Tenet Cycron

Corpus Weapons

Tenet Cycron
Statistics
Type	Pistol
Mastery	14
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Held
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Type	Pistol
Disposition	●○○○○ (0.50x)
Fire Rate	12
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	40
Max Ammo	INF
Reload Time	2 s
Reload Delay	1 s
Reload Rate	40 rounds/s
Projectile Type	Discharge
Normal
5.5
22
Total Damage	27.5 (80%)
Ammo Cost	0.5
Crit Chance	20%
Crit Multiplier	1.8x
Fire Rate	12
Multishot	1 (27.5 damage per projectile)
Punch Through	1 m
Range	28 m
Status Chance	40%
Projectile Type	Discharge
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Corpus/BoardExec/Secondary/CrpBECycron/CrpBECycron
Introduced	Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
Polarities
Variants	Cycron Cycron

CODEX

This reengineered Cycron features a refracting energy disc that can split off its main target hitting up to two additional nearby targets.

The Tenet Cycron is the Tenet variant of the Cycron Cycron beam pistol, dealing pure Heat Damage Heat damage instead of Radiation Damage Radiation, along with improved critical chance, status chance, and total damage. Its beam has also gained the ability to chain between multiple enemies.

Characteristics

This weapon deals Heat Damage Heat damage.

Advantages:

• Innate Heat Damage Heat damage – effective against Cloned Flesh, Infested, and Infested Flesh.
• Third highest status chance of all continuous secondaries, behind the Embolist Embolist and Kuva Nukor Kuva Nukor.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
  • Magnum Force Magnum Force's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
• Innate 1 meter punch through.
• Good critical chance.
• Beam can chain up to 2 nearby enemies within 7 meters from the initial target, each doing 60% of the main beam's damage.
  • Enemy corpses will still allow the beam to connect to nearby enemies.
• Does not use ammo pickups; ammo regenerates over time.
  • Has a 1 second delay after the weapon stops firing before regenerating ammo. Then, regenerates 40 ammo per second; takes 1 second to regenerate a fully depleted battery excluding the delay.
• Innate two polarities.
• Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
• Comes with an additional bonus Impact Damage Impact, Heat Damage Heat, Cold Damage Cold, Electricity Damage Electricity, Toxin Damage Toxin, Magnetic Damage Magnetic, or Radiation Damage Radiation damage, based on the Sister's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.

Disadvantages:

• Innate Heat Damage Heat damage – less effective against Proto Shields.
  • Damage cannot be increased with Impact Damage Impact, Puncture Damage Puncture or Slash Damage Slash mods.
• Below average critical multiplier.
• Damage ramps up from 30% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 30% over 2 seconds.
• Limited range of 28 meters.
  • Ruinous Extension Ruinous Extension can be equipped to extend the maximum range.
• Does not benefit from mods that increase maximum ammo, due to lack of an ammo pool.
• Does not benefit from reload-triggered mods such as Pressurized Magazine Pressurized Magazine.

Comparisons:

• Tenet Cycron (Normal), compared to Cycron (Normal):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (27.5 vs. 23)
    • Lower Puncture Damage Puncture damage (0 vs. 8)
    • Lower Slash Damage Slash damage (0 vs. 5)
    • Higher Heat Damage Heat damage (22 vs. 0)
    • Lower Radiation Damage Radiation damage (0 vs. 10)
    • Higher Lich System/Progenitor MinProgenitorBonus damage (5.5 vs. 0)
  • Higher total damage (27.5 vs. 23)
  • Higher base critical chance (20% vs. 12%)
  • Higher base status chance (40% vs. 30%)
  • Higher average damage per shot (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (40.83 vs. 25.21)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (489.98 vs. 302.5)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (376.91 vs. 232.69)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 8)
  • Lower disposition (0.5 vs. 1.2)

Acquisition

Tenet Cycron is obtained by vanquishing a Sister who generated with one equipped. After the Sister is vanquished it will be in the player's Foundry ready to claim.

While the weapon itself is not tradeable, a converted Sister generated with the weapon can be traded to another player. The trade is performed inside a Clan Dojo's Crimson Branch room, and the recipient must not have any active Lich or Sister. Once traded, the recipient must fight and vanquish the Sister to claim their weapon.

Notes

• Upon striking an enemy, the beam chains up to 2 enemies within 7 meters of the main target. Each chain beam does 60% of the main beam's damage.
• As the weapon requires charging up to recover its ammunition, players should be mindful of letting the weapon recharge by holding fire - keeping the trigger pressed down will prevent it from fully charging, resulting in an overall DPS drop due to the forced one-second delay in recharging being persistently active.
  • The absence of needing ammo pickups does give the Tenet Cycron a slight advantage over its Kuva counterpart, the Kuva Nukor Kuva Nukor, as the former can be always used while the latter can run out of ammo especially in prolonged fights.
• Punch Through will cause the main beam to chain independently from each additional target hit, potentially doubling or tripling the total damage output when fired into a crowd. The chain from the target hit after the Punch Through can deal damage to the first target, and vice versa.

• As with all Kuva and Tenet weapons, the player does not have to meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon. It can simply be claimed from the foundry after the Kuva Lich or Sister carrying it has been vanquished.
• The weapon will have a prefix of the name of the Lich/Sister it was acquired from (e.g. Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm).
• The weapon's max rank caps at 40 after 5 polarizations (max rank increases by 2 per Forma added).
  • Additional polarizations can be added when the weapon reaches its new max rank at that polarization level.
  • Each additional rank also gives 100 Mastery Rank experience, giving 4,000 points in total at level 40.
  • Mod capacity scales with the additional ranks, and can reach a total of 80 at rank 40 with an Orokin Catalyst installed.
    • Without an Orokin Catalyst, the max is 40. Combined with the five polarized mod slots required to reach that point, an Orokin Catalyst might not be required to finish modding the weapon.
    • After polarizing a weapon, any additional mod capacity above 30 (60 with an Orokin Catalyst) will not take effect until the weapon's rank reaches 31 and above.
      • Legendary Mastery Rank increases the minimum mod capacity for such weapons, without the weapon needing to be rank 31 and above. For example, Legendary 1 increases the minimum capacity to 31 (62 with an Orokin Catalyst).
• Comes with an additional damage stat, dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • This damage stat ranges between 25%-60%, and is randomly generated by the Lich/Sister. It can be brought up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
  • This bonus stat is considered a base damage type that is added after all elemental mods.

  View detailed explanation about element merging  ▾▾

• • If the weapon innately has a primary element type (Heat Damage Heat, Cold Damage Cold, Electricity Damage Electricity, Toxin Damage Toxin) AND has a different primary element as its bonus stat, the elements on the weapon will combine in a unique way: Whichever of the two primary elements comes first in this element order - Heat Damage Heat > Cold Damage Cold > Electricity Damage Electricity > Toxin Damage Toxin, or "HCET" for short - will be placed second to last in the element combine order, while the other primary element will be placed last in the combine order. This order can be subsequently shifted based on the order of the equipped mods.
  • For example, if the weapon innately has Cold Damage Cold, using an Electricity Damage Electricity progenitor Warframe to add base Electricity Damage Electricity damage to the weapon will change the weapon's base element to Magnetic Damage Magnetic.
    • Because Cold Damage Cold comes before Electricity Damage Electricity in the HCET element order, Cold Damage Cold will be placed second to last in the element combine order, and Electricity Damage Electricity will be placed last.
    • If the weapon is then modded with only Heat Damage Heat, the elements will be arranged in the order Heat Damage Heat, Cold Damage Cold, Electricity Damage Electricity, resulting in the weapon having Blast Damage Blast + Electricity Damage Electricity. If the weapon is instead modded with only Toxin Damage Toxin, the elements will be arranged in the order Toxin Damage Toxin, Cold Damage Cold, Electricity Damage Electricity, which will create Viral Damage Viral + Electricity Damage Electricity.
    • If modded with Electricity Damage Electricity and Heat Damage Heat, the Electricity Damage Electricity will be moved earlier in the combine order due to now being a modded element, so the new combine order will be Electricity Damage Electricity, Heat Damage Heat, Cold Damage Cold, resulting in Radiation Damage Radiation + Cold Damage Cold. If modded with Heat Damage Heat and Toxin Damage Toxin, the combine order will be Heat Damage Heat, Toxin Damage Toxin, Cold Damage Cold, Electricity Damage Electricity, resulting in Gas Damage Gas + Magnetic Damage Magnetic.

HCET Damage Priority Results

Bonus Element + Modded Element / Innate Element	Innate Heat Damage Heat (Tenet Spirex Tenet Spirex)	Innate Cold Damage Cold (Tenet Envoy Tenet Envoy)	Innate Electricity Damage Electricity (Tenet Agendus Tenet Agendus)	Innate Toxin Damage Toxin
Bonus Heat Damage Heat + Modded Cold Damage Cold	-	-	Blast Damage Blast + Electricity Damage Electricity	Blast Damage Blast + Toxin Damage Toxin
Bonus Heat Damage Heat + Modded Electricity Damage Electricity	-	Radiation Damage Radiation + Cold Damage Cold	-	Radiation Damage Radiation + Toxin Damage Toxin
Bonus Heat Damage Heat + Modded Toxin Damage Toxin	-	Gas Damage Gas + Cold Damage Cold	Gas Damage Gas + Electricity Damage Electricity	-
Bonus Cold Damage Cold + Modded Heat Damage Heat	-	-	Blast Damage Blast + Electricity Damage Electricity	Blast Damage Blast + Toxin Damage Toxin
Bonus Cold Damage Cold + Modded Electricity Damage Electricity	Radiation Damage Radiation + Cold Damage Cold	-	-	Magnetic Damage Magnetic + Toxin Damage Toxin
Bonus Cold Damage Cold + Modded Toxin Damage Toxin	Gas Damage Gas + Cold Damage Cold	-	Viral Damage Viral + Electricity Damage Electricity	-
Bonus Electricity Damage Electricity + Modded Heat Damage Heat	-	Blast Damage Blast + Electricity Damage Electricity	-	Radiation Damage Radiation + Toxin Damage Toxin
Bonus Electricity Damage Electricity + Modded Cold Damage Cold	Blast Damage Blast + Electricity Damage Electricity	-	-	Magnetic Damage Magnetic + Toxin Damage Toxin
Bonus Electricity Damage Electricity + Modded Toxin Damage Toxin	Gas Damage Gas + Electricity Damage Electricity	Viral Damage Viral + Electricity Damage Electricity	-	-
Bonus Toxin Damage Toxin + Modded Heat Damage Heat	-	Blast Damage Blast + Toxin Damage Toxin	Radiation Damage Radiation + Toxin Damage Toxin	-
Bonus Toxin Damage Toxin + Modded Cold Damage Cold	Blast Damage Blast + Toxin Damage Toxin	-	Magnetic Damage Magnetic + Toxin Damage Toxin	-
Bonus Toxin Damage Toxin + Modded Electricity Damage Electricity	Radiation Damage Radiation + Toxin Damage Toxin	Magnetic Damage Magnetic + Toxin Damage Toxin	-	-

*Note that the Primed and Umbra versions of a Warframe share the same element (including altered, exalted, spectral or enhanced forms such as Atlas using Rumbled, Titania in Razorwing, or Sevagoth's Shadow).

Media

Tenet Cycron, When You Want To Melt Enemies Effortlessly-2

Tenet Cycron Build - The Crowd Melter 2021 (Guide) - Warframe

Patch History

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

• Introduced.

See Also

• Cycron Cycron, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
• Kuva Nukor Kuva Nukor, a Kuva weapon with a similar chaining beam.