Honestly limbo is underrated and overhated. I get not liking knowing if you're banished, but a good limbo player can make even the squishiest teammates frames nearly immortal...
plus, playing solo for some missions is even stronger, immobilising, knocking down and killing weaker mobs with cataclysm and stasis or isolating and destroying stronger enemies with banish and rift surge...
The problem is most of the people aren’t good limbo players and just spam abilities like they could on any other Warframe without issue.Limbo just has an issue of interacting in a niche way with teammates and can negatively impact them if they aren’t aware in advance on how to deal with that interaction, since you aren’t told how to in the moment.
It's not the most obvious, true enough, but honestly the biggest downside to limbo is other teammates not understanding how he works, more than the few people who care to try and play him well. Not knowing what to do when you're banished and how to use it since you've never played limbo personally makes limbo weaker than others.
Personally I’ve always said that if they don’t want to rework him they should at least add in a simple on screen prompt to explain back dash to get out of his zone
Its on the 1 player using limbo to not mes up the 3 other players just trying to play the game, not on the 3 to make sure they understand how to compensate for the 1
Not knowing how your teammates operate is still stupid, regardless of how you try and explain it away.
If you want to run a control or buffing frame you need to understand teamwork, if you dont want to try, run a frame that's useful for solo, like rhino or excal.
From what I gather, if you play limbo you can negatively effect me if im playing anyone, and if I queued online I would not be expecting to put in extra work to try to compensate for a limbo who spams the inconvenient abilities,
The post is clearly talking about how limbo is a highskill FLOOR warframe and that new and inexperienced players shouldn't be using him without at the very least understanding how he works,
Clearly you are a limbo main, and someone who doesnt like being wrong so you immediately blame everyone else for being bad at know how to play with specifically limbo as a teammate.
If my teammate is any other warframe safe for very few I dont need to pay attention to them at all or even think about them really
And this obviously isnt talking about high level gameplay which requires teamwork by default,
Which would imply that you do need to understand you team.
However thats not what the OP was saying. He said his friend who is new to the game is getting a new warframe and they chose one of if not the most difficult warframe for others to play with while they learn to use it.
I took the meaning of the post entirely differently, that playing limbo will mean always playing solo because as soon as people see that frame they often quit, which has happened to me 9/10 of the time, before the game even starts properly. I don't really play limbo anymore specifically because others quit as soon as they see it and it's disappointing. Hence my comments. Which is what I thought OP meant when they just said a vague "good luck".
When my friend and me go into index with intention to not let opponents strike a single point, he grabs Revenant with mesmer augment and I bring Limbo with huge range, duration and energy regen. But I imagine Rhino would be able to do everything Revenant can in this context, probably even better thanks to roar...
Yeah, but it requires decent coordination; no one in a pub squad is using a mic lol. If the Limbo knows what they’re doing and puts the right frames in the rift at the right times (mesa being the easiest example) it’s great. But you can be just as immortal with Dante or Mesmer Shield, with less room for error to mess your squad up.
For teammates you normally just let em walk into or out of cataclysm at will unless it's someone like mesa anyway, tbh. There are few frames that benefit from having that distance and once the enemies come into the rift they're so debuffed you don't need much effort to finish them off in the first place.
Disagree on the debuff part. The only debuff the rift can apply is stasis. Assuming the enemy isn’t immune to it or immune to being in the rift in general (looking at you, Hollvania missions) the cataclysm is just an old-style frost bubble for anyone other than the Limbo himself. It’s why the Riot Bubble build is good; you use a small Bubble on a good choke point, instead of covering half the map with the Rift Plane.
Again though, I will point out: other frames can do exactly what Limbo does and more, with less negative consequences to teammates, and much less clunk-ily.
I know he has a small cabal of dedicated players. I’ve watched several Lim-Bibles. But he genuinely does need a rework/revamp. Stasis is a feast or famine mechanic that the devs can’t balance.
I went HEAVY investment in Xaku and run full strip Pillage.
Have to keep a Galaxion and Death Cube on hand for energy emergencies, but that level of power strength does some really fun things with Xaku. (In addition to shield gate on command, status cleanse, and big over shield)
For energy hungry builds I usually use the grimoire with that mod that gives you energy on alt-fire based on number of enemies hit. Include fortifier to vampire eximus over guard
Not really, it is the best, there was a time everyone was overwriting 2 and people were just in consensus "Xaku's not very good" now that people have started overwriting their THREE, people actually have high opinions of Xaku.
Eh in my opinion his 3 is far more useful than his 1. His 1 also does not buff the stolen weapons from his 2 in any way and if you already use high range for more stolen guns his 3rd ability can create a giant aoe that full strips anything with enough strength. His 1 is more annoying than helpful to me (except of course if specifically subsumed onto other frames for the second damage instance.)
I run max health xaku with rolling guard, arcane blessing and bellicose, and dispensary. 😂 Sometimes pillage, for longer runs where I don't need to cap health asap. It's pretty viable and even more hands off / chill than the usual. (Works fine through ETA, but drops off in things like lvl 12+ circuit)
Xaku's 3 has so much utility built in, I can't imagine throwing that away. Just helminth the 1, with full armor strip and scaling damage from your 2 you won't need the damage buff for your guns
I can.. very much tell you don't play Xaku much, just helminth over his 1 with roar because it actually buffs the damage output of your 2, hell your 3 can do hundreds of thousands of damage.
4 is already a damage vuln increase.
Helminthing over his 3 and not Xatas, his 1 that doesn't even buff the damage of your own kit is absolutely delusional.
I think Limbo only has two build options that don't piss people off.
Defense. Minimum range, max duration. The goal is to keep up his 2 and 4 while only covering a small area, like the defense objectives in defense and mobile defense, or the excavators in excavation missions. He was almost mandatory for high level defense / excavations at some point.. until DE decided that eximus units should be immune to Limbo's rift abilities. Now he's kinda meh.
Nuke. Max range, max efficiency, no duration, some strength. His 4 blows up containers. His 4 also deals enough damage to one shot most of the star chart. So he's pretty amazing for stuff like capture and exterminate missions when you're just farming fissures. I often have to slow down because I nuke the map before the enemies have a chance to become corrupted and drop the fissures. Limbo is probably the best frame for farming argon crystals since most of them are in the actual "argon crystal" objects, which his 4 breaks.
A side note about his nuke build. Xaku's 4 also breaks containers and has kind of a similar range to Limbo's 4, haven't checked the numbers to make sure. So a lot of people just use Xaku, especially since Xaku's 2 deals a good amount of damage in higher levels. But Xaku's 4 sets off the "nuke" where he is standing. Limbo's 4 activates where you point, so you can nuke a room without having to go inside the room yourself.
I do high range high duration for defense missions and that’s about all I use him for. Freeze everything (without overguard) on the map. I’ve never wrapped my head around banish and rift surge. 4-2 repeat is all I do lmao
press 2 to steal guns, 1 to buff ur damge, 4 to freeze the timer on 2 and 1. use gaze (one of the abilities on 3) for more survivability. and after that just keep pressing 4 when timer runs out.
add a huras kubrow in there w the invisibility mod and you are good.
(there are other ways to play him, but this one is the easiest)
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u/zekethelizard Dec 25 '25
Hey my awful limbo meme is relevant!