Lato Prime

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Orokin Weapons Prime

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The Lato Prime is the Prime version of the Lato, featuring higher base damage, critical stats, and status chance. The Lato Prime is a Founders-exclusive weapon.

This weapon can be sold for 2,500‍ 2,500.

AcquisitionEdit

In the Global build of the game, the Lato Prime was only available to owners of the Grand Master Founders package that was offered between December 19^th 2012 and November 1^st, 2013.

In the Chinese build, anyone who purchased the 4,250 Platinum bundle during October 28^th 2016 also received the Lato Prime. (See Trivia)

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals primarily Slash damage.

Advantages

• High base damage.
  • High Slash damage – effective against health.
• Tied with Spira, Spira Prime, Euphona Prime, and Pandero for the second highest critical chance of all secondaries, behind Akbolto Prime.
• High status chance.
• Low recoil.
• High accuracy.
• Very high reload speed.
• Good fire rate.
• Innate and polarity.

Disadvantages

• Low Impact and Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.

Comparisons:

• Lato Prime, compared to Lato:
  • Higher base damage (48.0 vs. 30.0)
    • Lower Impact damage (4.8 vs. 7.5)
    • Higher Puncture damage (9.6 vs. 7.5)
    • Higher Slash damage (33.6 vs. 15.0)
  • Higher critical chance (30% vs. 10%)
  • Higher critical damage multiplier (2x vs. 1.8x)
  • Higher status chance (20% vs. 6%)
  • Different polarities ( vs. None)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 0)

• Lato Prime, compared to Lato Vandal:
  • Higher base damage (48.0 vs. 46.0)
    • Lower Impact damage (4.8 vs. 6.9)
    • Lower Puncture damage (9.6 vs. 11.5)
    • Higher Slash damage (33.6 vs. 27.6)
  • Higher critical chance (30% vs. 26%)
  • Lower critical damage multiplier (2x vs. 2.4x)
  • Higher status chance (20% vs. 10%)
  • Higher fire rate (6.67 rounds/sec vs. 5 rounds/sec)
  • Less accurate (18 vs. 23)
  • Different polarities ( vs. )
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 7)

Weapon LoadoutsEdit

• See Category:Lato Prime Build to see how players mod this weapon.
• See Category:Lato Prime Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
• For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.

TriviaEdit

• As of Update 10.2, all parts of this weapon can be customized.
• At rare times, a Lato Prime with the normal Lato default colors and without gold trim could be seen as the image for the Secondary Weapons Item XP prize on the daily Login Rewards, replacing the usual image for the reward.
• The Lato Prime bears a resemblance to the real life Derringer pocket pistol.
• Against their agreement with Digital Extremes, Perfect World re-released the Lato Prime as part of a Halloween promotion for the Chinese build of the game.^[1] Between October 28^th and October 31^st, 2016, anyone who purchased the 4,250 Platinum bundle also received the Lato Prime, Dullahan Mask, Lacera, Constitution, and Primed Target Cracker. The promotion was modified in the 29^th to give the Reaper Prime instead.

MediaEdit

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Warframe The LATO PRIME Build Guide

Lato Prime Skins

Conclave

Day of the Dead
Seasonal

Kintsugi

Nocturne

Patch HistoryEdit

ReferencesEdit

See alsoEdit

• Lato, the original version.
• Lato Vandal, an exclusive Lotus upgrade version of the Lato.
• Prime, the Orokin technology used to enhance Warframes or weapons.