Warframe

Volt scales really well due to a mix of CC, potential overshield charging with Capacitance augment, and Electric Shield giving you conal immunity, self-stagger resistance, and the frankly ludicrous ability to double your crit damage (so functionally a free double damage factor for most weapons you'll want to use due to hybrid meta). Transistor Shield gives him nice party support too. The added electric procs from Electric Shield also give him nice access to free, semi-passive triggers of "on headshot" conditional mods. Speed is a nice free DPS boost due to the reload bonus and melee DPS buffing. At low levels, Discharge is a very nice nuke, and can be scaled indefinitely with Terrify builds.

Genuinely think he's the best frame for new players due to always being good at everything at every level of play. Borne out by his usage stats. People that like Volt really like Volt. I think Mag is the best for high level players, but she requires a lot of modding investment and strong weapons before she really shines.

Volt was my starter and has remained one of my favourites throughout all my playtime. The little rework he got to allow primaries to also be used with his 3 when carried, and to stop his carried 3 draining energy, was just perfect. He's my favourite to pick up and run through some SP fissures with. Makes gunplay very fun since the frontal shield gives you some breathing room to aim at what's in front of you, and doubled crit damage is amazing

volt : the frame for slow players that cant bullet jump properly , still relevant because his shield buffs amps , ult that cant do anything unless you spoonfeed it , 2nd best electricity frame out of a total of 2

Love me some Volt, I got back into the game thanks to Gauss so any speedy boys (and girls, love Titania too) are high up for me.

In the old days Discharge (formerly Overload) used to do this fun thing where it would chain almost infinitely and wipe out a whole level which was just a good time

Volt is a pretty good frame and still sees a lot of use in ESO, Bosses (Eidolon/Profit Taker) and is also a pretty common pick for Relic missions or anything where you just want to run fast. If you see his relics available from Baro/Prime Resurgence, it is worth it to try farming him because of how well he performs in these missions.

Prime warframes just offer minor stat boosts and polarity differences. In Volt's case his prime has +25 armor and +150 max energy at max rank along with an extra "V" polarity with everything else being exactly the same. If you don't want to farm the Prime version/wait for it to become available, you can find the parts for his base version from the Tenno Lab in your dojo, or look for someone selling the set. (https://warframe.market will generally have better prices than what you will find in trade chat)

As for his Abilities:

Shock - I don't find Shock particularly useful, but with its Shock Trooper Augment you can add electricity to your weapons or combine it with any unpaired base elements (Just be aware that it may mess with your teammates' elemental combos, it's still annoying having "Thermal Sunder Titanias" turning my Toxin damage into Gas with their Augment)

Speed - I generally like this ability because of how much warframe is focused around mobility, some teammates may find it annoying though, using a mod like Narrow Minded may mitigate how often teammates receive this buff and will also extend the usable time between casts.

Electric Shield - A pretty good ability, able to block all incoming damage from regular enemy attacks (Directional) and will buff your weapons with Electricity if they shoot through them and provide a Crit Damage bonus. This will not combine with other elements the way Shock Trooper does, it simply adds electric damage to your shots. It can also be picked up by volt to be used as a portable shield similar to Garuda's Dread Mirror, and will still provide the Crit Damage bonus and added electricity damage.

Discharge - This ability is what you would use if you want to use Volt for ESO for nuking the map. It also has the Capacitance Augment which will refill shields for you and your allies if you want to play a more support roll, although it does have some issues in how useful it actually is due to base energy cost and how prevalent shield gating is. It will also grant shields to objectives but the effectiveness is very limited and capped at +250 shield and will not give an objective overshields.

^Hopefully^ ^this^ ^isn't^ ^too^ ^long,^ ^my^ ^goal^ ^was^ ^to^ ^write^ ^a^ ^somewhat^ ^in-depth^ ^overview^ ^for^ ^any^ ^newer^ ^players/anyone^ ^that^ ^has^ ^never^ ^played^ ^Volt^ ^that^ ^may^ ^stumble^ ^onto^ ^this^ ^thread.^