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Bottled Lightning is a legendary heavy weapon ordnance in Borderlands 4 manufactured by Maliwan. It is obtained randomly from any suitable loot source, but has an increased chance to drop from Primordial Guardian Origo located in Vault of Origo on Kairos.

Special Weapon Effects[]

Hen scarts and filly tails, make lofty ships wear low sails. - Always Shock.

  • Strike Twice – Fires a slow moving orb that lashes electrical tendrils to nearby enemies, repeatedly shocking them.

Notes[]

  • Splash Radius affects only the final explosion, not tendril radius. Tendril damage still scales with Splash Damage.
  • The slow orb has a finite lifetime, limiting its uptime and area coverage.

Trivia[]

  • The flavor text is a 19th century sailors' proverb about the weather. A contemporary book explains this as:
Certain light kinds of clouds are thus denominated, from their supposed resemblances to the scratches of hens on the ground and the tails of young mares. They are held as prognosticative of stormy weather.
— R. Chambers, Popular Rhymes (1847)
  • The special effect's name also references the proverb that "Lightning never strikes the same place twice."