Sobek

"SOBEK is a rapid-firing Grineer shotgun that has reduced damage per shot but boasts extra large clip capacity."

- In-Game Description

The Sobek combines the accuracy of the Hek with a very large magazine for a shotgun. The fire rate is lower than that of the Boar, but the damage per shot is higher, making it a balanced weapon that is accurate and deadly, with poor ammunition economy as the main downside.

This weapon can be sold for 7,500.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * High base damage spread over very few projectiles.
 * Very high ammo capacity per magazine.
 * Decent firerate, though not as fast as the Boar.
 * Fully-automatic trigger, unlike the Hek and Strun.
 * Draws greatest benefit from the Ammo Stock mod.
 * Shares accuracy and damage falloff with the Hek, making it viable at a relatively long range.
 * Like the Hek, stuns Ancients with every shot.
 * While the reload is slow it still comes out ahead of the other shotguns when counted in shots fired or potential damage dealt compared to time spent reloading.

Disadvantages:
 * Lowest pellet/projectile count of all shotguns; fires only four pellets per shot.
 * Slowest base reload speed of all shotguns.
 * Costs a lot of Neurodes and time to craft.
 * Requires Mastery Level 4.
 * Fairly low ammo efficiency.
 * No polarities.
 * Second lowest damage per shot of the shotguns.
 * Lowest critical chance of all shotguns.

Acquisition
The Sobek can be purchased for 225. The blueprint can be acquired from the Market for 25,000.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * When using against Infested, add a Chilling Grasp mod to slow them down and give you more time to fire more shots or reload when needed. The Sobek has good accuracy and the 100% stun on Ancients makes it a reliable holdback weapon, keeping Ancients away from you and your team even at large distances.
 * When extensively modified, The Sobek is best fired in short bursts of three to five rounds due to its high power. Unlike the Hek, the Sobek is not especially ammo-efficient; and its high rate of fire demands good trigger control or ammo boxes.
 * It is beneficial to concentrate on increasing fire rate and damage over ammunition capacity; one of the dual-stat mod Accelerated Blast is ideal for this purpose.
 * Using the Shotgun Ammo Mutation mod can help regain ammo when needed.

Trivia

 * Sobek is named after the ancient Egyptian God of the Nile river.
 * The central magazine rotates after each shot, and rotates for a second or two when starting the reload animation. This makes the Sobek one of the first few weapons (along with the Seer) to possess a non-static model.
 * Prior to the Strun Wraith, this was the highest sustained DPS shotgun
 * Replaced the Strun in the hands of Troopers but they do not seem to fire faster than they did with the former weapon.