Tenet Cycron

The Tenet Cycron is the Tenet variant of the beam pistol, with improved critical chance, status chance, and total damage. Its beam has also gained the ability to chain between multiple enemies.
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals damage.
*Takes 0.6 seconds of firing to ramp up the damage from 30% to 100%. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 30% over 2 seconds.
*Innate 1 meter punch through.
*Beam can chain up to 2 nearby enemies within 7 meters from the initial target, each doing 60% of the main beam's damage.
**Enemy corpses will still allow the beam to connect to nearby enemies.
**If multiple enemies are hit with the main beam thanks to punch through, up to 2 chains are generated from each of them. An enemies can be hit by the main beam, and by one chain per other enemies hit by the main beam.
*Does not use ammo pickups; ammo regenerates over time.
**Has a 0.5 second delay after the weapon stops firing before regenerating ammo. Then, regenerates 40 ammo per second; takes 1 second to regenerate a fully depleted battery excluding the delay. This delay may be reduced/increased with (Primed), , .
**Does not benefit from mods that increase maximum ammo, due to lack of an ammo pool.
**Does not benefit from reload-triggered mods such as .
*Innate two polarities.
*Comes with an additional bonus , , , , , , or damage, based on the Sister's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.
**Valence Fusion can optionally change the resulting output damage type, and can upgrade the bonus increase (up to 60%).
*Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
*Listed Mastery Rank requirement is not enforced - the weapon may theoretically be obtained at any mastery rank by acquiring and vanquishing a Sister that has this weapon equipped.
==Acquisition==
==Notes==
*Upon striking an enemy, the beam chains up to 2 enemies within 7 meters of the main target. Each chain beam does 60% of the main beam's damage.
**Headshotting the original target does not affect the chain damage.
**The beam will not chain to a Nullifier through its shield should it connect with a target outside or partially enclosed by it.
**The beam can also continue to chain to enemies even if targeting a dead enemy or an enemy who is dead but in a dying animation.
**Compared to its Kuva counterpart, the , that chains within 9 meters at 50% of its main damage, the Tenet Cycron generally deals more damage albeit at a shorter range. But this is not considering the critical stat differences between the two weapons, as while the latter got a far higher critical chance stat (7% against 20%), the former has a far superior critical multiplier stat (5x against 1.8x).
**Because the weapon fires a chaining damage, it is functionally similar to the Grineer .
*As the weapon requires charging up to recover its ammunition, players should be mindful of letting the weapon recharge by holding fire - keeping the trigger pressed down will prevent it from fully charging, resulting in an overall DPS drop due to the forced one-second delay in recharging being persistently active.
** can help extend the attack duration by increasing ammo capacity, but care is still needed to ensure the weapon gets to reload first.
**The absence of needing ammo pickups does give the Tenet Cycron a slight advantage over the , as the former can be always used while the latter can run out of ammo especially in prolonged fights.
* Punch Through will cause the main beam to chain independently from each additional target hit, potentially doubling or tripling the total damage output when fired into a crowd. The chain from the target hit after the Punch Through can deal damage to the first target, and vice versa.
==Media==
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==Patch History==
==See Also==
*, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
*, a Kuva weapon with a similar chaining beam.
*, a Grineer weapon with a different chaining beam.
*, a Corpus rifle with a different chaining beam.
*, an Archgun with a different chaining beam.
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