If you ask me, “best frame” is nothing if you don’t like playing it in the first place. Do you like tanks? Casters/ability damage frames? Weapon platform frames? There’s also many variables introduced via Helminth. And the best frame won’t do shit if you don’t mod it right and don’t play it right the higher you go - higher levels increase reliance on shield gating, staying mobile and things that let you straight up ignore damage.
Here’s some things I do like a lot to go for myself though but I can take most frames currently and get them going for a long time in SP:
-Mag - very easy shield gating, elevates projectile weapons to great heights
-Zephyr - can ignore most damage, has incredible crowd control coupled with damage amplification
-Xaku - yoink gun be skelly, full defense strip and scaling damage
-Nezha - can tank for a very long time and isn’t hard to make into someone who can tank and also shield gate
-Yareli - slightly more gimmicky water Nezha
-Ivara - when I want to snipe heads, camp a spot or roll around
-Gyre - what if World on Fire but electric and you can use Pillage to make it never fall off and survive too
-Grendel - UWU. Can shield gate, can tank, can strip armor.
-Citrine - well I’m a big status stan and she got this plenty
-Baruuk - punch, tank, with Pillage can go 5ever
Revenant is immortal, can be built for literally deleting health bars or for being an immortal platform for weaponry. Gauss, a zoomies full package boi. Gloom Banshee keeping enemies crowd controlled, coupled with armor strip and incredible damage potential. Garuda with endless slashes. Ash with his Disruption popularity.
And then there’s Octavia which I can’t play for long before I get bored off my ass but she’s able to go ad infinitum especially if you give her an armor strip.
If you ask me, “best frame” is nothing if you don’t like playing it in the first place. Do you like tanks? Casters/ability damage frames? Weapon platform frames? There’s also many variables introduced via Helminth. And the best frame won’t do shit if you don’t mod it right and don’t play it right the higher you go - higher levels increase reliance on shield gating, staying mobile and things that let you straight up ignore damage.
Here’s some things I do like a lot to go for myself though but I can take most frames currently and get them going for a long time in SP:
-Mag - very easy shield gating, elevates projectile weapons to great heights
-Zephyr - can ignore most damage, has incredible crowd control coupled with damage amplification
-Xaku - yoink gun be skelly, full defense strip and scaling damage
-Nezha - can tank for a very long time and isn’t hard to make into someone who can tank and also shield gate
-Yareli - slightly more gimmicky water Nezha
-Ivara - when I want to snipe heads, camp a spot or roll around
-Gyre - what if World on Fire but electric and you can use Pillage to make it never fall off and survive too
-Grendel - UWU. Can shield gate, can tank, can strip armor.
-Citrine - well I’m a big status stan and she got this plenty
-Baruuk - punch, tank, with Pillage can go 5ever
Revenant is immortal, can be built for literally deleting health bars or for being an immortal platform for weaponry. Gauss, a zoomies full package boi. Gloom Banshee keeping enemies crowd controlled, coupled with armor strip and incredible damage potential. Garuda with endless slashes. Ash with his Disruption popularity.
And then there’s Octavia which I can’t play for long before I get bored off my ass but she’s able to go ad infinitum especially if you give her an armor strip.