The Grinlok is a Grineer lever-action rifle crafted from the Chem lab via clan research. By nature, the Grinlok sports high damage with accurate delivery, supported by its high critical damage and very high status chance, but its extremely low fire rate and small magazine size hampers its ability to manage crowds of enemies.
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Prereq: Detonite Injector | |||||
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Characteristics
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This weapon deals primarily Impact damage.
Advantages:
- Tied with
Prisma Grinlok for the second highest base damage of all semi-automatic rifles, behind
Kuva Chakkhurr.
- Good critical chance.
- High critical multiplier.
- Second highest status chance of all semi-automatic rifles, behind
Nagantaka.
- Can reach 100% status with
Thermite Rounds,
Rime Rounds,
High Voltage, and
Malignant Force.
- Can reach 100% status with
- Fairly high reload speed.
- Little to no vertical recoil.
- High accuracy.
- Very small spread.
- Excellent ammo efficiency.
- Innate
polarity.
- Can equip the Grinlok-exclusive
Deadly Sequence and
Grinloked (Conclave only) mods.
Disadvantages:
- Low
Puncture damage – less effective against armor.
- Tied with
Prisma Grinlok for the lowest fire rate of all semi-automatic rifles.
- Tied with
Nagantaka for the lowest magazine size of all semi-automatic rifles.
- Critical chance is disproportionately lower than critical multiplier, making critical builds without
Deadly Sequence unviable.
Comparisons:
- Grinlok, compared to Prisma Grinlok:
- Equal base damage, but different composition:
- Lower critical chance (15% vs. 21%)
- Lower critical multiplier (2.5x vs. 2.9x)
- Lower status chance (35% vs. 37%)
- Smaller magazine (9 rounds vs. 21 rounds)
- More accurate (44 vs. 32)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (7 vs. 11)
Weapon Loadouts
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- See Category:Grinlok Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Grinlok Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
- For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.
Notes
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- The Grinlok often ragdolls enemies on lethal shots, a side effect of it dealing mainly
Impact damage.
- The Grinlok's focus on both
Impact and
Slash damage makes it generally effective against the Corpus and the Infested.
Tips
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- While the Grinlok is similar to the
Latron, it comes with a lower magazine capacity and slower rate of fire, making it more punishing for missed shots. Focus on aiming at heads or weak spots.
- With
Malignant Force,
High Voltage,
Thermite Rounds,
Rime Rounds,
Hammer Shot and
Rifle Aptitude equipped, the Grinlok can achieve a status chance of 100%, making every single shot deal status effect procs. While the actual combined status chance is about 138.25%, the UI does not show status chance values above 100%, as any value above that has no effect on the proc chance.
Shred is an excellent mod to help the Grinlok with crowd control, as it increases its slow rate of fire while piercing through groups of enemies, letting each shot deal its massive damage to multiple targets.
- Using the augment
Deadly Sequence, it's possible for players to create a viable crit-status hybrid build for the Grinlok.
Trivia
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- The News tab in the UI mistakenly referred to this gun as Grinlock.
- The weapon's name may be a combination/corruption of "Grineer" and "Flintlock", the latter of which was an early firing mechanism in guns used in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
- Despite the unusual combination of technologies mentioned, a lever-action flintlock rifle did exist in real life.
- While
Marelok is, theoretically, a sawn-off pistol version of this rifle, its magazine is curiously relocated.
Bugs
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Media
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Grinlok Skins
Patch History
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Update 25.7
- Converted materials to PBR on the Grinlok
- PBR treatment.
- Mastery Rank increased from 5 to 7.
- Damage increased from 120 to 187.
- Critical damage increased from 2x to 2.5x.
- Mag size increased from 6 to 9.
- Reload speed increased from 2.1s to 1.7s.
- Increased accuracy while aiming.
- Weapon skin for the Grinlok is now available from Teshin!
- Increased the damage of the Grinlok in Conclave.
- The Grinlok is now available in Conclave.
- Fixed inability to fire Grinlok while sprinting.
- Changes to Grinlok's muzzle flash/sounds.
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 22.20.9.2
See Also
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Marelok, the pistol counterpart.
Vaykor Marelok, the custom pistol counterpart used by Steel Meridian.
Deadly Sequence, a Grinlok exclusive Syndicate mod.
Grinloked, a Grinlok exclusive Conclave mod.
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