Pyrana

The Pyrana is an automatic Tenno pistol shotgun, available from the Tenno Lab. With its fast fire rate and its physical damage leaning towards Slash damage, the Pyrana can easily decimate groups of lightly armored targets or the Infested. However, this is counter-balanced by its small magazine and long reload time.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * Deals damage, good against Infested and Flesh.
 * Medium damage and fast firing speed (for secondary shotguns).
 * No damage dropoff over distance.
 * Highest pellet count of all the shotgun sidearms.
 * With a maxed Barrel Diffusion and Lethal Torrent mod, has the most pellets of all shotguns.

Disadvantages:
 * Low accuracy.
 * High recoil generated, especially on full auto.
 * Small magazine coupled with a decent reload speed hamper its overall DPS.
 * Low and  damage, making it less effective against shields and armor.

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

Tips

 * Due to the Pyrana's small magazine size it is recommended to install Quickdraw and/or Stunning Speed to reduce reload times and boost DPS.
 * While not as ammo-inefficient as other full-auto secondaries like the Viper, Pistol Ammo Mutation, Pistol Scavenger or Team Ammo Restores can still help counteract the Pyrana's heavy ammo expenditure.
 * To reduce the massive amounts of recoil, use Steady Hands.
 * Barrel Diffusion can greatly increase the amount of pellets per shot (a fully ranked Barrel Diffusion can yield up to 26 pellets per shot). Although it can be paired with Lethal Torrent for more pellets, it will increase your rate of fire tremendously and deplete your ammo very quickly.

Trivia

 * The weapon's name, design and description are all derived from the piranha, an omnivorous freshwater fish that inhabits South American rivers, which is well known for hunting its prey in packs and viciously tearing it apart.