Striker (Borderlands 2)

The Striker is a Shotgun manufactured by Jakobs.

Special Weapon Effects
Additional critical damage, added with exceptional accuracy and minuscule spread. Increased weapon zoom when sighted.

Usage & Description
The Striker's most prominent change from its previous incarnation is that which applied to many Jakobs weapons - unlike its counterpart in Borderlands, where the massive damage was at the cost of fire rate, the Striker is semi-automatic with a small magazine in Borderlands 2.

Perhaps even more accurate than it was before, the Striker also keeps its bonus critical hit damage but at the cost of very high recoil - if unscoped, subsequent shots fired may miss the intended target completely. The nature of its accuracy further reduces its usefulness, as the Striker's tight spread will stray about the crosshairs as one group, a rather hit-or-miss behavior compared to other shotguns' random deviations of every pellet.

Up close, many other shotguns can easily outperform the Striker, even other Jakobs shotguns of considerably lower rarity as its pellet count is relatively low. However it only uses one shell per shot, so per ammo spent it is one of the most powerful shotguns on Pandora.

Trivia

 * The Striker is one of the several Orange-rarity legendary guns to return from the original Borderlands and is one of three Legendary weapons which feature a barrel manufactured by a different company (Hyperion barrel). The other ones are the Hammer Buster and Sledge's Shotgun.
 * The Striker returns from Borderlands.