on the sim.
Tried in several Siphon missions this week and Sling works about 20% of the time.
Are Kuva Guardians able to be disarmed by void damage from Xaku’s first ability, Xata’s Whisper?
Dung eater
Sometimes these gals don't get status procced after you yeet their keg away. Using phantasma on them and a grand total of 0 status effects, happens inconsistently but very annoying when it does
They look like Sieg from Dark souls
Strange thing I noticed. We were doing a Kuva Flood mission on the Psamathe node on Neptune. Psamathe is the Assassination mission for the Hyena Pack.
We spawned the Kuva Siphon. While the rest of the team were doing the Siphon I split off and went ahead to kill the Hyenas, but 2 Kuva Guardians followed me all the way. Curious to see what would happen if I let the Kuva Guardians fight the Hyenas, I led them to each other and stood back. Unsurprisingly, the Kuva Guardians were not able to do a lot of damage to the boss-level Hyenas. But I was surprised when the Hyenas managed to actually kill the Kuva Guardians - and while they still had their Keshegs! It seems the Hyenas don't care about them being immune to damage while they are wielding their Keshegs, they just kill them anyways.
Haha thats a pretty dope find! good share yo! i gotta try this
I have that a kuva siphon in oro in earth like man wtf
i just want to know what they drop
Why can't I strip the Demolisher Kuva Guardian armor using Ash Seeking Shuriken? the shuriken seemed to strip their normal version just fine when they're staggered after void blast of course.
these things can damage ur warframe when ur in operator mode, so make sure to avoid the inital vertical slam they do then jump out of frame
She can't drop the Kesheg while under the effect of Magus Lockdown.
More specifically, you can disarm them with a Void Dash that also triggers Magus Lockdown, but NOT when they're already under the effect of Lockdown.
the kuva guardians are FEMALE??!!
No they were random why even they didnt know because of a clone mutation proxy was discovered by dr. tengus and well the grineer has diffrent mutations some of them were Fat (like kuva guardians) some of them thin (like the scorpions) some of them normal (like lancers) and also infact the Grineer was ancestors of warframe because once they were a soldiers that were found by orokin as a clone soldier to protect then they found a Warframe (which now as us) then they abondond which are know ass grineer well that is
They mad because of abondend ?
I thought the Guardians were fat because they were the Queens' favorites and thus got to eat from their scraps, which is probably more food than the rest of the Grineer get from their rations. Also I would hardly call the Grineer ancestors to Warframes since they were mass-cloned slave labor that were repurposed as cannon fodder soldiers during the Old War since it turns out the line between "weapon" and "tool" is a thin one indeed. Also they're mad because they've been pretty much treated like crap as a matter of principle for as long as they've existed.
How is that a surprise, do you play with audio muted or something?
Are these guys bugged? They seem to be immune to ALL status effect. This was observed in mission not in simulacrum.
Whats the drop chance of Orvius blade from Kuva Guardians?
Tells you on the page, 5%
they thicc
Damn boy she T H I C C
These seem bugged lately to not be affected by magus lockdown
Looks like the onion guy from darksouls
Want some soup?
Onyon Soup
Does anyone know if GrnHalberdRoyalGuard is their kesheg? Because I just got insta deathed with no guardian in sight, cetainly didn't slam me. I was host so no ping issues.
wait these things are female? holy crap, I've been thinking they were dudes the whole time
now that i think of it, they remind me of tumblr feminists: morbidly obese amputees witha violent hatred for anything that moves or breathes
What a weird thing to type...but i mean what ever you're into i guess. no judgement from me.
>they remind me of tumblr feminists: morbidly obese amputees witha violent hatred for anything that moves or breathes
kek
WHEEZE
Cringe and immortalized forever. couldnt be me.