This item has been made unavailabe in standard playlists to balance the loot pool. It may return in the future.
| “ | Shotgun: Single shot, Break-Action shotgun that deals high damage and is effective at longer ranges compared to typical shotguns.
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- — In-Game Description
The Ranger Shotgun is a Shotgun in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was introduced in Chapter 3: Season 2.
Functionality
The Ranger Shotgun is a single shot, longer range shotgun. It has a tighter spread than other shotguns and must reload after each shot.
Stats
Ranger Shotguns range from dealing 109.8 to 134.1 damage per shot (329.4 - 402.3 damage per second). All Ranger Shotguns use 
Shells. The Ranger Shotgun has a headshot multiplier of 1.5x and a max damage cap of 165.
Please note that DPS is calculated by stats, but is not effective due to the weapon needing to reload after every shot. With reloading accounted for, the fire rate is 0.61/0.64/0.67/0.70/0.73. (66.9/73.7/81/89.4/97.8 DPS)
| Ranger Shotgun | Ranger Shotgun | Ranger Shotgun |
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| Common | Uncommon | Rare |
| DPS: 329.4 | DPS: 345.6 | DPS: 364.5 |
| Damage: 109.8 | Damage: 115.2 | Damage: 121.5 |
| Fire-Rate: 3 | Fire-Rate: 3 | Fire-Rate: 3 |
| Magazine Size: 1 | Magazine Size: 1 | Magazine Size: 1 |
| Reload Time: 1.65s | Reload Time: 1.575s | Reload Time: 1.5s |
| Structure Damage: 81 | Structure Damage: 86 | Structure Damage: 90 |
| Ranger Shotgun | Ranger Shotgun |
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| Epic | Legendary |
| DPS: 383.4 | DPS: 402.3 |
| Damage: 127.8 | Damage: 134.1 |
| Fire-Rate: 3 | Fire-Rate: 3 |
| Magazine Size: 1 | Magazine Size: 1 |
| Reload Time: 1.425s | Reload Time: 1.35s |
| Structure Damage: 95 | Structure Damage: 99 |
The Ranger Shotgun is a hitscan weapon, but fires a spread of 9 pellets when both aiming down sights and hipfiring. Aiming down sights tightens the spread of pellets.
Damage falloff:
- Damage falloff begins at 11 meters (2.1 tiles).
- Damage decreases down to 90% of its maximum at 15 meters (3 tile).
- Damage decreases down to 80% of its maximum at 20 meters (5 tiles).
- Damage steadily decreases down to 63% of its maximum at 30 meters (6 tiles)
- It deals damage until 71 meters (14.1 tiles).
Sounds
| Sound Type |
Rarity |
Sound |
|---|---|---|
| Pullout | Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary | |
| Shooting | ||
| Reload | ||
| Pickup | ||
| Drop |
Obtained
From when the weapon was last obtained in Chapter 3: Season 2:
| Rarity | Chest | Rare
Chest |
IO Chest | Floor
Loot |
Supply
Drop |
Fishing
(Plain) |
Fishing
(Hole) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ |
| Uncommon | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ |
| Rare | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ |
| Epic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ |
| Legendary | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ |
Strategy Guide
- The Ranger Shotgun highly rewards accuracy, as missing with this weapon is incredibly punishing. As such, it makes it an ideal weapon for sneaking up on opponents.
- Like the Double Barrel Shotgun, it deals high damage to structures. However in this case its not recommended, unless you have a SMG as a follow-up, because of it having only one shot.
- Rare and above Ranger Shotguns fires faster than the Striker Pump Shotgun even with the reload. However, it is still advised to follow up with an SMG or Assault weapon.
- This weapon is also effective at medium range, having longer range than a Combat Shotgun, but less than a Heavy Shotgun.
- Unlike most other shotguns, it is not recommended to shoot at the head due to the low headshot multiplier and tight spread.
History
Chapter 3: Season 2
- Update v20.20: Introduced the Ranger Shotgun in Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary.
- Update v20.30: Increased the headshot multiplier from 1.25x to 1.5 and added a max damage cap of 165.
Chapter 3: Season 3
- Update v21.00: Vaulted the Ranger Shotgun.
Gallery
Trivia
- The Ranger Shotgun is based on a Sports Shotgun, designed for competitive shooting competitions. It draws inspiration from a single barrel Sporting Shotgun such as the Remington 1100 Competition. or DT11 Pro O/U Shotgun albeit with a single barrel instead of two.
- The Ranger Shotgun is referred to as a 'burst shotgun' in promotional material despite firing a single shell per reload.
- The Ranger Shotgun technically has a slightly faster fire rate than the Pump, as the Pump needs 1.67 seconds between each shot and the Ranger only needs 1.35 seconds between each shot (reload) at Legendary rarity.
- The Ranger Shotgun has the same damage drop-off pattern as the Heavy Shotgun. Although it deals significantly more damage at range.
See Also
- Combat Shotgun - A weapon which has similar range and also fires a shell.
- Heavy Shotgun - A weapon with an identical range in its class, but fires a Slug.
