@SolitaryMassacre Exactly, the Hemlok is a skilled based weapon to use.
I actually stopped using it with a Shotgun. From my experience, I lost close range combat more often and a shotgun didn't save me that much. Hemlok is very good as a Primary but having a fast fire rate weapon like R99/R301/LStar gets the best out of the loadout.
A shotgun is very skilled based though if using a Hemlok. Nokopuffs does it all the time with an EVA-8 and Hemlok as a loadout.
It also skilled based when to use which mode.