Auto Shotgun

The Auto Shotgun is an Shotgun in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was introduced in Chapter 3: Season 1.

Functionality
The Auto Shotgun is a fast firing, medium damage shotgun. It is deadly at close range with a tight spread and is very weak at medium to long ranges. It reloads very slowly to compensate for its fast fire.

Stats
Auto Shotguns range from dealing 75.6 to 92.4 damage per shot (113.6 - 138.6 damage per second). All Auto Shotguns use. The Auto Shotgun has a headshot multiplier of 1.5x.

The Auto Shotgun reloads 2 shells at a time, and its reload time statistic is how long it takes for a zero ammo reload to a full magazine. The Auto Shotgun is a hitscan weapon, but fires a spread of 12 pellets when both aiming down sights and hipfiring. Aiming down sights tightens the spread of pellets.

Chapter 3: Season 1

 * Update v19.00: Introduced the Auto Shotgun in, , , and.
 * December 10, 2021: Decreased the pullout time for the Auto Shotgun by 0.2 seconds.
 * Content Update v19.01 - 2:
 * January 13, 2022: Decreased reload time from 8.8s/8.4s/8s/7.6s/7.2s to 6.29s/5.99s/5.7s/5.41s/5.13s.

Trivia

 * The Auto Shotgun's model and icon is based off of the real world Turkish UTS-15.