Talk:Vaykor Hek/@comment-89.70.173.113-20160904150322/@comment-149.200.234.72-20160908210218

A well crit built Vaykor Hek is great and viable for high levels due to the extra damages from the crits (each pellet crits), plus much DPS (8 ammo), and a blast syndicate effect for crowd control. A armor buff is fairly good, unless your warframe's initial armor is low.

Sancti Tigris is more to raw damage shotgun, with healing effect and health buff which provides you more survival, in any long mission such as Survival mode. Plus, the corrosive aoe is very handy against armored enemies as their armors are reduced by 30% (something).

Tigris Prime, can be both raw damage or status shotgun, and can be both (kind of?). The raw damage built is awesome. However against armored enemies, the slash damage is reduced as the level of difficulty is raised. Of course, the elemental damage should help fix that ( with4 CPs, ignore the previous statement). The status build can be very handy, especially at a higher level (some call it end game) of enemies. Viral+Radiation (crowd control), Magnetic/Gas (against shields, kinda okay), Corrosive/Blast (great armor reduction, plus blast). You can also get slash proc on frequently.

IMO, it is up to your gameplay. Duh. Like myself, I prefer raw damage due to I usually use shotties for a quick missions, and most of the time at mid to slightly high leveled enemies. I personally didn't find myself that good with crit Vaykor Hek, but I find it very viable against higher level enemies.