Tenet Detron

Corpus Weapons

Tenet Detron
Tradable (indirectly through Lich trading)
Innate Progenitor Bonus
General Information
Type	Shotgun Sidearm
Mastery	16
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Accuracy	20
Ammo Type	Pistol
Disposition	⬤⬤◯◯◯ (0.80x)
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
26
Total Damage	260
Crit Chance	18%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 26 m 55% damage at 52 m 45% max reduction
Fire Rate	3.33
Multishot	10 (26 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Status Chance	10%
Projectile Speed	150 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Burst Shot
26
Total Damage	260
Burst Delay	0.12 s
Burst Rate	2
Crit Chance	18%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Fire Rate	4.918
Multishot	10 (26 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Status Chance	10%
Projectile Speed	150 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Trigger Type	Burst
Miscellaneous
Default Upgrades	InnateDamageRandomMod
Riven Family	Detron
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
Polarities	None
Variants	Detron  Mara Detron
Vendor Sources

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.
• 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%.
• 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.

Advantages:

• Very high overall status chance.
• Good accuracy.
• Innate multishot of 10 pellets.
• Normal Attack
  • Third highest average number of procs per shot behind  Kuva Brakk
  • Third highest average number of crits per shot behind  Pyrana Prime and  Pyrana
  • Third highest multishot behind  Pyrana
  • High reload speed
• Burst Shot
  • Second highest average number of procs per shot behind  Kompressa
  • Highest average number of crits per shot
  • Highest multishot
  • High reload speed
  • Above average max ammo

Disadvantages:

• Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 55% from 26m to 52m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
• Projectiles have travel time.
• Normal Attack
  • Low magazine
  • Low damage
  • Low effective fire rate
  • Low status chance
  • Very low disposition
• Burst Shot
  • Low magazine
  • Very low damage
  • Very low status chance
  • Very low disposition

Comparisons:

• Tenet Detron (Normal Attack), compared to Detron (Normal Attack):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (26 vs. 40) (individual damage types below exclude any Progenitor bonus)
    • Lower  Radiation damage (26 vs. 40)
  • Higher total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (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) (1032.77 vs. 559.67)
  • Farther starting damage falloff distance (26.0m vs. 13.0m)
  • Farther max damage falloff distance (52.0m vs. 22.0m)
  • Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (44.60% 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 (●●○○○ (0.80x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.15x))

Comparisons:

• Tenet Detron (Normal Attack), compared to Mara Detron (Normal Attack):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (26 vs. 40) (individual damage types below exclude any Progenitor bonus)
    • Lower  Radiation damage (26 vs. 40)
  • Higher total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (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) (1032.77 vs. 674.77)
  • Farther starting damage falloff distance (26.0m vs. 16.0m)
  • Farther max damage falloff distance (52.0m vs. 30.0m)
  • Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (44.60% 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 (●●○○○ (0.80x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.15x))

Acquisition

Main article: Lich System/Weapons#Tenet Acquisition (edit)

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,  Octavia's  Pandero ( Prime), and the Amalgam  Cyanex.
• 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.

Main article: Lich System#Notes (edit)

Kuva/Tenet Notes

• For weapons obtained from vanquishing the Kuva Lich or Sister:
  • 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 Lich/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. a Kuva Kohm might be called "Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm").
• Refraining from Mercy killing a lich candidate will remove their weapon from the pool of potential lich weapons until each has been refused, but only if the mission is completed. Weapons rejected from aborted missions will remain in the current cycle.
• For weapons obtained from Ergo Glast's shop:
  • The player must meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon, as it is claimed from an NPC shop rather than the foundry.
• 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.
  • For Lich/Sister-obtained weapons this is dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • For Ergo Glast shop a random bonus stat will be offered for each weapon and changed every 4 days (96 hours).
  • This damage stat randomly ranges between 25%-60%. It can be upgraded up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
  • This bonus stat is considered a base damage type and will be applied after all elemental mods for the purposes of elemental combinations.

  View detailed explanation about element merging  ▾▾

• Weapons with an innate primary element and a different primary element provided by the progenitor both behave as innate elements and combine with each other. They will also recombine with modded elements in the following order:
  • Mod slot 1 → Mod slot 2 → ... → Mod slot 8 → Innate  Heat → Innate  Cold → Innate  Electricity → Innate  Toxin

HCET Priority Results from Modding an Element

Bonus Element + Modded Element	Innate  Heat E.g.  Tenet Spirex	Innate  Cold E.g.  Tenet Envoy	Innate  Electricity E.g.  Tenet Agendus	Innate  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Cold	Blast	Blast	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Electricity	Radiation	Radiation +  Cold	Radiation	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Toxin	Gas	Gas +  Cold	Gas +  Electricity	Gas
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Heat	Blast	Blast	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Cold	Magnetic	Magnetic	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Cold	Viral	Viral +  Electricity	Viral
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Heat	Radiation	Blast +  Electricity	Radiation	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Electricity	Magnetic	Magnetic	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Electricity	Viral +  Electricity	Corrosive	Corrosive
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Heat	Gas	Blast +  Toxin	Radiation +  Toxin	Gas
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Toxin	Viral	Magnetic +  Toxin	Viral
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Toxin	Magnetic +  Toxin	Corrosive	Corrosive

Main article: Lich System/Progenitor (edit)

*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.
•  Cyanex, an Amalgam weapon with a similar alt-fire ability.
•  Pandero ( Prime),  Octavia's signature weapon with a similar alt-fire ability.