How Lavos Alchemized Warframe

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The Alchemist Lavos, guided by his snakes creates devastating potions of elemental power! Today we explore the lore and history of Lavos in Warframe, maybe this alchemist has something up his sleeve, and maybe he has something interesting... to offer.
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NOTE: Sections of this video were inspired by Triburos' Lavos video from a few years ago, I have no intentions of infringement.
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0:00 - 0:48 UmbraGuides
0:48 - 1:25 Alchemist Frame
1:25 - 4:49 Previews
4:49 - 8:23 Lore
8:23 - 10:52 Release
10:52 - 14:29 2021 Buffs & Updates
14:29 - 21:14 - Passive & Abilities
21:14 - 25:19 Cedo & Synergies
25:19 -27:10 Mecha Lavos
27:10 - 27:41 Conclusion
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Spark The Electric Jester 3 - Terminal Village Doublemoon Villa
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VA11-HALL-A - Who Was I?
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This video is NOT about any endgame or high endurance and level cap strategies. I base my review and points off of how the frame performs in the GENERAL META and 90% of the game throughout the years.
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[NovaUmbral]

My 2nd channel :)
EDIT: Mecha set can't be used on charger, I forgot to double check in game, apologies.
EDIT 2: Very minor but the time was flipped, its 12/15 not 15/12 for mecha set.

[Yggdraseed]

Snakes are associated with real world alchemy, too. Their ability to shed their skin has been taken as a symbol of transformation and renewal in a lot of different cultures, as is the way their venom can be used to create antitoxin. And you can look at the serpent wrapped around the staff of Asclepius or the cobra headdress that symbolized a pharaoh's divinity in ancient Egypt to see other mystical or medicinal connotations. Not to mention the symbolism of the ourobouros, the snake that devours its own tail. Honestly, snakes would be my first pick for an animal to represent alchemy.

[projetoprojetado]

As a Lavos main, i had a lot of fun watching the video, and even learned some things i hadn't realised yet. Overall a very nice job, Nova! Truly, most people just dismiss Lavos and doesn't know his potential as a dmg frame. Now that being said, i think it's time to build some aditional copies of him. This gave me some fun build ideas.

[gebcrafter]

Lavos is an extremely close second to me as a 'main' its just so insane how much survivability and AOE you can get. While its not a huge area, the heat procs at the hundreds of thousands are all I need to see. The ability to enable ammo-dependent weapons is just icing on the cake

[Zvuli]

Dude is just cool. Valence Formation ties his kit together really well now and he functions as a weapons platform with more tools than just numeric buffs.

He could definitely use a QOL pass and some small number tweaks, but he’s far from garbage.

[gamingbean]

I've always loved how Lavos plays. He's so much fun when you get that rotation figured out. Especially with the alt fire of Cedo mixed in. Just an absolute monster. I do wish he'd get some more skins though. Either official or tennogen. (actually I could say that thing about skins for a lot of frames that I really like.)

[AnymMusic]

even without the Leverian, snakes have always made sense to me in context of an alchemist. Like far away in the woods an alchemist sits surrounded by nature. Having serpents seemed logical

[OldeVikingOriginal]

Of course, no energy makes sense.
He transmutes his abilities out of nothing, he probably has a philosophers stone in there somewhere.
That's how an alchemist do.

[Sephiroth]

The status rework and valence formation made him a monster

[Adex]

Lavos plus Viral Tempest in place of cold element…chefs kiss. Thematically fitting too imo (I consider Lavos the War Crimes frame)

[LunarRoses]

This was the first frame I used a Umbral Forma on. He's got a really fun learning curve and I enjoy how he feels like a "traditional" MMO character in terms of managing cooldowns and damage that he can put it out and his rotations for throwing abilities. Easily one of my top 3 frames in game super great job

[BZUltimix]

Lavos is one of the best new frames to be released (Mid 2022). I do love his kit & even more so with his signature weapon, I just wish Chroma got the same love...

[coneuman]

Really been loving lavos since I got him a few weeks ago. Haven’t put in the heaviest investment just yet, but man is he fun and pretty comfy in higher level stuff, and a go-to pick when I do sp survival farms and such and feel like playing a caster. Great overview of him, A frame I’ve really been loving learning about, the fella really does feel unique

[RBRSC]

The learning curves not that rough, I remember a dude picked him in the Steel Circuit once, said in chat he'd never used him, and by the end of 10 rounds was dominating lol. (And all I really told him was just to infuse Viral on every ability, then he one upped me by tipping me off that you could just hold the two elements to combine at once rather then doing one the other, tmyk, lol)

His tankiness really shouldn't be undersold either. He won't hit the hyperbolic amounts of doublestack or triple stacking DR gates, but he can just chill in Archon Hunts or SP Kuva fortress or Copernicus pretty easily with an Arcane Grace and Adapation. With an occasional top off from his 1. Absolutely not caring about Energy also gives him a second arcane slot (which would usually be tapped for Energize or Steadfast) and he can pick up more silly damage from Madurai or go melee with Naramon. (You could argue Unairu for defense strip, but his ability to just dump status basically makes that unneeded unless you're facing status immune enemies (like the Plague Star Hemocyte)

(I wouldn't really go for Arcane Blessing though, as Lavos only improves orbs, he doesn't make them. Though you can run with a companion to try and cover it)

The Leverian does have odd contradictions in its lore though, such as Lavos being given his matter-rearranging power AFTER already being a Warframe. Outside of lore Reworks aside thats generally not how it works, and replications of the Warframe would be absent that additional power. With a hefty dose of unreliable narrator involved, it'd follow a more likely path that Lavos is Yavi and was converted into a Warframe, but the residual presence was able to affect his presentation. And the rest is just distorted myth.

[ivbenjaminart]

As a LoL and FFXIV player (where rotation's and skill management matters) Lavos really clicked for me and immediately became my main. I couldnt understand why he wasnt used as much as other frames despite being very strong and after seeing this video now I understand why haha.

Great work! This actually helped me become a better Lavos player

[Nyktipolos]

The idea that without the Laverian stuff the snakes would be "random" on the alchemist Warframe is insane, but I understand if Lavos being a Warframe depiction of Hermes Trismegistus is something you missed.

[indecisivecountdooku]

Lavos is able to mass-produce universal ammo...

Which means he can use archguns forever, very fun.

[Stannard]

New drinking game discovered, take a shot everytime he says Layvoes instead of Lavos.

[Xedlord]

Gotta be my favorite frame in the game, makes me wish there were more like him.

[aetherian]

I finally picked up lavos a couple days ago and honestly he's quickly becoming one of my all time favorites, only really beaten out by gauss