The Slugger： Testing the STRONGEST weapon in Helldivers 2 (INSANE DAMAGE)

Today we're going to be talking about the

Slugger, one of the most powerful shotguns

in Helldivers 2. We're going to be having

a look at it, going to be testing out on

various enemies and showing you why it's

so freaking powerful. So as you can see,

this is a pump-action shotgun. No rapid

fire, no magazines or clips. You reload it

by inserting one cartridge at a time,

which takes ages to reload when you've run

out of ammo. The good thing about this is

it means that you're never going to

accidentally waste ammo by reloading when

you've still got half a clip in the

magazine. So, for example, you can fire a

few shots and then top up your remaining

ammo in the gun just by inserting one

round by one round, so it's pretty

efficient in terms of ammunition

management. So the great thing about this

gun is that it actually pierces medium

armor, even though on the weapon

description it says light armor piercing.

I can in fact declare that you can shoot

some of the armored enemies in this game

and get headshots. For example, these

armored walkers. See this one here? You

can shoot it right in the face and its

armor doesn't even do anything. Look, I

just shot it right in the face and got a

headshot. Didn't deflect off its armor,

so it's definitely medium armor piercing.

It doesn't do anything against the

Chargers or the Bile Titans, so you need

some heavy weaponry for those. But for the

medium armor, like this— see another one,

armored walker, just getting shredded by

the Slugger shotgun. Now it is very slow

firing compared to some of the faster

shotguns like the Breaker and the Pray and

Spray, but you do get much higher damage.

You don't get as much damage as, as the

Punisher shotgun, that does more damage,

but that doesn't have medium armor

penetration. So what that means is, it

means this shotgun is extremely powerful

against single targets, but against swarms

of enemies like these little guys, it does

struggle to keep them under control. The

rate of fire is just not fast enough to be

able to just crowd control these large

crowds of enemies, and you're much better

off just grenading them or maybe using

your Redeemer pistol to just spray at

them. You can't really do spray tactics

with the Slugger. That's not what it's

for. It's for destroying single target

enemies with high armor and doing a lot of

penetrating damage. It is good at

one-shotting the smaller light armored

enemies, but if there's lots of them I

think you'll start finding yourself

getting swarmed and overwhelmed just

because there's so damn many of them.

Okay, so to be able to get this weapon,

you have to go to the War Bonds page, and

I think it's on page 7. There is the SG8S

Slugger shotgun. So it might take you a

while to be able to unlock it. You have to

get quite far into the War Bonds page,

and then here, compared to the other

shotguns, the Slugger does 380 damage

compared to 400— wait, did they buff this?

I swear this used to say 380 damage. It

now does 405 damage, but they haven't

fixed the weapon traits. It still says

light armor penetrating. It should really

say medium. Wait, have they buffed the

shotguns? That's the same, 330.

Oh, they've buffed the Pray and Spray,

the Spray and Pray. It used to say 1—

didn't this used to say like 150 or 140?

Now it says 192. Oh cool,

they buffed the shotguns! Oh, did they

buff the Dominator? 200? I swear that used

to say 100. Or was that the Scorcher? I

forgot now. I might have to retest some

of these shotguns now. It looks like

they've, they've changed the stats on it.

Oh, they haven't buffed the Penetrator.

It still says 45, but I think they've

given it a bigger capacity. I swear that

used to have 15 capacity mag. Wow.

Okay, anyway, so the Punisher is the first

shotgun, does 405 damage. Wow, I gotta

test that again. It does nearly double—

well, 1.5 times the damage of the Slugger.

So Slugger does 280 versus 405, but this

doesn't have medium armor penetrating.

Otherwise, the Punisher would be better

than the Slugger in every single way.

Purely for the fact it does 405 damage

instead of 280 damage. The only reason I

take the Slugger over the Punisher is

because this can kill the armored enemies

much faster, whereas this can't. Okay, so

first of all, I just want to try out the

Punisher, not the Slugger, because I can

confirm— I just checked my older video— it

used to do 360 damage, now it does 405.

So I want to test it out, maybe not on a

Bile Titan because that's Which is kind of

silly. Maybe on something weaker. I don't

know why they buffed the Punisher damage

so much. It's quite a big buff. I mean,

400 damage should be able to one-shot

basically everything, but not these guys.

Watch this. I don't know if the Armored

Walker head armor and leg armor is gonna

bounce off, make my bullets bounce off its

head. Oh my god, I'm just like

one-shotting everything. 405 damage.

Look, look at this,

it does so much. How is this still alive?

The Brood Command must have thousands of

HP if it can take so many shots. I guess

you could work out how much HP each enemy

has. It's still alive, come on, what?

There you go. So the slugger basically

does this as well. You can just one-shot

things if it's got light armor. Now I want

to find something with medium armor so I

can show you, but there's nothing

here. Oh, something's coming.

Flappy ears.

I think you do more damage if you shoot

them in the head. It's just a theory. Oh,

my whole team is dead. They're probably

gonna kick me because I can't be bothered

to res them. Well, they shouldn't have

died in the first place. Oh, armored guys.

You see little reflecting, deflecting

bullet symbols popping up when I shoot

them? Uh-oh. Whoa,

oh, he just acid-biled his own person. I

ran out of bullets on it.

Oh, they're aciding their own people. The

Bile Titan's so stupid. Look at this.

Oh, what? His Tesla got me. Whatever.

Okay, so I'm gonna try out the Slugger.

As you can see, I've got the Slugger and

see how that compares to the Punisher. So

this does about 125 damage less than the

Punisher. But it does have medium armor

piercing. As you can see, these armored

guys,

the armor cannot— if it would turn around,

I think you can actually shoot them whilst

they're dead. So if you shoot them whilst

they're dead, you can see this does

destroy the pathetic tissue paper armor.

Medium armor, you wish. So I go

and find some armored enemies. I'm pretty

sure the armored Chargers have heavy

armor, not medium,

so it won't work with those guys. Wow,

this planet's so pretty. Look how pretty

it is. I don't know how they just managed

to make much more interesting and prettier

planets than Starfield did. Starfield's

whole selling point was we got infinite

all look rubbish and they're all boring.

At least this has cool, interesting little

things on it. And look at the background

with the volcano spewing out smoke with

the starships in orbit. Such a

cool-looking game. Okay, here's some

armored enemies, so watch this. Yeah, I

can get a headshot on those guys. Usually

anything else, the bullets just bounce

off their heads. Against these guys, it

just bounces because they're really,

really tough. But no primary

weapon can actually kill those guys unless

you shoot— oh my god— unless you shoot

them in the backside. I hate it. They just

kind of trip you up and then they do like

a big crushing move. I hate those

stupid charger things. Land on its

back. I land on the Bile Titan's back.

They've nerfed it so you can't one-shot

them anymore. When I played the game when

it first came out, you used to be able to

one-shot the Bile Titans by landing on it.

Now it takes 2 or 3 shots.

How did it die? I need some

airstrikes. I've got Orbital Smoke

Strike here, that's going to be really

useful. Why didn't I bring that?

Oh wait, I did damage on its leg.

I don't know how that happened. See, look

at these guys, armored, armored. The armor

does nothing against the Slugger. Look at

Too many. The problem is when there's too

many of them, the slugger, even though

it's powerful, is so damn slow that it's

just not fast enough to be able to keep

crowds down. So again, you can see— watch

this— you can shoot

it in the head. It takes about 3 shots in

the head,

1 shot in the leg, 2 shots in the

leg. Well, it lost both its legs now.

It takes about 3 or 4 shots for those

guys, about 1 or 2 shots for those guys,

and then reload. It just tripped over

something. Oh my god,

where they keep coming from. Oh my god, I

can't even get up. It's like being

stun-locked on Tekken. Can't even move.