Marathon Triage Build: Best Ranked Solo Loadout for Climbing

The tier data is not ambiguous. Triage - Support sits at D-tier in ranked solo and S-tier in ranked squad. That gap is not a quirk — it is the shell's design made visible. Reboot+, Med-Drone, and Shareware.exe are built around crew. In a solo queue, half your kit is inert by default. So this article is not going to pretend the shell is secretly a solo carry. It is not.

What it can be is a tough, self-sustaining extraction machine that punches above its tier by leaning into the one part of the kit that scales in isolation: survivability. The win condition here is not hunting Holotags aggressively. It is staying alive long enough that fragile shells — Assassins, Thieves, Vandals — make a fatal mistake first, and then you capitalize.

“Survive longer. Convert the gaps they leave.”

Primary weapon: Twin Tap HBR - Precision Rifle. Sources list it at 22 damage at 600 RPM with a 20-round magazine of Heavy Rounds across a mid-range profile — the burst-fire cadence rewards patient, deliberate engagements rather than chaotic close-quarters scrambles. That suits Triage's tempo. Slot the ◈ Vigilant Lens - Optic MOD - Enhanced optic (Superior) for the ADS speed and accuracy gains, and run ◈ Buffer Overflow Chip - Chip MOD - Superior (Superior) to build reload stacks on precision downs — the two synergize well when you are finishing off isolated targets.

Secondary weapon: Magnum MC - Pistol. Confirmed 41 damage at 138 RPM with a 12-round Heavy Rounds magazine. It is a mid-range finisher. When the Twin Tap HBR has someone on low health and you need a fast close, the Magnum closes the deal cleanly. Slot ◈ Urgent Care Chip - Chip MOD - Superior (Superior) here — kills and downs while missing health stack Self-Repair bonuses, directly extending the shell's solo survivability window.

Implants: ◇ Regen V4 - Head - Superior (Superior) in the head slot for the Self-Repair Speed and Revive Speed pairing. Survival Kit V4 (Superior) in the torso slot for its heat and durability profile. ◇ Solid Stance V4 - Legs - Superior (Superior) in the legs slot — the Hardware and Heat Capacity values support sustained engagements rather than burst-and-disengage.

Shell Core: Samaritan (Prestige, B-tier rated). In solo, Med-Drone's squad-share function is irrelevant, but the core's cooldown reduction on Med-Drone via Shareware.exe consumable interactions still fires when you apply consumables to yourself. That shortens the Med-Drone loop and keeps your health restoration ticking through fights. It is the best solo-functional core in the kit.

Resistance track is the priority here. The Recharge track is drawing heavy attention in the community right now, and for good reason on squad-oriented builds — but for solo Triage, the Resistance track's Self-Repair improvements are the more direct investment. Work toward the Field Medic perk at 14 Energy (exact breakpoint unconfirmed, described qualitatively as reducing medical consumable use time). Secondary investment goes into Endurance — Heat Capacity improvements keep Battery Overcharge active longer, and Battery Overcharge's weapon-handling buffs are genuinely useful when you are fighting without a crew anchor.

You are not a Holotag hunter in this configuration. You are the shell that the Holotag hunter eventually has to fight through. Play rotations that keep you near exfil paths, use Battery Overcharge to win the mid-range trades the Twin Tap HBR favors, and bank on the fact that your self-repair loop outlasts the burst-health play of most solo opposition.

If a squad's support goes down, and you are still standing with Med-Drone active and Magnum ready, you become the most dangerous thing left on the exfil path. That is the solo Triage ceiling — not carrying a lobby, but being the last one standing who had a plan for it.