Rat King

Rat King
Attributes
Season	1
Type	Sidearm
Slot	Kinetic
Rarity	Exotic
Damage Type	Kinetic
Description	We are small, but we are legion.
Statistics
Impact	49
Range	30
Stability	40
Handling	40
Reload Speed	40
Rounds Per Minute	300
Magazine	15
Zoom	12
Inventory Size	80
Aim Assistance	60
Airborne Effectiveness	31
Recoil	80
Bounce Intensity	20
Bounce Direction	Tends Right

Acquisition
	Exotic Archive at the Tower
	Rat King's Crew Not available anymore.
	Monument to Lost Lights Red War Exotics.

Rat King PvP Stats
Optimal Time-to-Kill	1.00s
Optimal Kill	3 crit 3 body
Body Shot Time-to-Kill	1.20s
Body Shots to Kill	7 body
Crit Damage	38
Body Damage	29

Rat King is an Exotic Sidearm.

Perks - Curated Roll

Intrinsic

• Rat Pack — Fires full auto. Nearby Rat Kings increase strength.

Barrel

• Smallbore - Dual strength barrel.
  • Increases Range.
  • Increases Stability.

Magazine

• Tactical Mag - This weapon has multiple tactical improvements.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
  • Slightly increases Reload Speed.
  • Slightly increases magazine size.

Trait

• Vermin — Reloading immediately after a kill grants a brief period of invisibility.

Grip

• Smooth Grip — This weapon is slightly easier to hold and aim.
  • Slightly increases stability.
  • Slightly increases handling speed.

Catalyst

• Infestation — Improved aim assist and recoil direction. Refreshes health on Vermin invisibility trigger.

Rat King Catalyst can be obtained by completing Nightfall strikes. Its upgrade is unlocked by defeating enemies with this weapon. Kills by fireteam members also using Rat King will give additional progress.

The Catalyst increases this weapon's Aim Assistance and Recoil Direction. It also adds the Infestation perk to this weapon and Masterworks it.

Lore

The stories are passed from child to child, whispered in the streets and on the playground like any good legend. "Don't ever venture beyond the wall and sight of the Tower," parents warn, citing these cautionary tales that speak of the boy's many deaths. Exposure. Hunger. Sickness. Cutthroats. Living nightmares. And on. And on. The children, however, have their own truths. To them, the boy never died. They call him the Rat King. The children believe he leads the forgotten among them out of the City on grand adventures. They say he and his misfit army saved the world. But children say many things, and the Vanguard maintains their official stance: there is no Rat King and his army never existed. That's what the elders believe. I choose to believe otherwise.

Images

Weapon Ornaments

• Black Plague
• Catacombs
• Climate Change
• Opalized Nobility

Patch History

• 6.3.0
  • Radius required to activate its perk increased from 15m to 20m.
• 4.0.0.1
  • Rat King and Assassin's Cowl
    • Updated to use the new Void Invisibility buff.
• 2.2.1
  • Four new Exotic weapon catalysts are now available to drop in Nightfall, strikes, and the Crucible
    • Rat King (Nightfall, strikes)
• 1.2.0.2
  • Fixed an issue where Rat King was incorrectly granting ammo to alternate weapons
• 1.2.0
  • Enhanced the total stat benefits of running with a pack
  • Benefits are front-loaded; there are now larger damage benefits when two people equip the Exotic, with slight damage increases for each additional player
  • The Rat Pack perk can now activate and stack while Rat King is stowed
  • Added HUD notification text for when the Rat Pack perk is active
  • Increased ammo inventory
  • Added full auto

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