Talk:Status Effect/@comment-124.104.229.36-20180321034510/@comment-4448946-20180321045816

I'll give this explanation again.

Status chance works the same on every weapon, people just misunderstand how status works.

The Status Chance that is listed by the game in the Arsenal, Codex, etc. is always the chance of at least one pellet in the shot inflicting status.

So, if a gun has innate multishot or you give it multishot using mods, then the listed status chance is not the per pellet status chance. But, on unmoded single pellet guns, because there is only one pellet, the listed status chance is the same as per pellet status chance; and this is what messes people up. What happens is that people learn about status using single pellet weapons and think that the listed status chance is per pellet, when it's not.

Also, to clarify for the ump-teenth time, the listed status chance isn't "divided" among the pellets to make the per pellet status chance. The listed status chance is made from the per status pellet chance and the pellet count.