Heavy Bowgun

How it plays

• Pick a position and hold it: the heavy bowgun loses its rate of fire by moving.
• Guard rather than flee when the attack lands — what other ranged weapons cannot do.
• Save the heavy rounds for the parts where they pay, not for the monster's mass.

Focus Mode and wounds

Focus Mode is essential for the rounds that need an angle — piercing shots travel through more of the body the more they enter along its axis. The Focus Strike bursts wounds at range.

Defending

It guards — the only ranged weapon that does — and offsets in ignition mode. In exchange, it is slow to escape a bad position.

What it brings

• The heaviest shot pressure in the game, on a chosen part and never dependent on a blade's reach.
• Defends itself: it needs no room to retreat in order to survive an attack.

What loses hunts

• Moving like a light bowgun: the weapon is slow, and every reposition costs shots.
• Firing heavy rounds without aiming at a precise part: that is where the category wastes its inventory.

What the data says ?

• Its offset counter exists only in ignition mode: it is the only ranged weapon among the six offset-capable categories.

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• It is the game's thinnest category, with 74 weapons — against 95 for the best-stocked.

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• Its true raw caps at 240: the category does not rely on raw per shot, but on ammo type and consistency.

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• Blast is the only status out of reach: no round carries it.

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Defence

• Guardyes
• Power Clashyes
• Offset attackyes
• Wyverncounter Ignition, en mode ignition

What belongs to it alone ?

• Ammunition

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