Tenet Detron

Corpus Weapons

Tenet Detron
Untradeable
Innate Progenitor Bonus
General Information
Type	Shotgun Sidearm
Mastery	16
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Accuracy	20
Ammo Type	Pistol
Disposition	⬤⬤◯◯◯ (0.75x)
Fire Rate	3.33
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	6
Max Ammo	210
Reload Time	1.05 s
Projectile Speed	150 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Normal Attack
6.5
26
Total Damage	325 (80%)
Crit Chance	18%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 28 m 45% damage at 40 m 55% max reduction
Fire Rate	3.33
Multishot	10 (32.5 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Status Chance	10%
Projectile Speed	150 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Burst Shot
6.5
26
Total Damage	325 (80%)
Burst Delay	0.125 s
Burst Rate	2
Crit Chance	18%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Fire Rate	4.8
Multishot	10 (32.5 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Status Chance	10%
Projectile Speed	150 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Trigger Type	Burst
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
Polarities	None
Variants	Detron  Mara Detron

CODEX

Parvos Granum’s engineers have made this already ferocious hand-cannon even more deadly with the addition of an alternate fire mode that empties an entire clip in one devastating burst.

The Tenet Detron is the Tenet variant of the  Detron pistol shotgun, featuring enhanced critical chance, critical multiplier, overall status chance due to increased multishot despite its base status being lowered, and accuracy that exceeds the  Mara Detron, along with a slight increase to magazine size, at the cost of a steep damage penalty. It has gained an Alternate Fire that burst-fires its entire magazine.

Characteristics

This weapon primarily deals  Radiation damage.

Advantages:

• Innate  Radiation damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew.
• Good critical chance.
• Very high status chance.
• Very fast reload speed.
• Good accuracy.
• Innate multishot of 10 pellets.
• Alternate Fire shoots all remaining ammunition in the magazine in a quick burst.
  • Benefits from magazine increasing mods to further increase the burst's damage.
• Can use the  Detron-exclusive  Thermagnetic Shells mod.
• 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,  Heat,  Cold,  Electricity,  Toxin,  Magnetic, or  Radiation damage, based on the Sister's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.

Disadvantages:

• Innate  Radiation damage – less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized.
  • Damage cannot be increased by mods that add  Impact,  Puncture or  Slash damage.
• Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 45% from 28m to 40m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
• Projectiles have travel time.

Comparisons:

• Tenet Detron (Normal Attack), compared to Detron (Normal Attack):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (41 vs. 40)
    • Lower  Radiation damage (26 vs. 40)
  • Higher total damage (416 vs. 280)
  • Higher base critical chance (18.00% vs. 4.00%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 1.5x)
  • Lower base status chance (10.00% vs. 12.86%)
  • Higher average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (490.88 vs. 285.6)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1634.63 vs. 951.04)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1899.81 vs. 921.11)
  • Farther starting damage falloff distance (28.0m vs. 13.0m)
  • Farther max damage falloff distance (40.0m vs. 22.0m)
  • Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (55.00% vs. 62.31%)
  • Higher multishot (10 vs. 7)
  • Larger magazine (6 vs. 5)
  • More accurate (20 vs. 7.1)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (16 vs. 6)
  • Lower disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.15x))

Comparisons:

• Tenet Detron (Normal Attack), compared to Mara Detron (Normal Attack):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (41 vs. 40)
    • Lower  Radiation damage (26 vs. 40)
  • Higher total damage (416 vs. 280)
  • Higher base critical chance (18.00% vs. 8.00%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 1.5x)
  • Lower base status chance (10.00% vs. 13.71%)
  • Higher average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (490.88 vs. 291.2)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1634.63 vs. 969.69)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1899.81 vs. 1502.67)
  • Farther starting damage falloff distance (28.0m vs. 16.0m)
  • Farther max damage falloff distance (40.0m vs. 30.0m)
  • Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (55.00% vs. 62.50%)
  • Higher multishot (10 vs. 7)
  • Smaller magazine (6 vs. 8)
  • More accurate (20 vs. 13.3)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (16 vs. 9)
  • Lower disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.15x))

Acquisition

Tenet Detron 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

• The Alternate Fire of the Tenet Detron will eject all of the remaining ammunition in the magazine in a single burst.
  • Base effective fire rate is 8 rounds per second.
    • The burst is affected by Fire Rate mods, but not perfectly; +60% Fire Rate only resulted in roughly +45% effect.
  • Increasing the magazine size of the weapon such as with  Slip Magazine ( Primed) and  Tainted Clip, and using recoil reduction mods like  Steady Hands, can help to make its damage output more consistent and reliable.
  • If buffed with unlimited ammo such as from the Reactant Buff, the weapon will only fire a burst equal to its current magazine, with small delays between each trigger pull.
  • Alternate Fire be canceled using quick melee.
  • Aiming will be disabled for the duration of the burst, and so the Alternate Fire cannot benefit from Acolyte Mods.
• The ability to to unload all its magazine in one powerful burst is shared with the Grineer  Kuva Kraken and  Octavia's  Pandero ( Prime).
• Despite the lower base damage compared to its predecessors, the Tenet Detron's increased Multishot (10 pellets vs. 7 pellets) results in higher overall damage even with the lowest possible elemental bonus (+25%).
  • For example, a Tenet Detron with a +25%  Toxin damage bonus gains 6.5 more damage for a total of 32.5 damage per pellet. With 10 pellets, that results in 325 damage per shot, compared to the 280 damage of the standard Detron or the Mara Detron.

Kuva/Tenet notes

• 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,  Cold,  Electricity,  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 >  Cold >  Electricity >  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, using an  Electricity progenitor Warframe to add base  Electricity damage to the weapon will change the weapon's base element to  Magnetic.
    • Because  Cold comes before  Electricity in the HCET element order,  Cold will be placed second to last in the element combine order, and  Electricity will be placed last.
    • If the weapon is then modded with only  Heat, the elements will be arranged in the order  Heat,  Cold,  Electricity, resulting in the weapon having  Blast +  Electricity. If the weapon is instead modded with only  Toxin, the elements will be arranged in the order  Toxin,  Cold,  Electricity, which will create  Viral +  Electricity.
    • If modded with  Electricity and  Heat, the  Electricity will be moved earlier in the combine order due to now being a modded element, so the new combine order will be  Electricity,  Heat,  Cold, resulting in  Radiation +  Cold. If modded with  Heat and  Toxin, the combine order will be  Heat,  Toxin,  Cold,  Electricity, resulting in  Gas +  Magnetic.

HCET Damage Priority Results

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

*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element

Tips

• In  Mag's hands, the Tenet Detron is a potentially devastating weapon as she can pulverize crowds of enemies by unloading the gun's alt-fire burst into a short-tap  Magnetize bubble. Combined with its very fast reload speed, Mag can unleash torrents of shot in the entire duration of the bubble, and with  Thermagnetic Shells equipped, deadly explosions scaling against enemy health push the damage output further.
  • Combine this already devastating setup with a thrown melee weapon with  Combo Fury to double the bubble's received torrent of shot per burst.

Bugs

• The falloff ranges displayed ingame (13m-22m) are incorrect. Tenet Detron will still deal full damage until about 28m.

Patch History

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

• Introduced.

See Also

•  Detron, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
•  Mara Detron, another variant of this weapon.
•  Kuva Brakk, the Kuva equivalent of this weapon.
•  Kuva Kraken, a Kuva weapon with a similar alt-fire ability.
•  Pandero ( Prime),  Octavia's signature weapon with a similar alt-fire ability.