Riven Challenge Guide

This guide lists easy and efficient ways to complete all riven challenges without the help of another player. This guide assumes you are in at least mid-game with some knowledge of the game and various warframes and weapons at your disposal.

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Kill X Enemies While Sliding

Kills don't have to be done in a single slide unless it specifically says so.

This challenge is pretty straight forward, but Nehza has the most base slide if you want more slide.

Nezha Innate Slide and Warding Halo

The power strength mods are optional, and are there if you want to cast Warding Halo for more survivability. The +sprint mods are also optional.

Get Killing Blow On X Sentients

Battalysts, Conculys, and Mimics

This is pretty straight forward. The sentients will adapt to damage, so bringing a high damaging warframe and weapons is a good idea.

Suggested Missions

• Lua Plato Exterminate
  
• Lua Tycho Survival - The sentients will spawn every 5 minutes

Mesa Regulators And Shatter Shield

There are a lot of viable ways to do this challenge, but with Mesa you won't need multiple weapons, only her Regulators. The build is designed for both Regulators and a nice duration on Shatter Shield for 95% bullet damage reduction. If you don't like Quick Thinking, you can replace it with Vitality.

Vomvalysts

Vulnerable to amp damage and void dash

Location

Plains of Eidolon

Find X Caches

This is a straightforward challenge, but to speed up the process, speed running warframes can do the trick.

Suggested Missions

• Any sabotage

Nova Worm Hole Build

This is a pure teleport build for nova. Molecular Prime will be useless, but Worm Hole will travel the maximum allowed at 140 meters. If you don't like Quick Thinking, you can replace it with Vitality.

Nova Molecular Prime/Worm Hole Hybrid Build

This is a Molecular Prime/Worm Hole hybrid build if you want to use Molecular Prime. Worm Hole will travel 72.5 meters. If you don't like Quick Thinking, you can replace it with Vitality.

Volt Speed Build

This is a very fast build. If you want less speed, then swap Transient Fortitude for Primed Continuity. If you want more energy efficiency then replace Blind Rage with Prime Continuity.

Zephyr Turbulence And Tailwind Build

With the augment mod, Jet Stream, Turbulence gives a +40% movement speed. The speed buff is affected by power strength. Cast Tailwind to take flight.

Nezha Fire Walker And +Slide Build

Casting Fire Walker will give a +25% movement speed buff. While sprinting tap crouch, then roll for big speed boosts. Caution: Floor is very slippery and will take practice to get used to.

Synthesize A Simaris Target Without Using Traps Or Abilities

This challenge is more complicated with the modifier: Without Taking Any Damage. The description is misleading. Abilities are allowed, but only if they are casted very far away from the target.

Rhino Iron Skin Build

Iron Skin is perfect because damage toward the skin will not count against you. Just cast Iron Skin at the beginning of the mission and it should last for the duration of the mission.

Get X Kills In A Row While Wall Dashing Or Wall Clinging Without Touching The Floor

Loki

Loki has a wall latch passive that allows him to latch for a whopping 60 seconds. You can also equip these mods for even more latch time, if needed.

Suggested Mission

• Sanctuary Onslaught/Elite Sanctuary Onslaught - Enemies are very dense in these missions.
  
• Eris, Akkad - All the infested will funnel toward the defense objective and group up nicely.

Suggested Weapons

Any area damage weapon

• Amprex
  
• Ignis Wraith
  
• Lenz
  
• Zarr
  
• Secura Penta
  
• Corinth
  
• Sobek
  
• Astilla
  
• Arca Plasmor
  
• Phantasma
  
• Pox
  
• Kulstar
  
• Sonicor
  
• Atomos
  
• Pyrana Prime
  
• Staticor

For builds check out my other guide, Best Weapons In The Game!

Ember World On Fire Or Equinox Maim (Day Form)

Ember and Equinox don't need weapons to score kills. Just cast their abilities and wall latch!

Suggested Missions

• Venus, Tessera
  
• Mars, Spear
  
• Ceres, Casta/Seimeni
  

Find X Syndicate Medallions

How To Find Medallions

The little squares, on the map UI, represent containers, Cephalon Fragments, Soma Fragments, and Medallions. What most people do is destroy them all to eliminate all possibilities, until a square that represents a Medallion is found. To destroy cannisters quickly, it is recommended to use an area damage weapon such as: Ignis (Wraith) modded for punch through, Atterax, Secura Lecta, Orthos Prime and Guando.

Mods That Help in Finding Medallions

These mods help you see the squares on the map farther, with all three totaling +102 meters.

Sustain A 3x Melee Combo Multiplier For 30 Seconds

This is straight forward, but here are things that can make it easier and/or faster. Using all of the following will be overkill, however.

Suggested Missions

• Sanctuary Onslaught/Elite Sanctuary Onslaught
  
• Sedna, Selkie Survival
  
• Kuva Fortress, Taveuni Survival (build up on regular enemies and/or sentry turrets)
  
• Mars, War Assassination (Build up multiplier on Lt Lech Kril)
  
• Saturn, Tethys Assassination (Build up multiplier on General Sargas Ruk)

Rhino Iron Skin

If you are having energy issues, replace Augur Secrets and/or Iron Shrapnel with Fleeting Expertise and/or Streamline.

Valkyrie Hysteria And War Cry

This is specifically for Lt Lech Kril and General Sargas Ruk because inevitably Valkyrie does good damage against enemies. Lt Lech Kril and General Sargas Ruk are mostly invincible, so doing damage against them won't matter.

Venka Prime

Venka Prime has special properties which allow it to reach 3x multiplier faster than normal weapons. Instead of taking the normal 135 consecutive hits, Venka Prime only takes 45. I have outfitted it with Relentless Combination which will proc a consecutive hit with each slash proc. It literally will only take 10 seconds to reach 3x+ multiplier. Note that the slash procs will not work on Lt Lech Kril or General Sargas Ruk.

Tipedo

Besides Venka Prime, any weapon with fast attack speed preferably with predominantly slash will do. Tipedo is a good example, though is not the only example. This build will fit on any slash weapons. Note that the slash procs will not work on Lt Lech Kril or General Sargas Ruk.

Extinguished Dragon Key (Optional)

Equipping an Extinguished Dragon Key will lower dps by 75% allowing more strikes before an enemy dies. Irrelevant for Lt Lech Kril or General Sargas Ruk.

Naramon Power Spike

With Naramon Power Spike, melee combo counter will depreciate instead of going straight to 0 after combo duration runs out.

Complete A Survival Mission With Level 30 Or Higher Enemies Without Killing Anyone

All Survival Missions With Level 30 Or Higher Enemies

• Sedna, Selkie (Grineer)
  
• Sedna, Amarna (Infested)
  
• Eris, Zabala (Infested)
  
• Eris, Nimus (Infested)
  
• Kuva Fortress, Taveuni (Grineer)
  
• Neptune, Palus (Corpus)
  
• Void, MOT (Corrupted)

Invisibility Strategy

This is straight forward, but to get life support drop, you can run around destroying cannisters and opening up lockers. An invisible warframe might be helpful.

Loki Invisibility

Octavia Metronome (Cloak)

Ash Smoke Screen

Ivara Prowl and Quiver (Dash Wire)

Pickpocket enemies for additional life support drops. Use Quiver (Dash Wire) to get around.

Alternate Strategy: Excalibur Umbra

Excalibur Umbra will fight for you while in operator mode. The kills he gets do not count toward the riven challenge. Excalibur Umbra will mostly use equipped weapons to score kills, so make sure to equip a good weapon on him. Excalibur Umbra does not require any mods for this challenge, since he will do damage primarily with his weapons. Avoid taking damage in operator mode, by going into void mode. Zenurik's Void Flow, Void Siphon, and Team Energy Restores will help, but are not required.

Complete An Extermination Mission With Level 30 Or Higher Enemies Without Being Detected

This is pretty straight forward. We can use invisible warframes to remain undetected.

Loki Invisibility

Octavia Metronome (Cloak)

Ash Smoke Screen

Complete A Defense Mission With Level 30 Or Higher Enemies Without The Defense Objective Taking Any Damage

Crowd Control Strategy

Warframes with hard crowd control might be a good idea for this challenge.

Suggested Mission

• Pluto, Sechura
  
• Eris Akkad

It will be easier to deal with infested since they have the least amount of projectiles out of all the factions.

Vauban Bastille

Limbo Cataclysm and Stasis

Khora Strangledome

Nuke Strategy

Or you could just simply nuke the whole map before they can get anywhere near the defense objective.

Suggested Mission

• Sedna, Hydron

Saryn Miasma

Just spam 4 for the win. Just make sure enemies aren't able to get within line of sight of the defense objective.

This Challenge Is Complicated By The Modifier: Without Using Energy Restores.

Alternate Sources of Energy:

• Sahasa Kubrow - with mod, Dig, Sahasa kubrow will periodically dig 3 energy orbs from the ground.
  
• Zenurik's Energizing Dash
  
• Arcane Energize
  
• Dethcube - with mod, Energy Generator, Dethcube will drop an energy orb after assisting in 10 kills.

Complete A Solo Interception Mission With Level 30 Or Higher Enemies With A Hobbled Dragon Key Equipped

Bullet Jumping Lessens The Effects Of The Hobbled Dragon Key.

Suggested Missions

• Eris Xini
  
• Void Mithra - Note that nullifier Crewman will spawn and nullify crowd control abilities, so this map may not be a good choice for warframes focused on crowd control. Also cap point D visibility is blocked by a door which can cause some issue.
  
• Pluto Cerberus - Note that nullifier Crewman will spawn and nullify crowd control abilities, so this map may not be a good choice for warframes focused on crowd control.

Vauban Bastille For Eris Xini

Just cast Bastille on all the points. The Bastille will last about 30 seconds.

Banshee Quake For Eris Xini

Note that Quake crowd control can only reach points A, B, D, and not C.

Rhino Stomp For Eris Xini

Stomp will provide good hard crowd control, but will only last 12.56 seconds.

Nova Molecular Prime and Worm Hole Hybrid

You'll be able to teleport places as well as slow enemies by 75%. If you don't like Quick Thinking, it can be replaced with Vitality.

Nova Worm Hole

Worm Hole will teleport you a whole 140 meters so you can teleport to each point quickly. However, Molecular Prime will be useless. If you don't like Quick Thinking, it can be replaced with Vitality.

Ash Teleport

Ash will teleport to an enemy of up to 168 meters away. However, there needs to be an enemy present and that might not always be the case.

Kill X Enemies With Finishers

There Are Several Warframes That Open Enemies Up To Finishers, Without Having The Need To Sneak Up On Them.

Equinox Rest (Night Form)

Cast Metamorphosis to turn into Night Form. Then cast Rest at enemies. Enemies will then be open up to finishers.

Excalibur Radial Blind/Howl

Excalibur (Prime) might be better than Excalibur Umbra, because we will not be using Umbra Mods. Casting Radial Blind/Howl at enemies will open them up to finishers. Note that the flash will only blind enemies if they are within line of sight.

Ivara Quiver (Sleep Arrow)

Hold the keyboard key for Quiver to select sleep arrow. Cast Quiver on enemies to open them up to finishers.

Mirage Prism

Cast Prism, then cast it again to detonate the Prism. The explosion will blind enemies and open them up to finishers. Note that the explosion will only blind enemies if they are within line of sight.

Suggested Weapons - Fast Attack Speed

Weapons with fast attack speed have faster finisher animations.
Examples:

• Ceramic Dagger
  
• Prisma Obex
  
• Glaive Prime
  
• Tipedo

Get 3 Headshot Kills In A Single Aim Glide

Kubrow Den Strategy

Equip a weapon with innate punch through or with a punch through mod such as Shred or Metal Auger. We're going to CC a Kubrow Den. The Kubrows will spawn in the den CC'd and still. Wait for 3 Kubrows to spawn and score 3 headshots with only 1 shot. If not enough Kubrows spawn, you can strike the den with an unmodded melee weapon to get the Kubrows to spawn.

Suggested Missions

• Earth, Mantle Capture
  
• Earth, E Prime Exterminate

Vauban Bastille

Alternate Strategy 1

Suggested Mission

• Earth Coba - I pick this mission for several reasons. I find it easier to score three headshots if enemies are nicely lined up single-file. This is an infested defense mission. Infested always run straight toward the defense objective. Other factions tend to spread out and prevent a single-file formation. It is also a low level mission which ensures that enemies are one-shotted.

Equinox Rest (Night Form)

Cast Metamorphosis to turn into Night Form. Then cast Rest at enemies.

Ivara Quiver (Sleep Arrow)

Hold the keyboard key for Quiver to select sleep arrow. Cast Quiver on enemies.

Vauban Bastille

Suggested Weapons - Any Weapon With Hit-scan, Fast Fire Rate, High Accuracy, And Low Recoil

• Tiberon Prime (Auto-Fire Mode)
  
• Baza
  
• Soma Prime
  
• Quanta Vandal
  
• Akstiletto Prime

Builds are in my other guide, Best Weapons In The Game!

Alternate Strategy 2: Pax Seeker

A nifty arcane, Pax Seeker, can be equipped on any kitgun and upon scoring a headshot kill, projectiles will seek the heads of nearby enemies. A rank 1 or above Pax Seeker will be required, though of course higher ranks will make this challenge easier. Any kitgun will do, but particularly kits guns with chambers, Gaze and Rattleguts, are easier to score headshots with as they are accurate and hitscan. Zephyr for her innate glide equipped with mod, Patagium, for +glide will be useful.

Catch X Fish Without Missing A Throw

Luminos Dye

Luminos Dye can be bought from Fisher Hai-Luk in Cetus. It will highlight the fish for you. Large Fish are easier to catch.

Particularly Easy Spot

• Orb Vallis

At the southeastern most area on the map, there are two caves. The smaller of the caves houses a nice enclosed fishing pond. The fish will spawn very close to you for easy catches.

How To Stun Fish

Whenever you catch one fish, the Shockprod Fishing Spear will stun other nearby fish in a nice radius. The Shockprod can be bought in Fortuna from The Business for 500 standing.

Catch One Fish, Mine One Gem Or Metal, And Kill One Enemy In 30 seconds

Any Order Will Suffice, But It Might Be A Good Idea To Find An Enemy Location, A Gem/Metal Location, And Set A Luminos Dye In Close Vicinity Before Starting.

Suggested Locations

Enemies tend to spawn near this lake.

Luminos Dye

Luminos Dye can be bought from Fisher Hai-Luk in Cetus. It will highlight the fish for you.

This Challenge Is Complicated By The Modifier: Kill An Unalerted Enemy. Therefor An Invisible Warframe Will Help.

Loki Invisibility

Octavia Metronome (Cloak)

Ash Smoke Screen

Kill X Wild Animals With A Fishing Spear

Wild Animals, Condrocs and Kuakas

Location

The Kuakas (rodents) spawn randomly all over the map, but the Condracs (birds) have a chance of spawning around the lake in the picture. Sometimes they do not spawn, so you might have to reload the map or wait for them to spawn. This location is good for Kuakas as well.

Kuakas are small and can be hard to spot. Helios scans and highlights them for you.

Most important mod is Investigator.

Hard Crowd Control Abilities Give You Time To Aim.

Equinox Rest (Night Form)

Cast Metamorphosis to turn into Night Form. Then cast Rest at enemies.

Ivara Quiver (Sleep Arrow)

Hold the keyboard key for Quiver to select sleep arrow. Cast Quiver on enemies.

Vauban Bastille

Land X Consecutive Headshots While In Archwing Mode In The Plains Of Eidolon

Archwings can be shotdown. However, Ameesha and Itzal have effective abilities to avoid being damaged.

Odonata can cast a protective shield but it inconveniently only protects one side.

Ameesha Watchful Swarm

Hyperion Thrusters is highly optional and unnecessary. Primed Morphic Transformer is optional and can be swapped for Morphic Transformer. Casting Watchful Swarm will cause drones to intercept all damage. When the drones run out, simply recast.

Itzal Penumbra and Blink

Hyperion Thrusters and Cold Snap are highly optional and unnecessary. Cast Penumbra to go invisible, but the caveat is you cannot move or you will lose the invisibility. Blink will teleport you if needed. Blink works while Penumbra is active.

Suggested Weapons - Snipers With Hit Scan Bullets

• Rubico (Prime)
  
• Vectis Prime
  
• Vulkar Wraith

Builds are in my other guide, Best Weapons In The Game!

This Challenge Is Complicated By A Shotgun Riven

The reason being is that the riven will have to be equipped on a shotgun forcing you to secondary only. Therefor, you won't be able to use a sniper rifle. You'll need a very accurate secondary with good base zoom and perhaps the mod Hawk Eye for +80% zoom.

Suggested weapons

• Lex Prime
  
• Akstiletto Prime
  
• Arca Scisco
  
• Akmagnus
  
• Sicarus Prime
  
• Twin Grakata

Shortcut During POE Night Cycle

Shooting the Eidolon even if doing no damage counts as a headshot.

Kill X Dargyn Pilots Before They Hit The Ground

Locations

Plains of Eidolon - They often spawn during bounties.

They sometimes spawn randomly on the map on land next to their aircraft. If alerted, they will jump on their aircraft and start flying. However, these spawns are inconsistent.

After destroying the Dargyn Pilot's aircraft, the pilot will fall to the ground. You must kill him before he hits the ground.

Nova Molecular Prime

Nova's Molecular Prime could slow enemies for easier aiming.

Limbo Cataclysm and Stasis

Will provide crowd control in a huge area.

Using weapons with long range, hit-scan, fast fire rate, high accuracy, and low recoil should be very doable.

• Baza
  
• Soma Prime
  
• Quanta Vandal
  
• Akstiletto Prime
  
• Twin Grakatas

Builds are in my other guide, Best Weapons In The Game!

This Challenge Is More Complicated By Modifier: While Sliding

Nova's Molecular Prime could slow enemies for easier aiming.

Nezha's long innate slide can also help. If you don't want too much speed during slide, you can unequip the +sprint mods.

Destroy X Dargyns With A Bow.

Suggested Mission

• Kuva Fortress Koro

After inserting the Moltecoil, Dargyns will spawn to the left and right.

Suggested Bows If You Are Bad At Aiming (Faster Fire Rate)

• Zhuge (Automatic Crossbow)
  
• Rakta Cernos

Builds are in my other guide, Best Weapons In The Game!

Suggested Warframe If You Are Bad At Aiming (Crowd Control)

Just cast Cataclysm and Stasis.

Kill X Enemies That Are On A Dropship

Location

Orb Vallis - A dropship will spawn near the gate shortly after entering Orb Vallis.

Location

Plains of Eidolon - Dropships often spawn during bounties

If you destroy the dropship, it will kill all enemies it is carrying, so kill them before they make their drop off! Beware that in higher level bounties, the dropships become very tanky.

Complete An Incursion

Go straight into the Plains of Eidolon during the day (without queuing a bounty). A random mission will pop up. Simply enter the yellow zone to start the incursion.

Destroy X Vruush Turrets While In Archwing

Locations

Plains of Eidolon - These turrets spawn in large grineer bases.

These turrets will try to shoot you down. Ameesha and Itzal will help avoid this.

Ameesha Watchful Swarm

Hyperion Thrusters is highly optional and unnecessary. Primed Morphic Transformer is optional and can be swapped for Morphic Transformer. Casting Watchful Swarm will cause drones to intercept all damage. When the drones run out, simply recast.

Itzal Penumbra and Blink

Hyperion Thrusters and Cold Snap are highly optional and unnecessary. Cast Penumbra to go invisible, but the caveat is you cannot move or you will lose the invisibility. Blink will teleport you if needed. Blink works while Penumbra is active.

Suggested Weapons - Snipers

• Lanka
  
• Rubico (Prime)
  
• Vectis Prime
  
• Vulkar Wraith

Snipers are optional, but be mindful that non-sniper weapons are limited to 300 meters. Builds are in my other guide, Best Weapons In The Game!

Kill 3 Airborne Condrocs Within 5 seconds

4-5 Condracs are always flying above the large grineer camp west of the Plains entrance. Suggested weapons to use are any weapon with long range and high accuracy. If using an archwing, Itzal and Ameesha are recommended because turrets will attempt to shoot you down.

Alternate Strategy

Condracs spawn in 3's and have a chance to spawn around the lake in the picture. If you don't see any, you might have to reload the map or wait for them to spawn. Condracs spawn grounded on land. To get them flying, you have to alert them. You'll want to alert them first to get them flying before killing them.

Ash Blade Storm

You'll want to be careful not to alert them at first. Cast Blade Storm and target all three Condracs. Once that's done, run toward them to alert them. Once they are airborne cast Blade Storm again so that Ash's clones immediately kill them. Beware that Blade Storm is sometimes buggy and will not activate. Activating Blade Storm and letting it stay active upon entering Plains to make sure it works might be a good idea. Ash is the easiest to pull off because you won't have to worry about them flying too far off as long as you kill them within 5 seconds.

Kill X Unalerted Tusk Ballistas With A Headshot

Tusk Ballista

Location

Plains of Eidolon - They spawn in towers. Location of towers are indicated on the map above.

Itzal Penumbra and Blink (Optional)

Hyperion Thrusters and Cold Snap are highly optional and unnecessary. Cast Penumbra to go invisible, but the caveat is you cannot move or you will lose the invisibility. Blink will teleport you if needed. Blink works while Penumbra is active.

Suggested Weapons - Snipers With Hit Scan Bullets

• Rubico (Prime)
  
• Vectis Prime
  
• Vulkar Wraith

Builds are in my other guide, Best Weapons In The Game!

Optional Mod

Husk Ballistas usually spawn in 2's in the towers. With the Hush mod, shooting the first Ballista has a lower chance of alerting the second Ballista.

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[ThePHiLsTeR [¬º-°]¬]

You're Welcome!!!!

[Rockyandmax]

Thanks this helped a lot :)

[Move Your Body]

Oh, I understood. Thanks, mate

[ThePHiLsTeR [¬º-°]¬]

I believe its because Grattler has disposition 1 and kuva gratler .5. Your riven shows stats as if it were to be equipped on regular grattler. Then when you install on kuva gratler, the stats get halved.

Your friend's riven shows stats on it as if it were installed on a kuva bramma because there are no other variants of bramma, only kuva bramma.

[Move Your Body]

So, Grattler kuva has 0.5 diposition, and get halved, I get it. But, my friend has rift mod on Kuva Bramma, that has 0.6 disposition, and his stats is normal, like his disposition is 1. How to call that?

[ThePHiLsTeR [¬º-°]¬]

Because each weapon has a different disposition. Disposition decreases or increases the base stats. https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Riven_Mods/Weapon_Dispos/Melee

[Move Your Body]

Why do my Rift mods have their equip stats halved?

[ThePHiLsTeR [¬º-°]¬]

@Miyuji There's a section for that challenge. Take a look. You can use rhino iron skin. The damage toward the skin doesn't count as damage for the challenge.

[not Miyuji]

and I wonder can I use The Dreamer or any artillery support?

[not Miyuji]

Synthecize a target "without taking damage", using trap, using ability, and equip hobble dragon key at the same time
anyone know how to do this?