The Hikou Prime is the Primed variant of the 
Hikou throwing stars, featuring higher damage, status chance, magazine, and faster reload speed, at some expense to fire rate. It was released alongside 
Nyx Prime and 
Scindo Prime.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics
- This weapon deals primarily
Puncture damage. - Works well with
Concealed Explosives, considering its high fire rate and ammo capacity. - Innate two
polarities.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Second highest fire rate of all throwing-type secondaries, behind normal Hikou.
- Fastest reload speed of all throwing-type secondaries.
- Silent.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high reload speed (0.50 s)
- Above average magazine (26)
- Above average ammo max (210)
- Above average fire rate (5.83 attacks/sec)
- Above average status chance (28.00%)
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Second lowest base damage of all throwing-type secondaries, after Hikou.
- Projectiles have travel time with arcing.
- Very low ammo efficiency.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low crit chance (6.00%)
- Below average total damage (36)
- Below average crit multiplier (1.80x)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
Hikou Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Hikou (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (36.00 vs. 26.00)
- Higher total damage (36 vs. 26)
- Higher base critical chance (6.00% vs. 4.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (1.80x vs. 1.60x)
- Higher base status chance (28.00% vs. 10.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (37.72 vs. 26.62)
- Higher burst DPS (219.95 vs. 177.58)
- Higher sustained DPS (197.78 vs. 142.05)
- Lower fire rate (5.83 attacks/sec vs. 6.67 attacks/sec)
- Larger magazine (26 vs. 20)
- Faster reload time (0.50 s vs. 0.75 s)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 2)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.30x))
Acquisition
Unlike most Prime gear, Hikou Prime is permanently unvaulted, with relics being obtainable through Abandoned Derelict Caches in Corpus Railjack missions.
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Stars | Pouch | Blueprint
|
|---|---|---|
 Axi V10 Common Axi S3 Common (V) Lith F2 Common (V) Neo N1 Common (V)
|
Lith C7 Common Axi K1 Common (V) Axi V2 Common (V) Meso N6 Common (V)
|
Axi S8 Common Lith S1 Common (V) Meso N2 Common (V) Neo R1 Common (V)
|
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 15,000 |
 2 |
 2 |
 Orokin Cell8 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush:  50
| |||||
 Market Price: N/A
|
 Blueprints Price:N/A
| ||||
Vaultings
- On August 9th, 2016, it was announced that Hikou Prime, alongside Nyx Prime and Scindo Prime, would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on August 23rd, 2016. Any preexisting components, relics or fully-built weapons will remain as is.
- Hikou Prime, along with Nyx Prime, Scindo Prime,
Rhino Prime, 
Boltor Prime, and 
Ankyros Prime, was unvaulted on July 24, 2018 to September 25, 2018. - The same line-up was unvaulted again from July 16th, 2019 to September 3rd, 2019.
Tips
- Make sure to adjust your aim for moving targets, both vertically and horizontally.
- Combining both Pistol Multishot Mods, ( Barrel Diffusion and Lethal Torrent), as well as the Corrupted Mod, Magnum Force, allows for easier barrages against mobile/running Targets.
- When using at a distance, aim above the enemy to adjust for Hikou Prime's arc.
- High proc rate means that
Cold mods are more likely to slow enemies, making them easier to hit with further attacks. - Using a Pistol Ammo Mutation or Primed Pistol Ammo Mutation mod can help regain lost ammo when needed.
- Alternatively, bring along a Squad Ammo Restore or use a Carrier with Ammo Case.
- Alternatively, bring along a Squad Ammo Restore or use a Carrier with
Bugs
- As with all thrown sidearms, when performing a Jump Kick your frame will hold the Hikou Prime as dual pistols. Upon hitting the ground and sliding, this will quickly switch back to as it should be.
Trivia
- Hikou (Hikō or 飛行 ) in Japanese means "flight."
- The Hikou are based off the Japanese throwing stars from ninjutsu tradition. Throwing stars were primarily used as distractions, and were often called the "invisible blades" due to a thrown star being able to cut enemies unseen from any direction.
Media
Hikou Prime
Hikou Prime Skins
Patch History
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Damage increased from 32 to 36.
- Status chance increased from 15% to 28%.
- Critical chance increased from 2.5% to 6%.
- Critical damage increased from 1.5x to 1.8x.
Hotfix: The Silver Grove 3 (2016-08-23)
- Hikou Prime has entered the Prime Vault.
Update 18.1 (2015-12-16)
- Hikou series is now available for use in Conclave.
Update 18.0 (2015-12-03)
- Hikou Prime has been given a PBR Upgrade!
Update 16.8 (2015-06-10)
- Fixed thrown weapons not showing the proper energy trails.
Hotfix 14.8.1 (2014-09-25)
- Fixed an issue with the Hikou Prime having incorrect coloring when trying to customize energy color.
- Fixed an issue with the Hikou Prime sound effect being unaffected by volume sliders. Additional tweaks to overall sound levels are included.
Update 14.8 (2014-09-24)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 22.20.9 (2018-06-07)
See Also
- Hikou, the original counterpart of this weapon.
Kunai, another thrown secondary.
Despair, another thrown secondary, used by the Stalker.
