The Bronco functions like a cross between a shotgun and handgun, that comes in a handy package to complement long range primary weapons.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000; it is also a requisite ingredient for 
Akbronco (x2).
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 20,000 |  2 |  1,200 |  700 |  800 | Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: 190
|  Blueprints Price: 15,000
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Characteristics
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This weapon deals primarily 
Impact damage.
Advantages:
- High base damage.
- High status chance.
- Good fire rate.
- High reload speed.
- Very ammo efficient.
Disadvantages:
- Low Puncture and Slash damage – less effective against armor and health.
- Very low critical chance.
- Linear damage falloff from 100% to 75% from 7m to 14m target distance (distances are affected by projectile flight speed).
- Before 100% status chance, the listed status chance is the base chance per shot that at least one pellet will proc a status; the actual base status chance per pellet is ~3.49%.
- Extremely small magazine size of just 2 rounds; requires frequent reloading.
- Wide pellet spread cone makes the weapon ineffective beyond medium range.
Comparisons:
- Bronco, compared to Akbronco:
- Lower fire rate (5 rounds/sec vs. 8.33 rounds/sec)
- Smaller magazine (2 rounds vs. 4 rounds)
- Faster reload speed (1.05 s vs. 2.25 s)
- Different polarities (None vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 2)
- Bronco, compared to Bronco Prime:
- Lower base damage (280.0 vs. 350.0)
- Lower status chance (22% vs. 30%)
- Higher fire rate (5 rounds/sec vs. 4.17 rounds/sec)
- Shorter range before damage falloff starts (7m vs. 9m)
- Shorter range before damage falloff ends (14m vs. 18m)
- Larger max damage reduction due to falloff (75% vs. 74%)
- Smaller magazine (2 rounds vs. 4 rounds)
- Faster reload speed (1.05 s vs. 2 s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 4)
Weapon LoadoutsEdit
- See Category:Bronco Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Bronco Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
- For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.
TipsEdit
- The weapon's spread cone can be shrunken by zooming in.
- It is surprisingly effective at dealing damage over groups of enemies, in close to mid range fights.
- Using maxed Seeker is recommended to upgrade its crowd controlling capability, making it the best scatter-damaging sidearm.
NotesEdit
- The damage listed is actually the combination of all seven pellets' damage values. The actual damage per pellet is 12 impact, 1.5 puncture, and 1.5 slash
TriviaEdit
- The word Bronco is a term in a Spanish Dialect meaning "rough".
- It is also a common term for wild horse in Western culture.
MediaEdit
Patch HistoryEdit
Update 22.12
- Damage increased from 38 to 40 (per pellet).
- Status chance increased from 20% to 22%.
- Critical chance increased from 2.5% to 6%.
- Damage increased from 15 to 38.
- Damage fall off added starting from 7m and ending at 14 with a minimum damage of 10.
- Status Chance increased from 14% to 20%.
- Bronco series are available for use in Conclave.
- Sound tweak to Bronco.
- Sound changes.
- Market changes: was 35,000 credits, now blueprint and 190 platinum.
- Tweaks to Recoil feel and Accuracy, generally sharper Rotation and Translation Springs, added Noise & better spread control when firing while aimed. Added force feedback to all firing sounds.
- Total number of pellets now 7, was 8.
- Reload time now 1.05, was 1.
- Crit Chance now 2.5%, was 5%.
- Introduced with game release.
Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.5
See alsoEdit
- Akbronco, the akimbo counterpart of this gun.
- Bronco Prime, the prime counterpart of this gun.
- Akbronco Prime, the primed akimbo counterpart of this gun.
- Pyrana, another Tenno-made pocket shotgun sidearm.
