Helldivers 2 - Slugger vs Breaker vs Punisher Direct Comparison (Helldiver Difficulty Tips)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be comparing 2 of the

most powerful shotguns in Helldivers 2.

We have the Breaker shotgun and the

Punisher shotgun, and also the Slugger

shotgun. We're going to be seeing the

differences between these 3 shotguns. So

the Punisher is the base model of the

shotgun you'll get straight away from the

War Bonds page. It actually boasts having

the most damage out of all of the shotguns

with 360 damage compared to only 280

damage on the Slugger and 330 on the

Breaker. So the main

differences between the 3 shotguns are the

Punisher, you load the rounds one by one

individually, there's no magazine, and

same with the Slugger. The difference with

the Breaker is it actually has a magazine,

you reload like a normal rifle or assault

rifle, and the Punisher doesn't have

medium penetrating armor, but the Slugger

does. Even though it actually says light

armor penetrating, I've tested out the

Slugger on armored enemies below the

Armored Charger, and it can actually

headshot things that have armor, unlike

the Punisher and the Breaker. The Breaker

has much faster fire rate, where it has

fire rates of 300 versus only 80 and 80

on the Punisher. These are very slow

firing weapons. But enough talk, we're

going to test out the Punisher first and

see what kind of damage that does. Okay,

first of all, we have the Punisher

shotgun. Got about 40 rounds I think in

total. So you can see the damage it does

on this yellow thing. Oh my god, I 2-shot

that thing! But I don't think— no, it

doesn't penetrate this thing's armor like

the Slugger does. Look at the bullets just

ricocheting off like that. Yeah,

definitely not medium armor penetrating.

This thing has medium armor because you

need a medium armor penetrating gun to

penetrate it. And the armored Chargers, I

would say they have heavy armor, so you're

gonna have to shoot at its limbs. It

takes— what? How many damn shots? Jesus

Christ, that took like 10 shots and it's

still alive. That's not— that's not cool.

Is it bugged or what?

I'm not disconnected. Sometimes my game

disconnects and the enemies just kind of

bug out. So that took freakishly long

amount of time to take down. I don't know

why, because usually they're pretty weak.

But I 2-shot that yellow bile spewer, so I

don't know what happens if I shoot the

Chargers in the bum with it. It's got

pretty good range as well despite being a

shotgun, so if you shoot in the gap

you can get past its armor. It runs

out of bullets Like that, and it takes

quite a long time to fully reload it.

Yeah, it's not a very rapid-firing gun,

but it does quite a lot of damage. 360

damage. Oh, it just killed the Charger

with its acid.

Obviously it's not going to do anything

against the Bile Titan.

It does a little bit of damage on its

underbelly, like most things do.

And then against these guys, flappy ears,

about one shot. So I would say if you want

the highest damage output, go for this

shotgun, but you have to realize that it's

kind of weak against armored enemies. So

against certain enemies, you're gonna be a

bit struggled. I mean, you're gonna have

some struggles, but against weaker

enemies, yeah, it absolutely destroys

them. Like, look at these guys. You get a

headshot on these guys and it will

basically die.

Look, see, 2 shots.

I give it a 6.2 out of 10. It Watch this,

I think I can one-shot it. Oh, I one-shot

the walker! It's pretty powerful, to be

honest, if you don't care about armor

piercing. Why did I just stand there?

It doesn't do anything against this guy,

see? You get bounced

around like a ping pong ball, it's so

annoying.

It seems to be— oh, I actually killed it

by shooting it in the leg. I don't even

know why or how when

it's not supposed to have armor-piercing,

but I shot it right in its armor.

Okay, that took a lot of shots.

It's still alive. Oh no, it's dead now.

Okay, and then next shotgun we have the

Slugger. Now this does less damage, but it

has medium armor piercing. So wait,

I do have the Slugger. Yeah, I'm pretty

sure that's the Slugger. It looks just

like the Punisher. The only difference is

it's got blue bullets, I think, instead of

red ones. So I think— oh

my god, I one-shot that thing. Can I shoot

this in the leg as well? Because I shot

the other thing in the leg with the

Punisher and actually killed it,

so it should do more damage against the

Brood Commander because that guy's got

some medium armor. My whole team's dead,

they might get mad if I don't res them.

They don't know I'm making a YouTube

video. This is doing no damage against

the Charger. Oh, but it does

damage against this fat thing. I just

one-shot it.

Look, I one-shot that thing's leg. I shot

its leg off. Oh, I two-shot it. Watch

this. Oh damn,

this thing definitely has medium armor

penetration. This thing's great, the

Slugger. Way better than the Punisher.

Oh, I just one-shot its head off. So this

thing has medium armor penetration even

though it says it has light. I mean, I

just headshot the green thing which has

armored heads. It definitely has medium

armor. See how it does on the Stalker. 1,

2, 2, 3. What was that,

2 shots? Are you joking? It took 2

shots to kill it. No way. I'm actually

really liking the Slugger. It's got no mo—

oh yeah, this is the Slugger. It says

Slugger. So right now I'm really liking

this over the Punisher, mainly because it

has medium armor penetration, which does

more damage to things that have armor,

but it would do less damage to things that

don't have armor. So you got to kind of

choose, do you want more damage but no

armor penetration, or light armor

penetration, which is basically no armor

penetration? Oh my god,

that was like 4 shots on the commander.

This thing might actually be my new

favorite gun. This is even more powerful

than the JAR-5 Dominator,

which is weird because I don't think that

has medium armor. Oh my god, everything

just dies when I aim at it.

Did he say butthole? I swear it sounds

like they're saying butthole. When they

say bug hole, destroy the butthole.

Okay, let's find something more armored to

shoot at. Okay, this thing has the armored

head. Yeah, this definitely penetrates its

head. Look at that, they're kind of

glitched. I ran out of ammo. Whack it in

the face. I think it's glitched.

Why does it look like a big shrimp? Okay,

let's test out the Breaker.

Okay, so we've got the Breaker shotgun,

very different kind of shotgun but very

popular. You see almost everyone using

this shotgun, and probably for good

reason. It's very rapid-fire, fire off

like 16 rounds that quickly, and very

quick to reload. Just one magazine comes

out, insert new one, ready to go. The

other shotguns, Slugger and the Punisher,

you reload it one round by one round. It

takes freaking ages to upload it. But the

good thing is you don't waste any ammo

because you can't accidentally reload

prematurely.

So— oh my god, I just one-shot the Bile

Titan with it! No, I'm just kidding, that

was obviously air-stricken. So let's see

what damage it does on the green things.

This doesn't have medium armor

penetration. Look at the bullets bouncing

off. So against things with armor, Unless

you hit the weak spots, you're gonna be

struggling. I think the Slugger is like a

nice in-between of the high damage of the

Punisher, but also it's

got the medium armor penetration which the

Breaker doesn't have. So you want decent

damage and medium— look at this, I can't

headshot this. Look at it, the bullets

just bouncing off his face. I one-shot

killed that with the Slugger.

So the Breaker is pretty good at taking

those little guys because they got rapid

fire, got rapid fire on

the Breaker shotgun. But you're gonna

struggle with things that have

penetrating— I mean, medium armor. You

really want the medium armor penetration

with the Slugger. So I definitely

recommend taking the Slugger. I think

Slugger is gonna suit you well for most

situations. Breaker and the Punisher,

because they lack medium armor

penetration, I feel like it's just gonna

make it kind of annoying to play with.