Talk:Sobek/@comment-62.158.71.181-20130723093942/@comment-13117751-20130724153431

A key strength of shotguns is their pellets and spread. I guess at close range it hardly matters how many pellets you have since they'll hit anyway but for medium range it becomes readily noticable how smaller pellet numbers can be a disadvantage.

With a shotgun that has high pellet count, a cone of the same size will probably have a few pellets miss, but most of the damage is retained.

WIth a shotgun possessing a low pellet count like the sobek here, a single missed pellet means 25% of your stopping power goes missing (as compared to ~14% with a missed hek pellet). Consequently in most cases a lower pellet count is a disadvantage.