For the article on the The Loading Screen of the same name, please see Tactical Shotgun (Loading Screen)

“ | Shotgun: Semi-Automatic. Fast-firing shotgun with a large magazine. Good for dealing with multiple targets at short range.
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- — In-Game Description
The Tactical Shotgun is a Shotgun in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was introduced in Season 0.
Functionality
The Tactical Shotgun is a fully automatic, short ranged weapon. It fires a string of pellets when shot, which tighten on aiming down sights. The weapon can be fired continuously with no effect on accuracy. At medium range, it suffers due to the spread of pellets failing to connect with a target, and at long ranges it is almost completely ineffective.
Stats
Tactical Shotguns fire a spread of pellets. Assuming all pellets land, the weapon will range from dealing 77 Damage per shot to 93 Damage per shot (115-138 damage per second). All Tactical Shotguns use Shells. The Tactical Shotgun has a headshot multiplier of 1.75x. There is a maximum damage cap of 115 to 135.
The Tactical Shotgun reloads 1 shell at a time, and its reload time statistic is how long it takes for a zero ammo reload to a full magazine.
Tactical Shotgun | Tactical Shotgun | Tactical Shotgun |
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Common | Uncommon | Rare |
DPS: 115.5 | DPS: 121.5 | DPS: 127.5 |
Damage: 77 | Damage: 81 | Damage: 85 |
Maximum Damage: 115 | Maximum Damage: 120 | Maximum Damage: 125 |
Magazine Size: 8 | Magazine Size: 8 | Magazine Size: 8 |
Fire-Rate: 1.5 | Fire-Rate: 1.5 | Fire-Rate: 1.5 |
Reload Time: 6.27s | Reload Time: 5.99s | Reload Time: 5.7s |
Structure Damage: 50 | Structure Damage: 52 | Structure Damage: 55 |
Tactical Shotgun | Tactical Shotgun |
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Epic | Legendary |
DPS: 133.5 | DPS: 141.0 |
Damage: 89 | Damage: 94 |
Maximum Damage: 130 | Maximum Damage: 135 |
Fire-Rate: 1.5 | Fire-Rate: 1.5 |
Magazine Size: 8 | Magazine Size: 8 |
Reload Time: 5.41s | Reload Time: 5.13s |
Structure Damage: 75 | Structure Damage: 78 |
The Tactical Shotgun is a hitscan weapon, but fires a spread of 10 pellets when both aiming down sights and hipfiring. Aiming down sights tightens the spread of pellets.
Damage falloff:
- Damage falloff begins at 8.10 meters (1.6 tiles).
- Damage decreases down to 90% of its maximum at 10 meters (2 tile).
- Damage steadily decreases down to 70% of its maximum at 15 meters (3 tiles).
- It deals damage until 30 meters (6 tiles).
Sounds
Sound Type | Rarity | Audio |
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Pullout | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary | ||
Shooting | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary | ||
Reload | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary | ||
Pickup | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary | ||
Drop | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
Epic and Legendary |
Obtained
From when the item was last available in Chapter 2: Season 8:
Rarity | Chest | Rare
Chest |
Cosmic
Chest |
Floor
Loot |
Supply
Drop |
Fishing
(Plain) |
Fishing
(Hole) |
Crafting |
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Common | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ |
Uncommon | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ |
Rare | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ |
Epic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ |
Legendary | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ |
Strategy Guide
- The Tactical Shotgun is a great weapon for beginners, as its high fire rate compared to other shotguns, and its good damage allows newer players to effectively attack opponents at close ranges.
- The Epic and Legendary variants of the Tactical Shotgun deal 75 and 78 damage to structure respectively, coupled with a high fire rate, allowing it to take down structures much more quickly than other shotguns. It can be used to get inside an opponent's builds without taking time to pull out the harvesting tool, and pulling out the gun again. It can two-shot wood walls, so this is generally more viable than a pickaxe as you are safer if they edit their wall to shoot you.
History
Pre-Season
- Update v1.6: The Semi-Auto Shotgun is added to Battle Royale along with the entire game-mode in Uncommon to Epic rarities.
- Update v1.7.1: Renamed Semi-Auto Shotgun to Tactical Shotgun.
Season 3
- Update v3.30: Tactical Shotgun demoted in rarity. Now Common to Rare. Statistics remain the same.
Season 4
- Update v4.50: Weapon Adjustments:
- Tactical Shotgun damage to structures has been reduced by 25%.
- Headshot Multiplier reduced from 2.5x to 2.25x.
Season 5
- Update v5.00: Shotgun Pellet Spread patterns will now be more consistent.
- All Shotguns now have a cooldown between swapping to them.
Season 9
- Update v9.00: Damage increased from 67/70/74 to 71/75/79.
- Update v9.40: Added the Epic and Legendary variants of the Tactical Shotgun.
Chapter 2: Season 1
- Update v11.20: Reduced headshot multiplier from 2.25x to 2x.
- Low-tier icon received an update, but the same model and design.
- High-tier icon slightly rotated.
Chapter 2: Season 3
- Update v13.00: Weapon adjustments:
- Reduced damage from 71/75/79/83/87 to 68/71/75/79/83.
- Reduced Headshot Multiplier from x2 to x1.5
Chapter 2: Season 4
- Update v14.00: Vaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities.
Chapter 2: Season 5
- Update v15.00: Unvaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities.
- Increased damage from 68/71/75/79/83 to 72/76/80/84/88.
Chapter 2: Season 6
- Update v16.00: Vaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities.
- Update v16.30 May 3rd Hotfix: Unvaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities excluding Common Rarity
Chapter 2: Season 7
- Update v17.00: Unvaulted the Common Tactical Shotgun.
- All rarities of the Tactical Shotgun can be crafted into a Lever Action Shotgun of the same rarity using Nuts 'n' Bolts.
Chapter 2: Season 8
- Update v18.00: Vaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities.
Chapter 3: Season 2
- Update v20.30: Increased the damage from 72/76/80/84/88 to 77/81/85/89/93 and increased the headshot multiplier to x1.75. To combat this, there is a maximum damage of 115/120/125/130/135.
Gallery
Trivia
- When it originally got added, all the variants of the Tactical Shotgun used the same icon, despite two of them being Uncommon and Rare, and one being Epic.
- This however is not an uncommon trend for weapons sharing these rarities.
- The Common, Uncommon and Rare variants appear to be a heavily modded variant of the American Mossberg Maverick 88.
- This is further reinforced by the fact concept art for the weapon displays the text 'BOSSMERG' on the side of the weapon, parodying the real world brand.
- It also uses the same model as the Enforcer Schematic from Save the World, but with a red finish instead of gray.
- This is further reinforced by the fact concept art for the weapon displays the text 'BOSSMERG' on the side of the weapon, parodying the real world brand.
- The Epic and Legendary variants seems to be based on a heavily modded Italian Benelli M1014.
- The High-Level Tactical Shotgun is one of the few weapons included in Chapter 2: Season 1 to not get a model change, although its render was updated.
- There's a screen on the Low-Level Tactical Shotgun that appears to be playing Snake.
- It was formerly called the Semi-Auto Shotgun, despite never being Semi-Automatic.