Warden

Rifle · Auto · 2900 credits

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

Rifle price with a 2x scope and the same 50 body damage at every range — Riot built it as the long-range rifle. Bands published to 50 m · magazine 18 · reload 2.5s · wall penetration medium.

Every number on this page is from Riot’s patch 13.06 note, released 22 September 2026, quoted as published.

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	3	3	1	3	4

Damage by band

Range	Head	Body	Leg
0–50 m	200	50	42

The duel, in numbers

Body shots, heavy shield: 3
Head shots, heavy shield: 1
That burst takes: 0.31 s at 6.5 / 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

Warden balance history

Riot's notes from patch 1.01 to 13.06 change nothing about Warden.

Every Warden skin (1)

Riot's catalog lists 1 skins for the Warden. 0 of them upgrade through more than one level; the rest are a single finish.

Galleria Warden

In other languages Riot's client prints the Warden as واردن (Arabic) · Guardián (Spanish (Latin America)) · ウォーデン (Japanese) · 워든 (Korean) · Quản Đốc (Vietnamese) · 悍狼 (Chinese (Simplified)) · 守望者 (Chinese (Traditional)).

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 Medium — the rest of that column would be invented to fill the shape of a drawing.