These shells are realistically used with manual-action (pump, break, lever, etc.) shotguns only.

The usage of Dragon's Breath shells with semi/fully-automatic shotguns in the game is highly unrealistic, as the real-life equivalent of these shells are specialized low-pressure shotshells, thus will not produce enough gas pressure to operate a full cycle.

Though flashlights are a good alternative to make seeing where pellets land an easier procedure.

Due to the lack of iron-sights, a laser sight is near-essential, as with other akimbo weapons.

The Akimbo Goliath 12g shotgun's high rate of fire makes Heavy Impact Aced somewhat of a good skill for crowd control.

This works well with a tool weapon, such as The Judge with HE Rounds, as it can instantly break off a Bulldozer's armor and leave them even more vulnerable to these shotgun's rapid damage, especially with Overkill active.

Berserker aced with the Akimbo Goliath 12G can allow the guns to drop most enemies in one hit/burst on a headshot and kill Bulldozers really fast, even on higher difficulties.

Consider using the Donald's Horizontal Leveler to make hitting multiple targets easier with these shotguns, since these shotguns will still retain a good effective range but offer more coverage and probabilities of hitting multiple enemies at once.

The Akimbo Goliath 12G faces competition with the Brothers Grimm 12G, with the former being more powerful and controllable and the latter being more spammable, having a larger magazine plus a higher ammo-pool and more concealment.

This works very well in tandem with Close By Aced.

Akimbo Aced (On top of greatly increasing their stability) makes ammo efficiency with these shotguns a lot less challenging by giving 36 extra shells to your ammo reserve.

These shotguns can be difficult to use in a dodge build due to their low concealment.

One trigger pull fires both guns, potentially leading to ammo wastage.

Alongside the singular Goliath, IZHMA and Steakout

Has the second lowest pellet count of all shotguns at 8 pellets.

Narrow spread limits effectiveness up close.

Small magazine size that cannot be increased via mods (Thus not saving on skill points).

One of the few non-DLC weapons that performs exceptionally well without any DLC mods.

Reloads entire magazine at once, utilizes the same reload.

Can reach very high stability with mods and skills.

High damage output, especially with mods and skills.

Goliath 12G shotguns can be dual-wielded in the primary weapon slot for their greatly increased damage output at the cost of precise aiming, stability and the opportunity cost of being unable to use other primaries.Īll akimbo weapon modifications cost 40% extra than their normal price.

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