The Shotgun is a hunting firearm that fires buckshot across a wide area^[1][2], making it very powerful at close range.^[3][4] Like Ebony & Ivory, the Shotgun retains the same basic design throughout all of its appearances, despite being a different entity in each game.

GameplayEdit

In Devil May Cry, the Shotgun can be found under a desk in the Castle library during Mission 2: Judge of Death. Dante needs to break the desk first to pick it up.

In Devil May Cry 2, the Shotgun is found in the garage, after defeating Jokatgulm, during Mission 4 of Dante's scenario.

In Devil May Cry 3, the Shotgun is found in the Bullseye Bar during Mission 3: The Devil's Tower of Dante's scenario. Upgrading it raises its max bullet output.^[5]

In Devil May Cry, it's possible to quicken the Shotgun's rate of fire a little by performing a glitch often referred to as the "Shotgun Twitch," wherein you aim the gun with R1 and shoot, and then quickly strafe to one side, which cancels out the animation of Dante breaking the chamber to eject the spent shells, and allowing for you to immediately fire again. There's another move called "Shotgun Hike" which, in combination with the Air Hike ability, allows one to infinitely juggle an enemy.

In Devil May Cry 3, it is possible to perform a ground-based jump, Air Hike, or Enemy Step right after shooting the shotgun to cancel the downtime between shots, which the player can exploit to immediately fire the weapon again, drastically increasing the rate of fire on the normally slow weapon. This makes it possible to devastate enemies with the repeated shots via midair Jump Cancels.

MovesetsEdit

Action	Command	Description
Twosome Time	+Any direction+	Simultaneously shoot in different directions.

Action	Command	Description
Shotgun Combo 1	,	Flip sidewards, shooting opponents with the shotgun.
Shotgun Combo 2	,,	Spin the shotgun around your body like a set of nunchucks, blasting nearby enemies.
Shotgun Combo 3	,,,	Follow the sword attack with a shotgun blast, knocking the opponent away.

Action	Command	Description
Normal Shot		A blast that hits all foes ahead, blowing away anything within close range.

Action	Command	Description
Level 1
Fireworks		Spin your shotgun around your body like a set of nunchucks, randomly blasting nearby enemies.
Charge Shot	(hold and release)	Focus energy for a brief time then fire off a super-charged magically imbued burst. Levels 2 and 3 increase the number of bullets fired.
Rapid Shot	Crazy Normal Shot	Quickly click off shots, resulting in a large number of bullets being fired in a short amount of time. Levels 2 and 3 lower the number of button presses required to execute the move.
Level 2 & 3
Gun Stinger	++	Ferociously ram your shotgun into an enemy and pull the trigger to hit them with a concentrated burst of buckshot.
Point Blank	Crazy Gun Stinger	Fire off a shotgun round while standing right next to an enemy, doing maximum damage.

Other AppearancesEdit

The Shotgun is also used in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. Fireworks is its only move, which acts as a followup to Reverb Shock, Revolver and Jet-Stream.

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