Shotgun team for Union/Solo raids

Written by Sefhi

Published on: 2025-08-27

Updated on: 2025-12-07

Shotgun teams have been a staple composition on all raids since Tove Tove Tier 3 Missilis Water Burst 1 Assault Rifle Supporter came out.

There are multiple variations of this team depending on what supports you have available, and Shift Up has released a few burst 3 options to be the main damage dealers depending on the element.

Core units

Drake (Treasure)

Tove

The only hard requisite to use the shotgun team is having an invested Tove Tove Tier 3 Missilis Water Burst 1 Assault Rifle Supporter . If you invest in her treasure it’s even better, but her base version already works really good for both Solo and Union raids.

The reason why she’s so important for this composition is the Attack Speed buff on skill 2, fixing one of the core issues shotgun units have (they’re kinda slow).

Of course Tove Tove Tier 3 Missilis Water Burst 1 Assault Rifle Supporter also provides other buffs, but this is the main reason SG teams can work on raids.

Drake (Treasure) Drake (Treasure) Tier 2 Missilis Fire Burst 3 Shotgun Attacker is the sub DPS and buffer here. Even when switching your main DPS, she usually stays as the second best option to further increase the damage of the team.

Burst 3 DPS options

Dorothy: Serendipity

Privaty: Unkind Maid

Soda: Twinkling Bunny

Dorothy: Serendipity Dorothy: Serendipity Tier 1 Pilgrim Water Burst 3 Shotgun Attacker is the main damage dealer of this team nowadays. Even off element she will out DPS other shotguns since she’s the one that benefits the most from Attack Speed buffs.

Soda: Twinkling Bunny Soda: Twinkling Bunny Tier 2 Tetra Iron Burst 3 Shotgun Attacker was the queen of shotgun DPS until Doro arrived. She’s still a great option and for elemental content can be used over the other alternatives.

Privaty: Unkind Maid Privaty: Unkind Maid Tier 3 Elysion Electric Burst 3 Shotgun Attacker is the least priority nowadays as damage dealer but still a nice option. She works best with characters that increase pellet count like Leona Leona Tier 4 Tetra Water Burst 2 Shotgun Supporter .

What about buffers?

Blanc

Grave

Leona

Noir

Leona Leona Tier 4 Tetra Water Burst 2 Shotgun Supporter was the main buffer for this team until recently, since we have more options and teams available nowadays.

If you are not using characters that benefit from increased pellets, you can use other buffers instead.

Blanc Blanc Tier 2 Tetra Wind Burst 2 Assault Rifle Defender and Noir Noir Tier 3 Tetra Wind Burst 3 Shotgun Attacker are my favorite pick since it allows me to not worry about sustain, and you still get plenty of buffs, but they are falling off the meta compared to newer characters.

Grave Grave Tier 1 Pilgrim Fire Burst 2 Assault Rifle Supporter is the best buffer ONLY if you are using Dorothy: Serendipity Dorothy: Serendipity Tier 1 Pilgrim Water Burst 3 Shotgun Attacker since her “sniper” shots will benefit from the increased pierce damage.

About cooldown reduction (CDR)

Shotgun teams are pretty flexible when it comes to damage dealers, but they all have the same problem, since Tove Tove Tier 3 Missilis Water Burst 1 Assault Rifle Supporter is your burst 1, you are lacking proper rotations.

Soda: Twinkling Bunny Soda: Twinkling Bunny Tier 2 Tetra Iron Burst 3 Shotgun Attacker fixes this by increasing burst full time duration, making your rotations better even without CDR.

This is one of the few teams in the game where running no cooldown reduction is common.

Recently, Shift Up introduced Soline: Frost Ticket Soline: Frost Ticket Tier 3 Elysion Water Burst 1 Shotgun Supporter which fixes most problems for shotgun team rotations at the cost of eating one slot (offburst) in your team.

Dra‎ke burst

Drake Drake Tier 4 Missilis Fire Burst 3 Shotgun Attacker burst has to be manually aimed, if you are not careful while playing on manual, you can miss it since it will go where the cursor is aiming.

The layer system of this game is weird since technically is 2D but they’re using 3D elements within Unity, so just make sure you take your time to properly aim her burst.

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