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Best Marathon Triage Build — Season 2 Loadout

A complete Marathon Triage loadout — primary and secondary weapons, weapon mods, shell cores, implants, and a Cradle stat-track plan — engineered from the Triage’s playstyle and cross-referenced against real in-game stat values. Browse the full Triage shell data and every weapon behind these picks.

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GOAL
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BUILD REPORT
Rearline Resurrection
Operate 20-40m behind the engagement line, cycling Med-Drone charges proactively onto the most endangered squadmate and holding Reboot+ in reserve as a hard-reset button for downed runners. Weapon selection covers both the mid-range pressure you'll face when rotations collapse and the occasional need to clean up an EMP-staggered hostile before repositioning.
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LOADOUT GRADE
RANKED VIABLE
Weapons
Impact HAR
PRIMARY
24 damage at 400 RPM in the Mid range band gives a reliable damage-per-second floor without demanding aggressive positioning. As a back-line support shell, Mid range is the sweet spot — far enough to avoid CQB brawls, close enough to punish runners who push your healzone. The 18-round magazine means fewer reload windows where you're entirely vulnerable while managing ability timing.
Magnum MC
SECONDARY
41 damage per shot at Mid range fills the single-target burst gap the Impact HAR's moderate RPM creates. When Reboot+ EMPs an active hostile, a two-to-three shot Magnum MC follow-up can finish the job cleanly before they recover, protecting a revived squadmate. Heavy Rounds ammo type also diversifies your carry from Light Rounds, reducing competition for pickups.
Weapon Mods
CHIP SLOT
Urgent Care Chip (Superior)
Triage will routinely be trading HP to hold position during revives and drone deployments. Urgent Care Chip's stacking Self-Repair speed bonus when below full health directly accelerates the passive recovery window between engagements, keeping you functional without burning consumables that Shareware.Exe would otherwise share with your squad.
OPTIC SLOT
Oracle Lens (Superior)
Greatly increases ADS speed, accuracy while moving, and ADS accuracy. As a back-line shell constantly repositioning between cover nodes, the movement-accuracy bonus is critical — you are frequently strafing or retreating when you need to fire, and this lens tightens your shot consistency in exactly those moments.
BARREL SLOT
Weighted Barrel (Superior)
Greatly increases aim assist and accuracy while moving. Doubles down on the Oracle Lens mobility-accuracy theme. Triage is never stationary — you're constantly adjusting angles to maintain line-of-sight on downed crew while avoiding becoming the primary target. Tighter tracking while in motion is more valuable than raw stability for a shell that fires opportunistically.
MAGAZINE SLOT
Stopping Mag (Prestige)
Custom-made for the Impact HAR, increases magazine size and reload speed. More rounds per magazine directly reduces the number of reload animations you're exposed during critical ability windows — specifically the seconds immediately after deploying a Med-Drone or landing a Reboot+ when enemies are most likely to push your position.
Shell Cores
No Good Deed (Superior, Tactical)
TACTICAL
You receive a burst of healing when your Med-Drone attaches to a crew member. This is the single most important Triage-specific core for a back-line playstyle: it rewards the exact action you're performing constantly, giving you a self-sustain pulse every time you deploy a drone charge. This eliminates the classic support-shell problem of healing everyone but yourself.
Hypocritic Oath (Deluxe, Prime)
PRIME
Damaging a hostile with Reboot+ reduces the cooldown of your next Reboot+. Reboot+ is Triage's hard reset — the ability that turns lost fights into winnable ones. Reducing its cooldown by using it offensively against active hostiles (the EMP/damage mode) means you can cycle it more frequently, making it viable as both an offensive EMP tool and a revive asset in the same engagement.
Samaritan (Prestige, Passive)
PASSIVE
Sharing a consumable via Shareware.Exe reduces the cooldown of your next Med-Drone. Med-Drone has two charges but a finite restoration pool per drone — Samaritan creates a feedback loop where smart consumable usage (Patch Kits, Panacea Kits shared to squad) actively regenerates your drone charges faster, keeping your primary sustain tool in near-constant rotation.
Implants
HEAD
Regen V4 (Superior)
Self-Repair Speed: +50%, Revive Speed: +20%
50% Self-Repair Speed directly addresses Triage's core vulnerability — the shell has no shield and only 120 base HP, so passive health recovery between skirmishes is essential for longevity. The 20% Revive Speed bonus compounds with the back-line playstyle, getting downed squadmates back on their feet faster during the chaotic post-engagement window when you're most exposed.
TORSO
Helping Hands V4 (Superior)
Hardware: +20, Tactical Recovery: +10%, Revive Speed: +50%
The +50% Revive Speed stacks with Regen V4's +20% for a substantial total revive acceleration, making every Reboot+ revive and manual pickup dramatically faster. Hardware +20 shores up Triage's paper-thin durability. Tactical Recovery +10% means Med-Drone charges return faster, keeping your primary sustain ability cycling through a prolonged engagement.
LEGS
Graceful Landings V4 (Superior)
Melee Damage: +20, Agility: +20, Fall Resistance: +50%
Agility +20 is the key stat here — back-line repositioning is constant on Triage, and higher Agility means faster rotations between cover, quicker disengages when a push collapses your position, and shorter exposure windows during drone deployments. The Frenzy Matrix passive (tactical recharge rate and sprint speed after defeating a hostile) further accelerates Med-Drone cycling when you do get a kill.

Triage Cradle Build — Season 2 Stat Plan

Free respec · resets each season
Invest primarily in SUPPORT for revive and ping amplification, then into RESISTANCE for Self-Repair and medical consumable efficiency — both tracks directly reinforce Triage's back-line sustain role.
SUPPORT TRACK
10 ENERGY
PERK · Factory Reset
Reviving a crew member restores your health over time (reported, unverified value). At 10 Energy you've also captured TAD Boost at 4 Energy, which expands your Med-Drone's effective area — both perks are directly on-role for a shell whose entire identity is keeping the squad alive. Factory Reset's self-heal on revive further reduces consumable consumption, preserving Shareware.Exe shares for when they matter most.
SUPPORT TRACK
14 ENERGY
PERK · Optimal Support
Revived allies recover more health (reported, unverified value). Completing the Support track ensures every Reboot+ or manual revive delivers maximum value — a revived squadmate with more recovered health re-enters the fight as a functional asset rather than an immediate liability requiring a second drone deployment.
RESISTANCE TRACK
14 ENERGY
PERK · Field Medic
Medical consumables take less time to use (reported, unverified value). Faster consumable application means shorter exposure during Patch Kit and Panacea Kit uses, which is critical when you're healing mid-position while managing drone and Reboot+ cooldowns. Scab Factory at 3 Energy and TCIV Resist at 8 Energy are captured along the way — bleed-out resistance is directly relevant for a shell that will occasionally get caught out while enabling others.
STRENGTHS
+No Good Deed + Regen V4 creates a dual self-sustain loop — drone deployment heals you and 50% Self-Repair speed maintains HP between engagements without burning consumables
+Helping Hands V4 + Regen V4 stack to a combined +70% Revive Speed, meaning Reboot+ and manual pickups happen fast enough that enemies cannot rotate to re-down before the revived runner is mobile
+Samaritan + Hypocritic Oath keep both Med-Drone and Reboot+ cycling on shortened cooldowns through normal gameplay actions — smart consumable use and offensive Reboot+ use are both rewarded mechanically
WEAKNESSES
Solo context strips every ability of its squad-synergy value — Med-Drone, Shareware.Exe, and Samaritan are all dead weight with no teammates, making this build significantly underperform its theoretical ceiling in solo play
No shield slot investment and only 120 base HP means any runner who correctly identifies and focuses the Triage shell will delete it before Regen V4 and Hardware bonuses can compensate
RANKED NOTE
This build targets casual unranked play where Squad S ranking potential is achievable, but the solo-only context neutralizes Triage's core strengths — ranked viability exists in squad formats; solo ranked is rated D for this shell by design.
⬢ Build Analysis
Let me be direct: running Triage solo is playing the game in hard mode by choice. This shell is rated D Solo for a reason — its entire kit is externally validated. That said, you asked for a build that expresses the shell's natural playstyle, and this loadout does exactly that without apology. The Impact HAR at 24 damage / 400 RPM gives you enough mid-range teeth to not be a free kill, while the Magnum MC at 41 damage per shot turns every Reboot+ EMP into a two-punch execution setup on the staggered hostile. The core trio is where this build earns its grade: No Good Deed makes drone deployment self-rewarding, Hypocritic Oath incentivizes offensive Reboot+ use instead of holding it exclusively for revives, and Samaritan creates the consumable-to-drone feedback loop that keeps your kit online. Helping Hands V4's stacked Revive Speed with Regen V4 means the moment you get a body to work with, it's back up fast. Cradle Full Support track to 14 Energy is mandatory — Optimal Support ensures every revive actually matters. Urgent Care Chip on the Impact HAR covers the 'nobody is healing me' problem that kills supports in solo. Solid A-tier execution of a squad shell running outside its optimal context.
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