Zymos is an Infested pistol that releases explosive spores. On headshots, the spores burrow into the target, stunning and dealing continuous damage before exploding to release 6 additional spores that seek nearby enemies.
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Characteristics[edit | edit source]
This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- High
Puncture and good Impact damage – effective against armor and shields. - Above average critical multiplier.
- Very high status chance.
- Shots have a guaranteed Impact proc.
- Shots explode in a 3.3 meter radius upon impact with a surface or enemy, inflicting Toxin damage.
- Innate Toxin damage – effective against Flesh and bypasses Shielded and Proto Shields.
- Headshots stun targets for 1 second and deals continuous damage before exploding for 953 Toxin damage and knocking down the initial target, then scattering 6 spores that home-in on nearby enemies within 20 meters, dealing 23 damage on contact with a guaranteed chance to proc Impact on targets over 7m away from the initial target in addition to 333 Toxin damage in a radius each.
- Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
- Can benefit from Fulmination ( Primed).
- Innate
- Innate and polarities.
Disadvantages:
- No Slash damage – less effective against health.
- Explosion has innate Toxin damage – less effective against Machinery, Robotics, and Fossilized.
- Very low critical chance.
- Very low fire rate.
- Very slow reload speed.
- All projectiles have travel time.
- Explosions inflict self-stagger.
- Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 70% from central impact.
- Headshot explosion delay allows enemies to move out of the explosion range.
- Extremely low ammo capacity; requires just 3 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.
Acquisition[edit | edit source]
Zymos is acquired by reaching Rank 1 - Stranger with the Entrati. Father sells the main blueprint for 
2,000 and component blueprints for 1,000; a total of 4,000 is needed for all parts. The main blueprint is also offered as a rank-up reward.
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 20,000 |
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 1 |
Time: 12 hrs | ||
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 190
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 Blueprints Price: 2,000
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Barrel •  1,000
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20,000 |
 20 |
 5 |
 8 |
 4 |
Time: 12 hrs |
| Rush: 25
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| Receiver • 1,000
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20,000 |
 30 |
5 |
 8 |
 5 |
Time: 12 hrs |
| Rush: 25
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Notes[edit | edit source]
- One barrel blueprint is required to reach Rank 1 - Clearance: Agnesis with the Necraloid.
- Initial 953 Toxin damage explosion will almost always be affected by headshot and headcrit bonuses, receiving double damage in addition to double critical multiplier.
- Secondary projectiles from the initial explosion are affected differently by mods and buffing effects.
- Damage from mods like Hornet Strike and Magnum Force apply to the 23 contact damage, but do not apply to the 333 Toxin explosion.
- Spores randomly select targets within 20m of the host target. This range is not affected by Fulmination.
- Spore contact damage has a guaranteed chance to proc Impact on secondary targets more than 7m away from the host target, but has 0% natural status chance to proc modded elements.
- Spores randomly select targets within 20m of the host target. This range is not affected by
- Elemental mods apply normally.
- Faction Damage applies normally.
- Multishot increases the number of initial projectiles, but not the 6 spores that are released from each explosion.
- Critical Chance and Critical Damage bonuses are applied twice.
- Flat Critical Chance Bonuses are applied twice. Once multiplied by modded critical chance, and again added last.
- Critical Chance = 5% × ((1 + Modded Crit Chance) + Flat Crit Chance) × (1 + Modded Crit Chance) + Flat Crit Chance
- Critical Damage = 2.3 × (1 + Modded Crit Damage)2
- For example, with Cat's Eye, Pistol Gambit and Target Cracker, the secondary projectiles have:
- Shooting the initial projectile through Volt's Electric Shield or Mutalist Quanta's Orbs will not affect the secondary projectiles.
- Damage from mods like Hornet Strike and Magnum Force apply to the 23 contact damage, but do not apply to the 333
Tips[edit | edit source]
- Trick Mag in the Exilus slot will make up for the low maximum ammo.
- Due to the nature of critical scaling, Critical mods are optimal despite the 5% base crit chance, and flat Critical Chance bonuses from Harrow's Covenant, Adarza Kavat's Cat's Eye, and Arcane Avenger are further multiplied by modded critical chance.
Bugs[edit | edit source]
- In multiplayer, poor to moderate network conditions can cause spores to never appear, despite landing headshots. Spore explosions also never occur regardless of network conditions.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The Zymos was first seen and wielded by the Zealot Proselytizer in the third episode of Nightwave: Series 2 – The Emissary.
- Depending on the level of the enemy (except for Infested enemies), upon performing a headshot, the enemy's head with swell up with an inflating noise before the spores explode.
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See Also[edit | edit source]
- Keratinos, the melee counterpart to this weapon.
Patch History[edit | edit source]
Hotfix 29.2.2 (2020-10-06)
- Fixed missing Blueprint locations for the Zymos when viewing in the Market.
Update 29.1 (2020-09-17)
- Fixed Zymos seeking swarms not being able to critically hit.
- Fixed Zymos not spitting out the homing spore projectiles after the headshot explosion triggers for Clients.
Hotfix 29.0.8 (2020-09-10)
- Decreased projectile spread of Multishot projectiles
- Increased projectile speed from 59 to 79
- Decreasing spread from Multishot and increasing the projectile speed makes landing headshots with all the projectiles a bit easier.
Hotfix 29.0.6 (2020-09-01)
- Clip size increased from 9 to 17.
- Ammo pool increased from 27 to 51.
Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)
- Introduced.
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