Talk:Kohmak/@comment-24410029-20150508150859/@comment-76.173.107.158-20150815013711

^ Pyrana isn't very hipster. It's got excellent slashing and decent status, combined with the best critical stats on a "hand cannon", better than Brakk, which is also crit-viable. It also fires 12 pellets per shot without factoring in multishot, so the crit damage will be smoother than butter with virtually no spikeage whatsoever.

Really, the only things the Kohmak has over it are the innate punch through and the sustained damage. Pyrana wins in ammo efficiency (nearly three times the damage per shot, before even factoring in crit), burst damage (12.5% higher, again, before crit is factored in) and damage type, with its slash versus the terrible, terrible damage type that is impact.

Considering that the Kohmak fires 25 shots with the base magazine size before needing to reload, it can only be inferred that the Codex description containing "doubles its volley every shot" is blatantly and massively incorrect, seeing as it must be firing a single round of ammunition and 1-3 pellets for the first 10 shots (more than two seconds, since it also picks up speed over the duration). This leads one to conclude that it increases the pellet count by somewhere from 0.2776(rounding normally) to 0.3333...(rounding down) per shot the trigger is held for.

Speaking of the Brakk, it only "falls short" in three areas:  Damage fall-off (literally falling short), the fact that it is a crit viable shotgun secondary, meaning you want the holy trinity on it in addition to crit mods and punch through, using six slots up, and the fact that it does mostly crappy impact damage.

That being said, if you're playing Banshee or Saryn, you should probably be using either a Kohmak or the Mara Detron as your secondary. Just saying.