Talk:Snipetron Vandal/@comment-129.71.164.16-20130722144338/@comment-13117751-20130723211449

The vandal loses to an equally-modded hek against light infested, as said above...though it's a toss-up against ancients since this comparison will largely be situational.

If you do not have time to take a well-placed  shot at a  weak point the hek will probably be better in most scenarios. However, if you have the luxury of being able to aim (i.e. a vauban is on your team and ancients are trapped in bastille) it's arguable that the snipetron could win here.

This comes from the fact that while the hek has its damage in multiple pellets, the snipetron's damage is compressed into a single shot. A well-placed headshot or calf-shot on an ancient from a snipetron vandal will, shot-for-shot, outdamage the hek. The hek on the other hand cannot guarantee due to pellet spread that all shots will hit the weak point (or that all shots will hit at all past certain ranges...and that's not even taking into account the damage drop-off of shotguns once you exceed their optimal range). Of course, the counter-argument to this is that the hek's firing rate is higher than the snipetron vandal's, so a sub-par shot can be quickly followed up again without hesitation or re-aiming.

So ultimately it's down to the circumstances of the comparison.