Bucky

The Bucky is a Shotgun that is a primary weapon in VALORANT.

Summary
The Bucky is a low-cost shotgun and the cheapest primary weapon in the game. It has two firing modes, a standard single-shell primary fire and a canister alternate fire that allows the shell to travel a short distance before spraying its pellets instead of immediately spraying from the barell of the gun, allowing the user to deal some damage to targets at medium range. Shells shot using Alternate Fire only produce a reduced amount of pellets however, and enemies hit by the canister before it reaches the required distance to explode will only take 1 pellet worth of damage.

As a pump action shotgun, the Bucky is reloaded one shell at a time. Because the Bucky's reload time is also shorter than it's fire rate, this means that a user can reload a shell in between shots, effectively increasing the magazine's capacity to the entire available reserve.

As with all shotguns due to their pellet spread, the Bucky is effectively useless at long ranges. The Bucky especially has a low fire rate, meaning it cannot effectively be used against multiple enemies at once, which is a task better served by the Bucky's direct upgrade, the Judge.

Stats
Note: Multiplier values for leg shot damage and falloff other than x0.833 or x0.85 (which commonly appear across several weapons) are estimates


 * Headshot multiplier: x2
 * Leg shot multiplier: x0.833 (5/6)
 * 7-15 m falloff multiplier: x0.65
 * 15+ m falloff multiplier: x0.45

Alternate Fire
Note: Targets hit by Alternate Fire at 0-8 m will be hit before the canister reaches the required distance to detonate and will therefore only take a maximim of 1 pellet worth of damage.

Trivia

 * During the Beta, the weapon's full name was the PA-12 Bucky (Pump Action).
 * The Bucky's design has similarities to the Benelli Supernova (front sight design and trigger guard) and Mossberg 590A1 (receiver).
 * Despite the Operator's and the Odin's heavy physical appearance, the Bucky and Judge are the weapons slowest to run with.
 * The shells on the side of the gun will disappear when reserve ammo drops to 0.