Pyrana

Tenno Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Pyrana
Statistics
Mastery	12
Slot	Secondary
Type	Shotgun Sidearm
Trigger Type	Auto
Utility
Ammo Type	Pistol
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Noise Level	Alarming
Fire Rate	4.17
Accuracy	5
Magazine Size	10
Max Ammo	210
Reload Time	2 s
Disposition	●●●○○ (0.95x)
Normal
2.2
2.2
17.6
Total Damage	264 (80%)
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Range	300 m
Fire Rate	4.17
Multishot	12 (22 damage per projectile)
Status Chance	2.5%
Crit Chance	20%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 15 m 27% damage at 30 m 73% max reduction
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Polarities	None
Introduced	Update 13.6 (2014-06-04)
Variants	Pyrana Prime Pyrana Prime
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Tenno/Pistols/SawnOffShotgun/TennoHandShotgun

CODEX

Chew through the enemy with this vicious automatic hand shotgun.

The Pyrana is a secondary automatic  Tenno shotgun, available from the Tenno Lab. With its fast fire rate and high Slash Damage Slash damage, the Pyrana can easily decimate groups of lightly armored targets or the Infested. However, this is counterbalanced by its high recoil and damage falloff.

This weapon can be sold for 5,000 Credits 5,000.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily Slash Damage Slash damage.

Advantages:

• High Slash Damage Slash damage – effective against health.
• High critical chance.
• Innate multishot of 12 pellets.
  • Second highest pellet count of all secondary shotguns, behind Twin Rogga Twin Rogga.
• Efficient ammo economy.

Disadvantages:

• Low Impact Damage Impact and Puncture Damage Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
• Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 27.27% from 15m to 30m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
• Low overall status chance.
• Low accuracy.
• High recoil, especially on full auto.
• Shots goes to the right and up. Horizontally it hits rightmost side of the reticle at 3m, worsening at longer distances.

Comparisons:

• Pyrana (Normal), compared to Pyrana Prime (Normal):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (22 vs. 24)
    • Higher Impact Damage Impact damage (2.2 vs. 1.92)
    • Higher Puncture Damage Puncture damage (2.2 vs. 1.92)
    • Lower Slash Damage Slash damage (17.6 vs. 20.16)
  • Higher total damage (264 vs. 240)
  • Lower base critical chance (20% vs. 24%)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (2x vs. 2.2x)
  • Lower base status chance (2.5% vs. 3.6%)
  • Higher average damage per shot (316.8 vs. 309.12)
  • Higher burst DPS (1,321.06 vs. 1,236.48)
  • Lower sustained DPS (720.31 vs. 806.4)
  • Closer starting damage falloff distance (15m vs. 18m)
  • Closer ending damage falloff distance (30m vs. 36m)
  • Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (0.73x vs. 0.75x)
  • Higher fire rate (4.17 round(s)/sec vs. 4 round(s)/sec)
  • Higher multishot (12 projectile(s) vs. 10 projectile(s))
  • Smaller magazine (10 round(s) vs. 12 round(s))
  • Slower reload time (2 s vs. 1.6 s)
  • Less accurate (5 vs. 6.1)
  • Different polarities (None vs. )
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 13)
  • Higher disposition (0.95 vs. 0.6)
  • Higher multishot count (12 vs. 10)

Acquisition

The Pyrana's blueprint can be researched from the Tenno Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements
20,000	2	800	200	1	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 175			Blueprints Price:15,000
Tenno Lab Research 3,000
5,000	1	500	50	300	Time: 72 hrs
					Prereq: Akstiletto
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Tips

• While more ammo-efficient than other full-auto secondaries like the Viper Viper, Pistol Ammo Mutation Pistol Ammo Mutation, Pistol Scavenger Pistol Scavenger or Squad Ammo Restores can still help counteract the Pyrana's heavy ammo expenditure if fired continuously in full auto.
• To reduce the massive amounts of recoil, use Steady Hands Steady Hands.
• Barrel Diffusion 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 Lethal Torrent for more pellets, it will increase your rate of fire tremendously and deplete your ammo very quickly.
  • However, the net result is 33-34 pellets, the second highest amount of all shotguns, behind the Twin Rogga Twin Rogga. Coupled with its high crit chance, it can be a very deadly close-quarters weapon.
  • Combining Punch Through mods such as Seeker (Mod) Seeker will make this weapon especially deadly against clustered enemies coming in too close.

Trivia

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

Media

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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 0.83333333333333% to 2.5%.

Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)

October 2019 Riven Disposition Change

• Pyrana: 0.7->0.65

Hotfix 21.0.9 (2017-07-17)

• Increased ammo capacity of Pyrana in Conclave.

Hotfix 21.0.4 (2017-07-05)

• Changed Pyrana’s Mag to 10 in Conclave to match PvE values.

Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)

• Damage increased from 9 to 22.
• Damage fall off added starting from 15m and ending at 30 with a minimum damage of 6.
• Increased mag size from 5 to 10.
• Mastery Rank 12 required.

Update 18.0 (2015-12-03)

• Pyrana is now available for use in Conclave.

Hotfix 15.1.2 (2014-11-08)

• Reduced the amount of reverb heard on the Pyrana sound effects.
• Increased the volume of the Pyrana reload sound effect.

Update 13.6 (2014-06-04)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 23.10.8 (2018-10-25)