The MK1-Strun is the MK1 variant of the 
Strun and is standard issue shotgun for new Tenno recruits. Although its damage is quite low, it has decent status potential.
It can also be sold for 
2,500.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Impact damage.
Advantages:
- High
Impact damage – effective against shields. - High overall status chance.
- Innate multishot of 10 pellets.
- Good ammo efficiency.
- Reloads one shell at a time at a rate of 0.5 seconds per shell, which can be interrupted at any point, allowing for planned reloading.
Disadvantages:
- Tied with Cedo for the second lowest base damage of all pellet shotguns, after Boar.
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from 15m to 25m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
- Low critical chance.
- Low accuracy.
- Small magazine size.
- Tied with Strun for the second slowest reload speed of all shotguns, after Strun Wraith.
- Reloading has a 0.5 second delay to start and a 0.25 second delay to end.
- Individual shell reload causes magazine increasing effects to increase total reload speed.
Comparisons:
- MK1-Strun (Normal Attack), compared to Strun (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (18 vs. 25)
- Lower total damage (180 vs. 300)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 1.5x)
- Higher base status chance (6.00% vs. 5.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (193.5 vs. 311.25)
- Lower burst DPS (402.48 vs. 778.12)
- Lower sustained DPS (174.99 vs. 303.65)
- Farther starting damage falloff distance (15.0m vs. 12.0m)
- Greater max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (50.00% vs. 40.00%)
- Lower fire rate (2.08 vs. 2.5)
- Lower multishot (10 vs. 12)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 1)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.45x) vs. ●●●●● (1.40x))
- MK1-Strun (Normal Attack), compared to Strun Wraith (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (18 vs. 40)
- Lower total damage (180 vs. 400)
- Lower base critical chance (7.50% vs. 18.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 2.2x)
- Lower base status chance (6.00% vs. 12.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (193.5 vs. 486.4)
- Lower burst DPS (402.48 vs. 1216)
- Lower sustained DPS (174.99 vs. 540.44)
- Closer max damage falloff distance (25.0m vs. 30.0m)
- Lower fire rate (2.08 vs. 2.5)
- Smaller magazine (6 vs. 10)
- Faster reload time (3.75 vs. 5)
- Less accurate (4 vs. 6.7)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 10)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.45x) vs. ●●●●● (1.35x))
- MK1-Strun (Normal Attack), compared to Strun Prime (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (18 vs. 44)
- Lower total damage (180 vs. 528)
- Lower base critical chance (7.50% vs. 24.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 2.2x)
- Lower base status chance (6.00% vs. 6.67%)
- Lower average damage per tap (193.5 vs. 680.06)
- Lower burst DPS (402.48 vs. 2264.61)
- Lower sustained DPS (174.99 vs. 894.46)
- Closer starting damage falloff distance (15.0m vs. 26.0m)
- Closer max damage falloff distance (25.0m vs. 52.0m)
- Lower fire rate (2.08 vs. 3.33)
- Lower multishot (10 vs. 12)
- Smaller magazine (6 vs. 10)
- Faster reload time (3.75 vs. 4.6)
- Less accurate (4 vs. 9.1)
- Less polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 14)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.45x) vs. ●●●○○ (0.90x))
Notes[]
- Reload time is 0.75s + 0.5s per round, coming to 3.75 total seconds to reload a completely empty mag.
- This time will further increase if magazine mods such as Ammo Stock are used.
- This time will further increase if magazine mods such as
- The MK-1 Strun is a slightly weaker version of the standard Strun, with less overall damage and a slightly slower rate of fire.
Acquisition[]
A built MK1-Strun can be purchased from the Market for 15,000.
Tips[]
- Using the Shotgun Ammo Mutation mod can help regain ammo when needed, although not as often as the full auto shotguns.
- Weapon's spread cone can be shrunk by zooming in.
Trivia[]
- The Strun appears to use a tubular magazine, presumably the cylindrical protrusion near the rear above the stock - the Warframe will push this section while reloading.
- Assuming the Warframe is adding shells into this tube, or replacing it, it would imply that the shells used by Strun are extremely small, which is quite puzzling given the enormous size of the barrel diffuser.
- The regular Grineer Trooper used to use this weapon prior to Update 11.0 (2013-11-20). They now wield a Sobek.
- The Strun is most likely a Tenno weapon, despite its augmentation the Strun Wraith, a Grineer-focused customization. The Strun bears a faint Tenno marking on its stock as proof.
Media[]
MK1-Strun Skins
Patch History[]
Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)
- Greater than 100% Status having meaning
Shotguns have a unique Role here based on a very patch-work history with how they interact with Status Chance. A Shotgun that shoots 99% Status Chance would give you 35% (roughly) status per pellet. 100% Status Gives you 100% Status per pellet. This huge jump in performance happens with just a 1% gain - why? Well, to answer that we have to look at our choice to make what the UI conveys reality. It would feel broken to shoot a Shotgun with 100% Status and not see a perfect spread of Effects. In reality, to make Status consistent we have to treat Shotguns as a special case.
Shotguns as a special case means we have buffed the Status Chance of all Shotguns by x3 or greater. The UI now behaves to show the reality that you are determining Status Chance per pellet.
- (Undocumented) Status chance per projectile increased from 2% to 6%.
Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
Several changes have been made to shotgun weapons across the board -- resulting in a list of changes similar from weapon to weapon. The following list of changes apply to all Primary Shotguns with exception to the Phage:
- Increased damage across all shotguns.
- Damage after projectile falloff has been increased for all shotguns.
- Some shotguns have been given improvements to reload speed.
- Some shotguns have received improvements to their projectile speed.
- Death at close to mid range will now toss enemies into a forceful ragdoll.
- (Undocumented) Strun series changed from magazine-based reload to shell-by-shell reload.
See also[]
- Strun the normal counterpart of this Weapon.
- Strun Prime, the Prime variant of this Weapon.
- Strun Wraith, the Wraith counterpart of this Weapon.
- MK1, the special prefix of the Weapon.
