If we're being honest neither really take all that much skill since sniping in destiny is hilariously easy with the aim assist and shotgunning is also pretty easy. Sidearms and fusion rifles take more skill.

In all honesty, this just turns into a secondary war at this point. Shotgunners complain and call snipers out on camping and aiming down one sight line and never moving the whole game. That is entirely obnoxious and I had to deal with it a bunch in Iron Banner and some Trials teams. Snipers complain and call Shotgunners out on blink shotgun and being able to map you with a shotgun. I voted snipers mostly because of the way I play. I'm not a "sit in one spot and never move" sniper. I actually move around the map to challenge people. I'll admit though, a majority of my kills come from my sniper every game, but that's because I find it far easier for me to distance myself and put in a well timed headshot on someone. This is tougher to do because people rarely stay still in this game so you have to hit a moving target which can be pretty difficult. I have used shotguns before though, particularly the Felwinter's Lie archetype, and find them very easy to get kills with. I remember when that gun first came out, my friend got shot package and kneepads and I kept hearing him freak out at the range he was killing people from. When I got my hands on it too, and started witnessing everyone else with it, I knew crucible wasn't gonna be fun for long. It just seemed so effortless for me to just run up to someone and go "left trigger, right trigger". I think that both of them have their skill gaps, and require some amount of skill to them regardless of the whole aim assist controversy and stuff like that. I would like to, however, put the blame on Bungie for these arguments on the forums because they took out the big maps from regular crucible. Unless you're an avid combined arms player, which on comes out like once a month or something, when's the last time you've seen First Light, Bastion, or Skyshock? I haven't played those maps in a long time and they're really enjoyable to play on. Bungie took these maps out of the regular rotation because nobody liked them for some reason. This left all the medium and small maps in the normal playlists which catered greatly to shotguns. All of this inevitably led to where we are now. If I were to vote on any secondary though, I'd vote fusion rifles cause they take lots of timing and preparedness. Hopefully those start to make a comeback because they were very fun to use. Year 2 Mythoclast please?

Shot gunning does take skill it's just not impressive. Both take skill tho.

I'll have to say Fusion Rifles. They're the only gun you have to use with timing. With a sniper, you can bodyshot if gone to crap. With a shotgun, you can pull the trigger again or melee. With a sidearm.... Spam more bullets? But with a Fusion rifle you're dead. Charge time needs to be taken within your knowledge on the enemy movement and time it so. Otherwise you shoot badly and note that your head is filled with bullets.

I'm not understanding how ANYONE could go with shotgunning. I mean yeah, snipers heave some aim assist, but that doesn't mean that you shoot the ground and get a headshot. And some snipers have low aim assist. Shotguns on the other hand is just run, get close, pull trigger

I know people are going to h8 me 4 this, but I'm going with shotguns. (Sniper vs shotgunner situation) The reason is because you will get mire kills sniping than camping with a shotgun, thus forcing the shotgunner to Sry to get up close to the sniper without being sniped. In maps like the anomoly this is easy, in maps like the pantheon, this is hard. I find that most new maps favor snipers, yes there are corners and hiding places, but why would the sniper take that risk? The odd are highly against him/her. Thus the sniper would win, in a 1v1, on a random destiny map way more often than the shotgunner. This requireing more skill from the shotgunner. Have I not made my point?

Believe it or not, shotguns do take [i]some[/i] skill. Snipers certainly take more though.

Shotguns!

Lol fusions take the most skill

Sniping takes more skill ofc. But practically everyone can snipe

Fusion rifles.

None really. I mean sure every gun takes getting used to but once you know it it's pretty easy.

Is this even a question?

Fusion Rifles.

Fusion rifles obviously, lul