When going against multiple foes or a powerful foe, use the Artifact so that you have enough time to successfully evade attacks and get close to a target without getting hit. If aiming for the head, the super shotgun can kill powerful foes such as Hell knights within three shots. The super shotgun can kill any enemy up to a revenant in one shot, provided that all of the pellets connect.

Additionally, it is far more accurate than the regular shotgun. As its name implies, it uses the same kind of ammunition as the shotgun, shotgun shells. Another significant difference is that it only holds two shells at one time (enough for one shot from the weapon). The differences between the super shotgun and the regular one are mainly that the super shotgun (as its nickname implies) is more effective and can cause more damage. Reloads rather quickly but its low ammo capacity and single shot can prove slow in a crowd of monsters. It is a double-barrel variant of the Shotgun that can deal increase damage - especially at close range. Extremely powerful, firing both barrels at once, the double-barreled shotgun will instantly kill most monsters at close range and severely wound more powerful monsters, but loses effectiveness at long range. The Super Shotgun is one of the advanced Weapons in DOOM. The super shotgun has nearly equivalent strengths and weaknesses as its classic Doom namesake and its 2016 equivalent, since it is a sort of remake of that weapon.