The Tiberon is a Tenno-made three round burst-fire rifle. Compared to most burst-fire rifles, the Tiberon is much more accurate and primarily deals Puncture damage, albeit at the cost of reduced status chance.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- High
Puncture damage – effective against armor.
- High critical chance and damage.
- Good status chance.
- Very high accuracy.
- Very low recoil.
- Third highest fire rate of all burst-fire rifles, behind
Paracyst and
Burston Prime.
- Comes with a
polarity.
- Can equip the Tiberon-exclusive
Measured Burst mod. (Conclave only)
Disadvantages:
- Low
Impact and
Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
- Linearly less efficient – sometimes a target may only die with four bullets, which requires an entire second burst to be fired.
- Relatively low magazine capacity.
Comparisons:
- Tiberon (Normal Attack), compared to Tiberon Prime (Auto):
- Lower base damage per projectile (44 vs. 46)
- Lower total damage (44 vs. 46)
- Higher base critical chance (26.00% vs. 16.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (2.4x vs. 2.8x)
- Lower base status chance (16.00% vs. 32.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (180.04 vs. 59.24)
- Higher burst DPS (500.13 vs. 493.53)
- Lower sustained DPS (307.24 vs. 353.36)
- Higher fire rate (9.09 vs. 8.33)
- Smaller magazine (30 vs. 42)
- Slower reload time (2.26 vs. 2)
- Less polarities (
vs.
)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 14)
- Higher disposition (●●●○○ (1.10x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.00x))
Acquisition[]
The Tiberon's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
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This weapon can be sold for 7,500.
Notes[]
- Like the Sybaris, the Tiberon's burst has a very tight shot grouping, which combined with its high base accuracy and negligible recoil makes it better at long-range shooting than other burst-fire weapons, such as the
Burston or
Hind.
- The Tiberon is a very strong candidate for a tenno Specter to use thanks to its high damage per second combined with high accuracy.
- Has a higher damage per bullet than other low-tier burst fire weapons, like Burston or Hind.
Trivia[]
- The weapon's name may be derived from tiburón, the Spanish word for shark. Its design also appears to take cues from the animal, particularly the "blades" beneath the muzzle which resemble a shark's pectoral fins.
- The Tiberon is the first weapon outside of Clan Research that requires a Forma to construct.
- At the time of its release, the
Latron Prime or the
Latron Wraith could also be used to build the Tiberon. This was fixed in Hotfix 14.9.1 (2014-10-02).
- Intriguingly, crafting the Tiberon requires the Latron, a semi-automatic rifle, instead of another burst-fire rifle, such as the Burston. The discrepancy can also be explained by the fact that Tiberon sports 3 separate barrels, with presumably one shot being fired from each, thus each barrel technically is its own semi-automatic weapon.
- The Tiberon is reloaded by removing the magazine which is located at the butt end of the stock.
Media[]
Tiberon Skins
Patch History[]
Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)
- October 2019 Riven Disposition Change
- Tiberon: 0.95->0.85
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 4 to 10.
- Status chance increased from 2.5% to 16%.
- Critical chance increased from 5% to 26%.
- Critical damage increased from 2x to 2.4x.
- Damage decreased from 60 to 44.
Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)
- Conclave Magazine capacity decreased from 30 to 21.
Update 19.4.2 (2016-12-20)
- Riven Disposition has been increased.
Update 17.10 (2015-11-04)
- Measured Burst (Conclave Mod) introduced.
Update 17.2.4 (2015-08-26)
- Tiberon damage decreased in Conclave.
Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
- Now available for use in Conclave.
Hotfix 14.9.1 (2014-10-02)
- Fixed Latron variants appearing in list of eligible components when crafting the Tiberon rifle.
Update 14.9 (2014-10-01)
- Introduced.
See Also[]
Tiberon Prime, the prime variant.
Latron, a semi-automatic rifle required to build the Tiberon.
Measured Burst, a Tiberon-exclusive Conclave mod.