Well, after using all shotguns on high elo after this update, I forgot the shotgun names so i just gonna say one operator who have it:

Lesion/ying shotguns are the best of all

Mute, jager, ela and echo shotguns are amazing and very reliable, you can even use it with attacker with good chances of sucess, specially if using “ads”

Shotguns from pulse, , Frost, mira primary and valkyrie are “fine” but need some buffs to make it actually viable, either in range, damage etc etc, they are not reliable enough to use as main weapon, in my opinion, pulse shotgun could get an buff in recoil, frost in damage, mira and valkyrie on range to make them feel unique from each other.

Kapkan and doc shotguns are absolute trash, they are the worst of all no matter the situation and need huge buffs to make them actually usable, from what i saw, kapkan shotgun have an very bad spread and damage, as well huge recoil, you cant even one shot people at 3m while using “ads”, its ridiculous, while doc shotgun also suffer the same but poor range as well, these two need huge buffs asap.

ying/lesion/nokk shotgun is the most strong one with 45 damage, best range and semi auto

mute/smoke/thatcher/sledge/warden shotgun is the 2 best now

some people said super nova from hibana/amaru/echo is much better than these above but on my testing i found it to be meh

yes, cooking grenades on real life is stupid, on real life theres no ‘‘grenade indicator’’ to show where it landed or if theres a grenade nearby

that DMR is a beast, you can combo either angled and muzzle breaker or vertical with supressor and have no recoil with high damage and fast reloading, mpx is meh and i hope there willl be no 1.5 for it or warden mains will go for him, also no need for a C4, better give him the observation block thing