Warframe Tier List

This ranks all 65 base Warframes by how comfortably they carry Steel Path and endgame content — endurance survival, Deep Archimedea, Circuit and level-cap runs — assuming Helminth is unlocked but no exotic 8-Forma stat-sticks. We rank each frame once; a Prime is a straight upgrade to the same frame, not a separate entry, so Saryn and Saryn Prime share a slot. What earns S here is universal dominance: a kit that clears any mission without a bespoke build. Roles that only shine in one niche land lower even when they are genuinely strong there.

At the top, Dante, Saryn, Wisp, Mesa, Octavia and Protea define the meta — infinite scaling damage, squad-wide Overguard, or buffs that make everyone else optional, with Kullervo, Temple, Gauss and post-Prime Revenant right behind. The mid tiers are full of complete role players: Khora and Nekros own farming, Frost and Limbo lock down defense, Styanax hands new Tenno free Overguard. The bottom isn't 'unplayable' — after the Caliban and Yareli reworks Warframe has almost no dead frames — but paper-thin or dated kits like Banshee, Oberon, Nyx, Valkyr and Zephyr simply need more help than the rest to hold their own at level cap.

Warframe's meta is famously argued-over, and every rework or new augment reshuffles it. Think Chroma or Nidus is criminally underrated, or that a fresh frame like Sirius & Orion is already better than we've slotted it? Vote your placements and drag the roster into the shape you actually run.