Hek

"The HEK is a powerful shotgun that fires its shots with a tight spread, making it efficient at medium range as long as its strong recoil is properly managed."

- In-Game Description

The Hek is a shotgun that deals very high damage in a narrower cone compared to other shotguns. Presumably of Grineer design, the Hek trades subtlety and ammo capacity for raw firepower.

This weapon can be sold for 7,500.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage.

Advantages:
 * High Puncture damage. Penetrates armored enemies like Grineer effectively.
 * Narrowest pellet cone of all shotguns.
 * Inflicts the second highest damage per shot of all shotguns.
 * Longest range of all shotguns.
 * Least damage falloff of all shotguns.
 * Infested Runners don't explode on death when killed by the projectiles of this weapon.
 * 100% stagger on Infested Ancients.
 * Second fastest reload speed of the shotguns.

Disadvantages:
 * Low Impact and Slash damage. Lower effectiveness against shields and health.
 * No polarity mod slots.
 * Very small base magazine size.
 * Requires mastery level 4 to unlock and purchase.
 * Extremely inefficient beyond medium range.
 * May miss enemies at point-blank range due to the length of the barrels.
 * Tight pellet spread may make close-quarter combat difficult.
 * Damage drops off over distance.

Acquisition
The Hek can be purchased for  225 or the blueprint for  25,000 upon reaching Mastery Rank 4.

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

Tips

 * Very effective against the Infested, especially when used with fire mods.
 * Ammo Stock at Rank 3 (+40%) adds two into the magazine size (for a total of 6). There is no need to upgrade the mod further as no additional rounds will be gained.
 * Using the Shotgun Ammo Mutation mod can help regain ammo when needed, although not as often as the full auto shotguns.
 * Weapon's spread cone can be shrunk by zooming in.

Trivia

 * This weapon is used by Councilor Vay Hek. This has caused speculation as to whether the Councilor himself is the shotgun's namesake, or otherwise responsible for designing/commissioning it.
 * The magazine for the Hek is the cylindrical 'handle' sticking out of the side of the bottom right barrel. This raises questions as to how the shells are actually loaded into each barrel.
 * It is possible that the barrel it is attached to is a tubular feeding system and not for firing, and that the other three barrels actually fire.
 * Oddly, it requires more Conclave points then the Strun Wraith.