Kunai

"KUNAI throwing daggers offer a silent alternative to the traditional sidearm. Perfect for assassins."

- In-Game Description

The Kunai is a throwing weapon for the secondary slot, released in Update 8. It has a significant amount of DPS, but can be hard to aim with because of its arrow-like arc projection.

Characteristics
Counts as a bolt type weapon.

Advantages:
 * Silent.
 * Innate armor ignore.
 * Infested runners don't explode on death when killed by this weapon.
 * Can hit multiple enemies in a short line (caused by flying dead bodies and not the Kunai).
 * Very fast reload speed (about 0.8 seconds).
 * Crafted by easily obtainable items.
 * Staggers non-heavy Grineer units and Infested Chargers on every hit.
 * Fast fire rate.
 * Can be "fired" on automatic (just hold the fire button and it will continuously fire).
 * The arc of the shots enable headshots over cover.
 * Two  polarity slots, ideal for Hornet Strike and Barrel Diffusion.
 * Not affected by Bullet Attractor (General Sargas Ruk's power).
 * Can pass through enemies' Electric Shield.
 * Can be used to break Corpus ship windows.
 * Does full damage to every bodypart of Infested Ancients.

Disadvantages:
 * Has travel time, making it difficult to land an accurate shot at long distances.
 * Stagger can make it awkward to lay multiple hits on a target at long range (using a Deep Freeze mod can easily remedy this).
 * Shoots in an arc, making it difficult for use at long range.
 * While you are holding this weapon, your Spin Attack (Slide Melee) does not get a speed boost.
 * Requires large amounts of materials to craft.
 * Does not pass through Grineer Shield Lancer's even with Seeker.

Acquisition
The Kunai can be purchased for  175 and the blueprint for 15,000.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * Make sure to adjust your aim for moving targets.
 * The Kunai does not have the pinning properties of other bolt weapons, such as the Boltor or Paris, but will simply throw targets backward upon death.
 * When using at a distance aim above the enemy to adjust for Kunai's arc.
 * Extremely effective vs Ancient Infested (even with only a few levels).
 * Especially lethal when paired with Ice mods.

Bugs

 * Using Quickdraw on the Kunai can cause infinite reloading issues.

Trivia

 * The kunai was conventionally wrought in ranges from 20 cm to 60 cm, with the average at 40 cm. The kunai was used by common folk as multi-purpose gardening tools and by workers of stone and masonry. The kunai is not a knife, but something more akin to a crowbar. The blade was soft iron and unsharpened because the edges were used to smash plaster and wood, to dig holes and to pry. Normally only the tip would have been sharpened. The uses to which a kunai was put would have destroyed any heat-treated and sharpened tool like a knife. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunai