Serration
+90% Damage
RifleSerration
Near-mandatory damage foundation on rifles.
Increases rifle damage. The default +Damage slot on almost every primary rifle build.
- Polarity
Madurai- Compat
- Rifle
- Drain @ rank
- 9 / 5matched
- Max effect
- +90% Damage
Rank scrubber
Rank 5 / 5
- +90% Damage
Drain 9 unmatched · 5 with Madurai match · max 9
Overview
Starts at (rank 0)
- +15% Damage
Max rank (5)
- +90% Damage
Rank Table
| Rank | Effect | Drain | Matched |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | +15% Damage | 4 | 2 |
| 1 | +30% Damage | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | +45% Damage | 6 | 3 |
| 3 | +60% Damage | 7 | 4 |
| 4 | +75% Damage | 8 | 4 |
| 5 | +90% Damage | 9 | 5 |
Capacity & Forma
At max rank
Unmatched
9
Madurai match
5
Max drain 14 unmatched / 7 on a matching Madurai polarity. Forma the V early — this is a forever slot on most rifles.
Drop Sources
Farm call: Farm early-planet Spy Rotation C (Hapke, Cambria, Arval, Suisei) at 8.6% — reliable and low-friction.
- TopCeres/Hapke (Spy), Rotation CRare · 8.60%
- Earth/Cambria (Spy), Rotation CRare · 8.60%
- Mars/Arval (Spy), Rotation CRare · 8.60%
- Mercury/Suisei (Spy), Rotation CRare · 8.60%
- Phobos/Grildrig (Spy), Rotation CRare · 8.60%
Worth the Slot?
- Default include on almost every rifle that is not already saturating damage elsewhere.
- Still correct on high-status or crit rifles — raw multiplicative damage stacks with both.
- Skip only when Amalgam Serration, Heavy Caliber, or Galvanized Aptitude is intentionally replacing it.
Swap Instead?
Same damage-slot conversation — pick the peer when the condition fits.
Amalgam Serration
+155% Damage · +25% Sprint Speed
You want sprint speed and can live with −10% damage vs full Serration.
Heavy Caliber
+165% Damage · -55% Accuracy
The gun already sprays / beams and accuracy loss barely matters.
Galvanized Aptitude
+80% Status Chance · On Kill: · +40% Direct Damage per Status Type affecting the target for 20s. Stacks up to 2x.
Status procs are online and you want on-kill damage stacks instead of flat +Damage.
Popular On
Weapons that list Serration in Popular Mods (157).
Notes
- Does not appear on every modern “popular mods” list because builds assume it — treat absence as oversight, not a skip signal.