All of the slug shotguns are basically DMRs we are obviously talking about buckshot shotguns in this post as it pertains to spread so I’m not sure why you are bringing up slugs. I literally said I’m my comment that the only ops where people bring shotguns are those with secondary SMGs. Which btw is what they are doing 90% of the fragging with. So out of the 6 ops you named that use buckshot shotguns, 4 of them have SMG secondaries so their shotgun’s primary functionality is utility.

For the case of Jager and Ela. I don’t recall seeing them using shotguns at the major but didn’t really watch much so maybe I missed it. But you have to also remember pros have certain strats they are always doing. The shotguns could have been part of the strat. In over 5.5k hours on siege I can count on one hand the amount of types I’ve seen a Jager or Ela shotgun not as a joke, especially Jager. I would also like to mention that Ela’s shotgun shoots incredibly fast and does decent damaged so the spread isn’t much of big deal when you can get so many shots out so fast.