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:
- Three firing modes that can be cycled with Alternate Fire: 3-round burst, semi-auto, and full-auto.
- High accuracy.
- Very low recoil, especially on Burst-fire and Semi-auto modes.
- Auto
- Third highest crit multiplier behind
Prisma Grinlok
- Above average effective fire rate
- Above average max ammo
- High status chance
- Third highest crit multiplier behind
- Semi-Auto
- Second highest crit multiplier behind
Bubonico
- Above average crit chance
- High effective fire rate
- Above average max ammo
- Second highest crit multiplier behind
- Burst
- Third highest crit multiplier behind
Bubonico
- High crit chance
- Very high effective fire rate
- Above average max ammo
- Third highest crit multiplier behind
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.
- Full-auto mode has high recoil.
- Auto
- Below average crit chance
- Below average damage
- Low disposition
- Semi-Auto
- Very low damage
- Low status chance
- Low disposition
- Burst
- Very low damage
- Very low status chance
- Low disposition
Comparisons:
- Tiberon Prime (Auto), compared to Tiberon (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (46 vs. 44)
- Higher total damage (46 vs. 44)
- Lower base critical chance (16.00% vs. 26.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.8x vs. 2.4x)
- Higher base status chance (32.00% vs. 16.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (59.24 vs. 180.04)
- Lower burst DPS (493.53 vs. 500.13)
- Higher sustained DPS (353.36 vs. 307.24)
- Lower fire rate (8.33 vs. 9.09)
- Larger magazine (42 vs. 30)
- Faster reload time (2 vs. 2.26)
- More polarities (
vs.
)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 10)
- Lower disposition (●●●○○ (1.00x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.10x))
Acquisition[]
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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[]
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.