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The Tiberon Prime is the select-fire Prime version of the three round burst-fire rifle 
Tiberon, featuring overall higher stats. Unique to the weapon is its three firing modes that can be swapped through its Alternate Fire: balanced statistics on its three round burst-fire mode, higher critical chance and critical multiplier on semi-auto mode, and higher status chance on full-auto mode. It was released alongside 
Zephyr Prime and 
Kronen Prime.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage by a small margin.
Advantages:
- Near-equal physical damage – effective against all factions, Sentient and Shadow Stalker.
- Three firing modes that can be cycled with Alternate Fire: 3-round burst, semi-auto, and full-auto.
- Burst-fire mode:
- Very high critical chance.
- Highest critical multiplier of all burst-fire rifles.
- High status chance.
- Very low recoil.
- Semi-auto mode:
- Very high critical chance.
- Highest critical multiplier of all primary weapons.
- Good status chance.
- Fastest fire rate of all semi-automatic rifles.
- Very low recoil.
- Full-auto mode:
- Good critical chance.
- Tied with
Acceltra for the second highest critical multiplier of all fully automatic rifles, behind Soma/ Soma Prime, Attica, and Baza/ Baza Prime. - Second highest status chance of all fully automatic rifles, behind Boltor Prime.
- Can reach 100% status chance with
Thermite Rounds, Rime Rounds, High Voltage, and Malignant Force.
- Can reach 100% status chance with
- High accuracy.
- Very low recoil, especially on Burst-fire and Semi-auto modes.
- Innate one and two polarities.
Disadvantages:
- Burst-fire mode is linearly less efficient – sometimes a target may only die with four bullets, which requires an entire second burst to be fired, or a change to Fire Mode.
- This can also be mitigated by using quick melee with good timing, canceling the burst partway through.
- Semi-auto mode has the lowest base damage of all semi-automatic rifles.
- Full-auto mode has high recoil.
Comparisons:
- Tiberon Prime, compared to Tiberon:
- Higher base damage (46 vs. 44)
- Higher total damage (46 vs. 44)
- Higher critical chance (28% vs. 26%)
- Higher critical multiplier (3x vs. 2.4x)
- Higher status chance (20% vs. 16%)
- Lower fire rate (7.38 round(s)/sec vs. 9.09 round(s)/sec)
- Larger magazine (42 round(s) vs. 30 round(s))
- Faster reload time (2 s vs. 2.26 s)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 10)
- Lower disposition (0.9 vs. 1.05)
- Higher average damage per shot (71.76 vs. 60.02)
- Lower burst DPS (529.59 vs. 545.55)
- Higher sustained DPS (391.87 vs. 323.81)
Acquisition
Tiberon Prime's main and component blueprints are acquired from the following Void Relics.
| Blueprint |  Barrel
|
 Receiver
|
 Stock
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Lith C8 Common Axi L2 Uncommon (V) Axi O2 Uncommon (V) Axi O4 Uncommon (V) Lith A3 Uncommon (V) Lith K3 Uncommon (V) Neo R2 Uncommon (V) |
Neo K3 Uncommon Meso T1 Rare (V) |
Axi G5 Common Axi D1 Common (V) Axi K3 Common (V) Axi P2 Common (V) Meso O2 Common (V) Meso R1 Common (V) |
Lith T6 Rare Lith T2 Rare (V) Meso T2 Rare (V) Meso T3 Rare (V) |
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 20,000 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
 10 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Vaultings[]
- On December 4th, 2019, it was announced that Tiberon Prime, alongside Zephyr Prime and Kronen Prime, would enter the Prime Vault and its relics retired from the drop tables on December 17th, 2019. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.
Trivia[]
- Tiberon Prime is the first primary weapon to have three firing modes, namely burst-fire, semi-auto, and full-auto modes.
- Tiberon Prime is the second primary weapon with the ability to switch fire modes, the first being Stradavar.
Media[]
Warframe - All Prime Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Warframe - All Prime Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2013 - 2019)
Tiberon Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)
- October 2019 Riven Disposition Change
- Tiberon: 0.95->0.85
Hotfix 22.16.4 (2018-03-20)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.5 (2018-12-13)
See Also[]
- Tiberon, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
- Kuva Hind, a Grineer rifle with functionally equivalent firing modes.
