The Hek shotgun is perhaps one of the most beloved primary weapons in the game. Today we'll take a great length about it but more importantly this is a complete new player modding guide.
As such we're going to cover topics such as damage types, resistances and vulnerabilities, status chance and status effects, enemy defenses and general how to mod weapons in Warframe.
Getting back to the Hek, it sports a low ten percent base critical chance. This will make critical builds through Hunter Munitions a bit more difficult but thanks the power of HM these builds are still somewhat viable. Status chance is set at ten point seven percent per pellet with sever pellets being fired by default so the weapon is more than capable of applying tons of status effects.
As for a elemental combo of choice I'd recommend using the current king as in Viral damage since it will perform very well in most cases.