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    Secondary Weapons Fundamentals

    Learn Warframe's Secondary weapon types, sidearm roles, and when pistols, hand cannons, beams, launchers, Kitguns, and advanced variants deserve attention.

    55 min
    Sidearm Ready
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    What you will learn

    • Explain what Secondary weapons are.
    • Understand why Secondary weapons are not just weaker Primaries.
    • Identify common Secondary weapon archetypes.
    • Compare pistols, dual pistols, machine pistols, hand cannons, throwing secondaries, beam secondaries, shotgun secondaries, launcher secondaries, and Kitguns.
    • Recognize Incarnon, Kuva, Tenet, Prime, Prisma, Vandal, Wraith, and Syndicate Secondary variants.
    • Choose a Secondary based on backup damage, utility, status application, precision, ammo behavior, or build synergy.
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