Latron Prime

"The ornamental LATRON PRIME exploits ancient Orokin technology to get a slight damage increase over the standard LATRON."

- In-Game Description

The Latron Prime features higher base damage and critical-hit chance than the Latron. The Latron Prime was added into the game in Update 8, becoming one of the first prime weapons to be avaliable to non-founders.

This weapon can be sold for.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage.

Advantages:
 * Deals mostly damage, making this weapon very effective against Grineer without any elmental mods.
 * Has higher damage than the standard Latron.
 * High critical hit chance and damage.
 * Has and  polarity slot.
 * Very ammo efficient.
 * High accuracy.
 * Second-highest status chance of all rifle weapons.

Disadvantages:
 * Like the normal version it features a slow base rate of fire.
 * Semi-Auto fire trigger.
 * Low damage per-second (DPS)
 * Can only be obtained from the Void.
 * Reduced effectiveness at close range with groups of enemies unless Punch Through mod is used.
 * Moderate recoil can prevent consistent strikes to weak points, forcing slower fire for better accuracy.
 * Like all semi auto weapons, a lower frame rate leads to a lower fire rate.
 * Requires 10 Orokin Cells to craft.
 * Deals mostly damage, making this weapon ineffective against Infested without Hellfire or Wildfire mod.

Acquisition
The Latron Prime blueprint and its components can be obtained by completing Void Survival missions.

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

Trivia

 * The Latron Prime and Reaper Prime were available after Update 8, although DE had previously mentioned not releasing the weapons on U8. This may be because of the many times U8 had been delayed.
 * Latron Prime is the first primary weapon to be a Prime.
 * As of Update 8.3, the Latron Prime's body and energy color can be colored.