Tediore is a weapons manufacturer on Pandora. Their primary feature is a very quick reload speed. Weapons made by this manufacturer are common and are well known for being the cheapest and most accessible.

In the original Borderlands game, Tediore makes legendary grade weapons that innately regenerate ammunition. These weapons follow a "self-defence" style naming scheme.

In Borderlands 2, Tediore is known for producing disposable weapons which, instead of being reloaded, are thrown away and explode. The power of the explosion produced is proportional to the amount of ammo left in the weapon. New weapons are digistructed directly into the Vault Hunter's hands, loaded with ammo from the player's inventory.

Borderlands

Products

The following are items made by Tediore.

Unique Weapons:

• Repeater Pistol - Chiquito Amigo (The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC only.)
• Submachine Gun - Bone Shredder

Legendary Weapons:

• Combat Rifle - Guardian

• Repeater Pistol - Protector
• Revolver - Equalizer
• Shotgun - Defender
• Submachine Gun - Savior

Class Mods:

• Berserker - Berserker, Bombardier, Common Man Tediore Loyalty
• Hunter - Ranger, Scavenger

  

Grenade Mods:

• Contact - Explosive

Shields:

• Health Regeneration - Healing, Restorative, Panacea

Pearlescent Weapons:

• Combat Rifle - Avenger (The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC only.)

Weapon Tiers

• Tediore Value = Level 13 - 21
• Tediore Special = Level 22 - 30
• Tediore Super = Level 31 - 39
• Tediore Limited = Level 40 - 47
• Tediore Supreme = Level 48+

Usage

Tediore guns have reduced damage, as well as increased spread. This usually makes them inferior compared to the weapons from other manufacturers, and not so well suited as a primary weapon. However, they have exceptional reload speed and excellent swap-in and swap-out speed. This makes them excellent as emergency side-arms. For example, a Tediore Anarchy will never match a Torgue Anarchy in terms of firepower. But, in certain cases, (like in the case of a skag ambush) the Tediore SMG will become operable (swapped in, loaded and ready to fire) faster than the Torgue SMG.

Tediore unique and legendary weapons also follow this trend: None of them have exceptional firepower or combat abilities. However, all of legendaries can regenerate ammo, giving them more of a secondary weapon role.

Lilith can use Tediore guns to great effect: Her phasewalk play-style (phase in, fight, phase out, repeat) leaves her with very little time to reload. Tediore guns help not waste time swapping and reloading weapons.

The Tediore Loyalty Class Mod, Common Man, is assigned to Brick.

Notes

• Tediore makes weapons used on Outrunners, as evidenced by vehicular weaponry counting toward Tediore when determining a character's favorite manufacturer.
• Tediore manufactures Mulciber Mk2 turret parts for the same reason as the Runner weaponry.
• Tediore manufactures ladders as evidenced by their logo at the bottom-side of the ladders in Borderlands 2.

Traits

• Low Damage
• Low Accuracy
• (Very) fast reload speeds
• (Very) fast weapon swapping
• All unique weapons regenerate ammo

Borderlands 2

Products

The following are items made by Tediore.

Common Weapons:

• Pistols
  • Aimshot
  • Biggun
  • Handgun
  • Power Shot
  • Quickshot
• SMGs
  • Ace
  • Chaff
  • Green
  • Kindle
  • Spark
  • Special
  • Subcompact MG
• Shotguns
  • Double Barrels!
  • Home Security
  • Shotgun Supreme!
  • Sportsman
  • Triple Barrels!
• Rocket Launchers
  • Bazooka
  • Dispatch
  • Launcher
  • Spread

E-tech Weapons:

• Pistol - Dart,Spiker
• SMG - Plasma Caster
• Shotgun - Splatgun
• Rocket Launcher - Launcher

Unique Weapons:

• Shotgun - Blockhead,Octo

Legendary Weapons:

• Pistol - Gunerang
• SMG - Baby Maker
• Shotgun - Deliverance
• Rocket Launcher - Bunny

Seraph Weapons:

• Shotgun - Retcher

Pearlescent Weapons:

• SMG - Avenger

Class Mods:

• N/A

Grenade Mods:

• Fastball

Shields:

• Cracked Sash
• The Cradle

Prefixes

Weapons

Gun Appearance by Quality

• White weapons:

White-quality Tediore weaponry is sun-bleached grey or white with occasional areas of faded blue remaining. Many, if not all, white Tediore weapons have a large white "Tediore" decal stamped on the side.

• Green weapons:

Green-quality Tediore weaponry seems to be made mostly out of a yellow/beige plastic or metal. Many green Tediore weapons have a large brown "Tediore" decal stamped on the side. It is also possible for these guns simply to have a small decal located near the sights of the gun.

• Blue weapons:

Blue-quality Tediore weaponry seems to be made out of a combination of a dark purple plastic or metal along with a woven sky blue material that resembles carbon-fiber. These weapons usually have a small yellow Tediore decal that is present on both sides of the weapon, located towards the back of the gun's sights.

• Purple weapons:

Purple-quality Tediore weaponry seems to be made out of a combination of a dark purple plastic or metal along with a woven dark purple material that resembles carbon-fiber. These weapons usually have a small blue Tediore decal that is present on only the left side of the weapon, located towards the back of the gun's sights.

Usage

In Borderlands 2, Tediore weaponry is still known for its quick reload speeds, although their firearms do not require a physical reload. Instead, Tediore has introduced a new digistruct system for their guns and made every single weapon they manufacture to be disposable. When a Tediore gun runs out of ammo, the weapon is thrown away and promptly explodes. A new weapon is then immediately digistructed in the user's waiting hands.

This means that any ammo which was loaded into the weapon is also lost if the gun is reloaded before its magazine is empty, but the power of the explosion is also proportional to the amount of ammo left inside the gun.

This may mean that even though Tediore weapons are known for their mediocre qualities and that the character loses ammo left inside the gun when manually reloading, they may be utilized by Gunzerkers with ammo regeneration abilities to quickly deal out massive amounts of damage in combination with their action skill. In addition, Tediore shotguns also get their effective range drastically increased, as throwing the shotgun at enemies at medium distance is much more effective than traditional shooting.

Notes

• Like rocket launchers, when Tediore weaponry explodes, the explosion always does elemental damage according to the element of the gun to enemies and/or the player. If the weapon has no element, then the explosion does explosive elemental damage.
• When reloading a Tediore rocket launcher, instead of tossing the weapon in the normal arc, the rocket launcher will launch itself in the direction faced when the reload animation begins. After approximately one second of flight time the thrown rocket launcher will begin to deviate randomly off course. This can make hitting distant targets with the reload more difficult.
• While playing as Zer0, reloading a Tediore weapon will not break Decepti0n, allowing you to weaken an enemy with a reload before finishing it off with another attack.
• Due to the high damage of the reload throw it can often be beneficial for players to keep a spare Tediore gun of a weapon class they rarely use. That way they can put the surplus ammo of that category to good use.
• Interestingly, Tediore's purple-rarity rocket launchers will use the same material as their blue-rarity counterparts instead of the black material shared with Tediore's other purple weapons.

Traits

• Fast reload speed
• Thrown, and explode like grenades when reloaded. Any ammunition left in the thrown gun will be used to fuel the explosion.
• Rocket launchers are thrown like rockets when reloaded, but rapidly go off-course

Quotes

• "Cheap, reliable, lightweight, and incredibly fast reload speeds; Tediore makes an easy-to-use gun." (Marcus Kincaid, Borderlands)
• "If you're on a budget, Tediore is always the way to go." (Marcus Kincaid, Borderlands)
• "Money is tight. Times are bad. You need a gun. Go the Tediore way."