How so? It's a rifle, in the game, designed by the game designers, that shoots just like any other, only instead of spray and pray, you actually have to aim. You need to be close enough for your opponent to see you, unlike snipers, you're not bursting rounds of three or more, so the user has to be accurate or die, and shotgunners have to close the distance on their target in an all out sprint, to hope to register a kill shot. Explain your "crutch" theory though, I'm just curious, because that term gets loosely thrown around without any sort of backing or explanation.