Act 5 · Patch 13.05

Guardian

Rifle · Semi · 2250 credits

Through a heavy shield at close range, Guardian needs 3 body shots.

One tap or nothing — a rifle for a player who wins first shots. Bands published to 50 m · magazine 12 · reload 2.5s · wall penetration high.

Shots to kill

Range	No shield			Light shield			Heavy shield
	H	B	L	H	B	L	H	B	L
0–50 m	1	2	3	1	2	3	1	3	4

Damage by band

Range	Head	Body	Leg
0–50 m	195	65	48.75

The duel, in numbers

Body shots, heavy shield: 3
Head shots, heavy shield: 1
That burst takes: 0.38 s at 5.25 / s
Best band: 0–50 m

The burst time counts the gaps between shots, not the shots — the first bullet leaves at zero. It is how long the burst lasts, never how fast you react.

What else this money buys

What this page will not print

Recoil pattern
First-shot deviation
Bloom per shot
Wallbang % per surface
Sample size

Riot publishes a single wall-penetration level and no recoil figures at all. This weapon’s level is High — the rest of that column would be invented to fill the shape of a drawing.