What is the best way to use a shotgun in PVP? I am doing pretty good with had cannons (The Last Word) and scout rifles, but every time I try using a shotgun I fail miserably. It just does not seem to work the way I expect it to work. Seemingly low impact and long follow up time is killing me (literally).
I have:
- Two to the morgue
- Judgement IV
- Felwinter's Lie
- Hide and Seek-42
- Two of the Universal Remote
I just ended keeping them in the vault.
How do YOU use you shotgun in PVP (and which one)?
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Best way to use it...is to use it in a way that makes sense in terms of how you like to fight. By your choice of other weapons, it seems you prefer RANGED combat and fighting at a distance. If so, don't change your style to fit the shotgun. Change your shotgun...and how you use it to fit your style. I generally prefer ranged combat. So the only time I'm pulling out a shotgun are 1. If I'm holding down a control point on an small map, and am looking to ambush someone who is assualting the point. So I'll crouch down off the sightline from the direction I expect them to come...but close enough to get off my shot before they realize I'm there. 2. I'm on a small map, and up against a team that wants to play "run and gun"...and I see someone about to round a corner that I'm close to on my radar. Again...goal is to take them out before they've realized what theyv'e stumbled into to. 3. If I'm in a mid-range fight...and i'm losing with my primary weapon. In which case I'll duck behind cover...and see if I can provoke the guy to chase me behind it, in order to finish me off. Only to get a shotgun in the face. I got Universal Remote two weeks ago...and I'm levelling that up with plans to use it as my primary whenever that absurdly small map Anomaly is in the rotation. In fact I'm thinking of runing a two shotgun set up (Felwinter's Lie) on that map.