Legendaries: What they do!

As a fan of Borderlands, I have definitely seen my fair share of legendary weapons and I know a lot of others who would have had the same thing, so we created this guide in order to show you the kinds of fabulous legendary weapons the amazing world of Pandora has to offer and what they can do to their (more precisely, YOUR) enemies.

We host a plethora of different legendary weapons from the crappy Wildcat to the all powerful Redemption rocket launcher for you to find on here, or you can even set it as a goal in your quest to liquify as many bandits you can, spray some crimson on them Lances and ultimately nuke the Destroyer!

Weapon Type: What sub-type of weapon it is, such as Combat Shotguns and Assault Shotguns.
Red Text: What the Red flavoured Text says.
What It does: Description of attribute or ability
Part that gives this effect: The part of the gun that makes it legendary, such as the Barrel or the Scope.
Extra Info: This one's self-explanitory, it's just extra bits of info about the weapon.

Weapon Type: Revolver
Red Text: A beast of many forms - Fire, Lightning and Poison
What It does: Explosive element with a chance of doing another element aswell
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: The special effect of this revolver makes it a very versatile weapon as it means you only need one weapon for any elemental situation.

Weapon Type: Repeater Pistol
Red Text: Pain Heals.
What It does: Passive health regen while being held
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: Because this pistols effect comes from the accesssory, this gun ranges from terrible to great, and as such should be used like your average repeater pistol.

Weapon Type: Revolver
Red Text: Long and Strong
What it does: Increased accuracy and damage
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: There is nothing notably unique about this legendary, with it's only special effect being increased stats. That being said, because it's the barrel that gives these stats, it is possible to find powerful Masher Anacondas.
Weapon Type: Repeater Pistol
Red Text: Feel the Sting
What It does: Always corrosive. Fires two-round bursts. Increased damage compared to equal parted corrosive pistols.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: This is another weapon where the special effect comes from the accessory, again, meaning that it can range from terrible to powerful depending on the rest of the parts, although the fact that it fires in two-round bursts, coupled with the extra damage and the corrosive damage-over-time damage give it more possible use even with terrible parts.

Weapon Type: Repeater Pistol
Red Text: 12 bullets invade your skull
What It does: Fires the entire magazine in one burst while aiming down sights
Part that gives this effect: Scope
Extra Info: This is an odd weapon to use, because of the fact that unless you aim down the sight this pistol acts like a normal pistol. Once you aim down the sight however, It gains increased fire rate and one pull of the trigger will cause it to fire until either the magazine is empty or you stop aiming down the sights. Despite what the red text says, it can spawn with more than 12 bullets in a clip.

Weapon Type: Machine Pistol
Red Text: Slice Slice
What It does: +300% melee damage. A portion of melee damage dealt is returned as health. Increased fire rate and accuracy.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: The unique effect of this gun is partially broken, because the bonus melee damage that the part is meant to add doesn't actually work. As such, you will only deal normal melee damage. It should also be noted that this gun is exceedingly rare.

Weapon Type: Revolver
Red Text: It's a helluva thing...
What it does: +200% Critical Hit damage. Increased damage and recoil. Decreased fire rate.
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: This revolver takes a bit more skill to use than your average revolver because of it's bonus stats, making it more of a sniper's weapon than a close quarters weapon.

Weapon Type: Revolver
Red Text: Give Sick
What it does: Always x4 Corrosive. Damage-over-time can spread to nearby enemies. Slightly increased damage.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: This weapon's special effect is very powerful against tightly packed enemies due to it's spreading ability, not to mention the flat damage bonus can pack quite a punch.

Weapon Type: Repeater Pistol
Red Text: Bring the HEAT!
What It does: Always Incendiary x4. Slightly increased damage and accuracy.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: This is a very powerful weapon against flesh as it will add fire damage-over-time on every hit. The amount of fire damage this weapon does is equal to x6, although the game only shows up to x4.

Weapon Type: Repeater Pistol
Red Text: Double Whammy
What It does: Fires two-round bursts with two projectiles per shot. Bullets are spaced horizontally to the left and right of the crosshair. Increased clip size.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: This gun handles like an upgraded double pistol, having an extra projectile per shot but instead of consuming two ammo per shot it fire in two-round bursts meaning that it still consumes two ammo per trigger pull but sends four bullets towards your target.

Weapon Type: Machine Pistol
Red Text: Big Tony says "Hi"
What it does: Increased magazine size. Slightly increased recoil reduction and reload speed.
Part that gives this effect: Magazine
Extra Info: The bonuses that come with this gun can become quite powerful with the right parts, turning it into a psuedo-SMG for a pistol-build character.

Weapon Type: Revolver
Red Text: Unending Firepower
What it does: Revolver Ammo regeneration. Slight increase to damage, fire rate and recoil reduction.
Part that gives this effect: Body
Extra Info: The unique effect of this weapon is the same across all of Tediore's legendaries, with the exception of a few slight stat differences, all Tediore legendaries will have ammo regen.

Weapon Type: Repeater Pistol
Red Text: Ammo is no longer an issue.
What it does: Repeater Ammo regen. Increased damage.
Part that gives this effect: Body
Extra Info: As stated above, this gives ammo regen and a slight stat bonus. Unless you get a standout model it's best to just keep this pistol for the ammo regen.

Weapon Type: Repeater Pistol
Red Text: Your move, Creep.
What it does: Fires a three-round burst with three projectiles per shot. Increased Recoil.
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: The special effect of this weapon is quite like the S&S Gemini, but firing an extra pellet and an extra shot per burst. It should also be noted that the effect comes from the barrel instead of the accessory. This means that it can come with a double accessory, bringing the pellet count up to four and slightly increasing magazine size.

Weapon Type: Repeater Pistol
Red Text: Never stop shooting!
What it does: Increased magazine size, damage and fire rate.
Part that gives this effect: Magazine
Extra Info: The effects from this pistol combined with the fact that it's from the magazine give this legendary a large amount of potential. This weapon can be compared with the S&S Thanatos, due it's increased stats with no downsides and the fact they come from the magazine.

Weapon Type: Machine Pistol
Red Text: Vengeance is yours
What it does: Chance to ignore shields
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: This pistol's special effect is broken. It sometimes works and sometimes does not. On the plus side the part itself is statistically identical to a high quality barrel and as such should be considered as a reliable machine pistol if found with good parts.

Weapon Type: Submachine Gun
Red Text: The ultimate close quarters feline.
What it does: Supports a significant magazine size, but reduces accuracy
Part that gives this effect: Magazine
Extra Info: Though extra ammunition is a great idea, it's not worth the hefty decrease in accuracy and the time it takes to reload. The best tactic with this is to go up to their faces and unloaded everywhere but their face, or sell it for some good, slightly hard earned money

Weapon Type: Submachine Gun
Red Text: Smack 'em
What it does: Improves accuracy under sustained fire and increased elemental effects. +50% critical hit damage
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: Considered the most accurate SMG on Pandora because of superior handling and a tighter pattern, it also gives a nice boost in elemental damage, making it a lethal combo of accuracy and tech. However, the downside is that it lacks the stopping power, making it a b!tch in long range combat. It is also meant to increase critical hit damage (as the name would suggest) but the effect is defunct

Weapon Type: Submachine Gun
Red Text: We Don't Need No Water...
What it does: Every shot generates an incendiary event and has more incendiary damage
Part that gives this effect: Accesory
Extra info: Considered one of the most powerful weapons in Borderlands, it's power lies in it's extremely powerful incendiary effect. With every single bullet bursting enemies into flames, it's effect stacks multiple times. Even fire resistant enemies (like Guardians and Badass Fire Skags) can succumb to the powerful stacking effects of this gun. No wonder it's called a HellFire!

Weapon Type: Submachine Gun
Red Text: Hallelujah
What it does: Regenerates ammunition on itself
Part that gives this effect: Body
Extra Info: Like every other Tediore weapons, this particular SMG does not support any special abilities except regenerating it's own ammunition. However, because it's Tediore, it sacrifices accuracy and damage for an increased reload speed but if you can't be bothered wasting money on SMG ammunition, then just hold it in your hands for awhile. Not really worth keeping if you're Roland...

Weapon Type: Submachine Gun
Red Text: Tear it up
What it does: Three round burst fire with decreased accuracy but increased recoil, fire rate, damage and magazine size
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: The Gasher enjoys a good, "up in yo face" engagement rather than the usual close quarters combat. It's decreased accuracy and strange characteristics makes it an unpopular weapon of choice. Though a Combat Rifle can better suit the part, the Gasher does tend to come with a superior magazine size and faster weapon swap speed.

Weapon Type: Combat Shotgun
Red Text: Five heads of Death
What it does: Spread pattern is in five distinct horizontal groupings
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: The Hydra has a very high accuracy rating but it's horizontal spread is quite large to suit the pattern, thus, making it perfect against rakk and hordes of midgets, but normally you wouldn't choose the Hydra for it's accuracy. It's also known it can have a unique part known as the Carnage, which adds rockets instead of bullets to the Hydra, but it won't fire the rockets in any pattern

Weapon Type: Combat Shotgun
Red Text: One Bad Dog!
What it does: Adds an extra 20 rounds to the magazine, increases fire rate and reduces reload time
Part that gives this effect: Magazine
Extra Info: The Bulldog is a great gun if you like guns that never seem to stop shooting due to it's large magazine. It's also good with accuracy because it doesn't support a fixed spread pattern while shooting. Can spawn with the barrel which makes 20 rockets instead of bullets and can become a very dangerous weapon when found with a hunter's prefix

Weapon Type: Assault Shotgun
Red Text: Ahhh.... Fresh Meat!
What it does: Adds a five-round burst with an extremely high fire rate with each shot being 3 pellets
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: This assault shotgun doesn't do as much damage as others, it compliments it with an extremely high fire rate and automatic burst fire rate, though best used with the "hit and run" tactic due to it's mediocre accuracy. The Butcher also has a chance to spawn with any elemental effect except fire

Weapon Type: Combat Shotgun
Red Text: Sniper Rifles are for Chumps.
What it does: Adds 30% critical hit damage and increases accuracy with alot less bullet spread
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: Though a hugely accurate shotgun, the critical hit damage comes at the expense of fire rate. The Striker is much better with a scope as that will let you get headshots at medium range distance. It's often good for the raw damage if your not much of an elemental wizard

Weapon Type: Assault Shotgun
Red Text: Bring our your Dead
What it does: Adds on a 3x to 4x corrosive element
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: A pretty standard shotgun with a corrosive accessory attached and is good for the "hit and run" tactic as you would just hide and wait for the enemy to corrode to death. However, this weapon is not good for close quarters desperation attempts

Weapon Type: Assault Shotgun
Red Text: Cross their heart, hope they die.
What it does: Spread pattern is of an upright cross, explosive and has a faster reload speed
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: The spread pattern of this shotgun is brilliant against humanoid enemies who will be hit by the vertical spread when firing multiple shots. However, because of it being a fixed pattern, always disregard the accuracy of the shotgun. The fully automatic hip fire is also good when your bleeding out, as all the shots fire are all explosive

Weapon Type: Combat Shotgun
Red Text: I can do this all day...
What it does: Regenerates ammunition
Part that gives this effect: Body
Extra Info: This is basically another Tediore weapon that regenerates ammunition over time. It's best used to regenerate shotgun ammo without having to purchase it from munition vendors. Otherwise, the weapon generally fetches a pretty sweet price when sold

Weapon Type: Combat Shotgun
Red Text: Have a nice day!
What it does: Adds incendiary from 1x to 4x and has a fixed "smiley" spread pattern
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: This shotgun has quite the unusual powerful elemental accessory for a shotgun. It might not set enemies on fire often, it's still a rather deadly weapon. Accuracy means nothing for this weapon as it's spread pattern is fixed but it's generally a good idea to be up in someone's face or murder groups of psycho's or rakk

Weapon Type: Assault Shotgun
Red Text: Drop the Hammer!
What it does: Explosive from 2x to 4x and supporting very high damage with a spread pattern of a tilted hammer
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: The Hammer doesn't benefit much from it's explosive element but it mostly relies on it's raw damage and because Vladof has very good fire rates it's always a good moment when the action reaches a critical stage and you NEED that moment to unleash a metal storm all over your enemies

Weapon Type: Support Machine Gun
Red Text: Ogre SMASH!
What It does: Always Explosive with a high chance to cause explosions. Slighty increased damage.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: The effect of this weapon is basically giving an explosive accessory that is better in every way over the basic one. With a high fire and large magazine this gun can be used with "Spray-and-Pray" tactics.

Weapon Type: Burst Rifle
Red Text: 2 more bullets makes all the difference
What It does: increased the shots fired per burst up to 5. Slightly increased accuracy and magazine size.
Part that gives this effect: Magazine
Extra Info: This weapon essentially takes what is good about a Dahl Burst Rifle and increases it. The five-round burst and decreased recoil allow this weapon to land 5 critical hits in one pull of the trigger with relative ease. It should be noted that the magazine size will always be 21 by default, which is amusing because of the fact that after four pulls of the trigger you will have one bullet left in the magazine.

Weapon Type: Burst Rifle
Red Text: The destructor has come
What It does: Fire the entire magazine in one burst while aiming down the sights. Slighly increased damage and accuracy.
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: This weapon acts identically to the Invader pistol, also made by Hyperion. With the right amount of recoil reduction this weapon can be used to land multiple critical hits in succesion before having to reload. It should be noted that this gun can come with a 6 round Pounder magazine.

Weapon Type: Support Machine Gun
Red Text: Dragon Fire!
What It does: Always Incendiary with high chance to burn. Significantly increased magazine size and accuracy.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: THIS WEAPON WILL NOT HAVE THE DRACO NAME OR THE ORANGE RARITY! A glitch in the coding makes this weapon not actually spawn with the draco name, causing it to look like just another incediary support MG. It should be noted that the accessory from this weapon does not look like the normal incediary accessory, instead being a large cylinder. If you happen to come across a combat rifle by S&S with a huge magazine and x4 fire, grab it, because it could be a draco in disguise.

Weapon Type: Burst Rifle
Red Text: Hold your ground... Forever.
What It does: Combat Rifle Ammo regen
Part that gives this effect: Body
Extra Info: Another Tediore legendary, another gun with ammo regen. Nothing really special about this one. Keep it for the regen or sell it if nothing else.

Weapon Type: Support Machine Gun
Red Text: TORGUE! B@stard Guns for B@stard People!
What It does: Significantly increased damage and magazine size. Decreased accuracy.
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: This weapon basically trades accuracy for damage and magazine size. It should be treated like a shotgun, only being used at close range for maximum damage output.

Weapon Type: Support Machine Gun
Red Text: Guns of the Revolution will never fall silent!
What It does: Significantly increased magazine size. Decreased fire rate.
Part that gives this effect: Magazine
Extra Info: This weapon will always have a large magazine. It is often a hit-or-miss weapon when it comes to being useful due to it's low fire-rate combined with Vladof's mediocre damage often meaning that getting one with terrible parts can mean it's useless.

Weapon Type: Pump-action Rifle
Red Text: I have you in my eye, sir.
What It does: Significantly increased zoom and bullet velocity. Increased crit damage while aiming down sight.
Part that gives this effect: Scope
Extra Info: This weapon is essentially a proper sniper rifle, a weapon to be used at a long distance against enemies who don't know you're there.

Weapon Type: Semi-automatic Rifle
Red Text: Sniper Killer... Qu'est que c'est
What It does: Fully automatic. Increased fire rate, magazine size and recoil reduction.
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: THIS WEAPON WILL NOT HAVE AN ORANGE RARITY! There is a glitch in the code that causes this weapon to not have the appropriate rarity, causing it instead to be green, blue or purple instead of the usual shade of orange. In terms of usage this weapon can be used like a high damage, low magazine size combat rifle.

Weapon Type: Semi-automatic Rifle
Red Text: BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM!
What It does: Increased fire rate and fires a five-round burst when aiming down the scope. Decreased damage. Increased magazine size.
Part that gives this effect: Magazine
Extra Info: This weapon sacrifices damage per shot for the five-round burst while aiming down the scope. It will always have a 15 round magazine and paired with Hyperion's accuracy, this weapon can dish out multiple critical hits in quick succesion before having to reload.

Weapon Type: Pump-action Rifle
Red Text: Makes their brains hurt
What It does: Fires six pellets per shot. Decreased accuracy and damage. Increased recoil.
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: While this weapon deals less damage per projectile, the increased projectile count makes this the highest damage per shot out of all the legendary sniper rifles.

Weapon Type: Pump-action Rifle
Red Text: Pele demands a sacrifice!
What It does: Always incediary x4. Can cause fireballs on shot. Slightly increased fire rate.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: This weapon follows in the line of the Firehawk and the HellFire in that it's all about doing as much fire damage-over-time as possible. The bonus fire raite also helps to achieve this. It should be noted that this has an abnormally high drop rate compared to other legendaries.

Weapon Type: Semi-automatic Rifle
Red Text: A hunter lives among the stars...
What It does: Always shock. Increased magazine size. Bullets ricochet once and then split into three.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: This weapon is very powerful, having a high chance to cause a shock explosion as well as the splitting ricochet, if mastered, can triple the damage output of this weapon. It should be noted that the bullet will not ricochet if it hits an enemy first.

Weapon Type: Semi-automatic Rifle
Red Text: I LIKE IT!
What It does: Always explosive. Will cause an explosion with every bullet. Decreased fire rate.
Part that gives this effect: Accessory
Extra Info: This weapon can be extremely deadly due to the large size of the explosions caused by it's special effect.

Weapon Type: Pump-action Rifle
Red Text: For the Motherland.
What It does: Significantly increased fire rate and reload speed. Slightly increased damage.
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: This weapon should be used more as a "combat rifle" than a sniper rifle, due to the high fire rate and reload speed, coupled with the mediocre accuracy and the average damage.

Weapon Type: Rocket Launcher
Red Text: Beware the Horde!
What it does: At regular intervals, the rockets will release a smaller rocket at an angle to it's flightpath which consumes three rounds per shot
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: The Mongol is best used against clusters of enemies that are difficult to hit. It's got a nice wide spread for it to be highly effective against enemies such as Crawmerax the Invincible and such. It's also fun to use as fireworks with a shock element as the rocket will detonate after a certain period of time mid-flight

Weapon Type: Rocket Launcher
Red Text: Death rains from above
What it does: Greatly increases damage and reload speed while firing airburst rockets which explode after a certain distance which releases more rockets at a 90 degree angle from the original rocket
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: The Nidhogg (based off an epic Norse mythological dragon) is a highly technical rocket launcher which is capable of unleashing extreme damage if used properly, much like the S&S Orion. The child rockets are capable of dealing as much damage as the parent rocket, hence why it is a technical rocket launcher

Weapon Type: Rocket Launcher
Red Text: The Unstoppable Force
What it does: Rockets will explode at regular intervals mid-flight
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: The Rhino's main projectile deals quite moderate impact on enemy targets, however, you shouldn't be aiming directly at the target. The Rhino is greatly used at hordes of enemies due to it's consistent exploding mid-flight and it's amazing 4x explosive elemental tech

Weapon Type: Rocket Launcher
Red Text: Monster Kill!
What it does: More damage, larger blast radius, but slow rocket velocity and uses 4 rounds per shot
Part that gives this effect: Barrel
Extra Info: The most powerful single shot rocket launcher, the Redemption (a reference to the Unreal Tournament series from a weapon known as the Redeemer) destroys hordes of enemies with huge damage and blast radius which in turn sacrifices rocket speed and consumes alot of ammo. Though the barrel can never have helix or burst fire barrels, it can spawn with an elemental effect of any type.

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