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I'm going to say the Pulse Rifle. It can take down light armor, wound Space Marines on a 3+, and it's the standard/only weapon for the baseline troops. So it doesn't get the back up of special weapons in the squad. I hate that there isn't much fluff for how reliable Tau weaponry is compared to the IG. I know you can rub the battery pack against your neckbeard and your virgin will rub off on it and give the battery an electron boner (Kidding... kinda) but that doesn't make the Pulse Rifle less reliable. I'm not aware of it breaking all the time in the fluff.

If people are going to bring up Fluff then I want to bring up it's stats in the Rogue Trader game. where a Lasgun will give you 1D10+3 damage at Pen3, the Pulse Rifle does 2D10+4 at Pen 5 (I believe I've got the numbers right.), can fire much farther than the lasgun without penelty, and can fire 4 times faster than the lasgun.