Lewis Gun

LEWIS GUN
LEWIS GUN
Weapon Quote	“Pan magazine-fed light machine gun.”
Profile
Build	Heavy
Type	LMG
Price	600
Damage
Body	22
Head	33
Damage Falloff
Min Range	35m
Max Range	40m
Multiplier	0.67
Technical
RPM	500
Magazine	47
Empty Reload	3.55s
Tactical Reload	3.25s

The Lewis Gun is a Heavy class light machine gun designed to deal sustained damage over an extended period at close to moderate distances.

Usage

The Lewis Gun can be selected as the weapon of any Heavy build loadout.

The trigger can be held to continuously fire bullets that damage opponents, also dealing additional damage on headshots. Aiming down sights increases the Lewis Gun's accuracy. Moving decreases accuracy, especially when going airborne.

The weapon automatically reloads when its magazine is empty, or the user can do a tactical reload before this point. The user has unlimited spare ammunition.

Controls	PC	PS	XBox	Key
Equip Lewis Gun	1	△	Y	Weapon
Fire shot (Tap) Continuous fire (Hold)		R2	RT	Primary fire
Aim down sights (Hold)		L2	LT	Secondary fire
Tactical reload	R	◻	X	Reload

Stats

Damage Profile

Build	HP	Shots to kill	Time to kill (Body)	Time to kill (Crit)
Light	150	7	0.72	0.48
Medium	250	12	1.32	0.84
Heavy	350	16	1.8	1.2
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Sights

Main page: Sights

FREE

IRON SIGHTS

300

ADDER REFLEX

300

COMPACT REFLECTOR

300

HOLOGRAPHIC

300

LOOKING GLASS

Properties

Weapon

Ranged — Strikes targets by aiming and firing at them from a distance.

Automatic Fire — Continues to fire automatically until the trigger is released.

Aim Down Sights — Has iron sights that significantly increase accuracy when used.

Full Reload — Replaces the entire magazine in one animation on reload.

Unstable Accuracy — Suffers a significant decrease in accuracy while moving and while airborne.

Bullet

Hitscan — Travels in a straight line, meaning there is no bullet drop. The direction will deviate from the crosshairs depending on accuracy.

Critical Hit — Critically hits on headshots, applying a damage multiplier.

High Range Falloff — Deals reduced damage when hitting targets at long distances (falloff starts beyond 30m).

Minor Structure Damage — Damages structures. Takes a very long time to break a concrete wall.

Guide

Strengths

The Lewis Gun has a higher damage output at long distances than the comparable M60 thanks to its lower bullet dispersion.
The Lewis Gun has a large magazine and remain in combat for a long time without needing to reload.

Weaknesses

The Lewis Gun is beat by the comparable M60 at close distances due to its lower damage per second.
The Lewis Gun's large magazine size is compensated for by a lengthy reloading animation.

Tactics

Firing should always be done while aiming down sights, unless the target is extremely close. Doing so greatly increases the accuracy of the Lewis Gun.
A Lewis Gun user should plan ahead for a tactical reload while firing, since the reload makes for a long downtime. Usually, the Lewis Gun can outlast any opponent, meaning the opponent will be out of ammunition well before the Lewis Gun user needs to reload.

Recoil

How to control:

Pull down and slightly right for the first 9 bullets
Pull down and left until round 17
Pull slightly down and hard right until bullet 23
Pull down and left until bullet 28
Pull down slightly until bullet 40
Pull hard right until the mag is empty

Hitscan

When the weapon fires a shot, a target is scanned for using a hitscan. This is a detection mechanism that scans in a straight line, meaning there is no bullet drop. The direction of this line will be deviate randomly from the direction of the crosshairs, depending on the accuracy level at the time of firing.

Immediately, the closest contestant, structure, object or shield intersecting the hitscan will be tagged as being struck. First, a bullet tracer animation quickly travels from the weapon to the hit location, then its effects are applied. This means it is possible for targets to be struck a few frames after they appear to take cover, as the hit is confirmed the moment the weapon is fired.

Item Mastery

Item mastery XP can be earned by damaging and eliminating opponents with the Lewis Gun.

Each time a certain XP threshold is reached, the item levels up. This does not improve the item, but rewards a unique item customization.

Source	XP Reward
XP Breakdown
Damage dealt by the Lewis Gun	0.2 × Damage Dealt
Critical damage dealt by the Lewis Gun	0.2 × Critical Damage Dealt
Opponent eliminated by the Lewis Gun	50
Assist on an opponent damaged by the Lewis Gun	20

Level 1

0 XP

Lewis Gun

Level 2

9,000 XP

Dye Job (Yellow)

Level 3

9,000 XP

Dye Job (Blue)

Level 4

36,000 XP

Dye Job (Red)

Level 5

54,000 XP

Dye Job (White)

Level 6

162,000 XP

Triangle Twinkle

Level 7

144,000 XP

Striped Grazer

Level 8

136,000 XP

Painted Predator

Level 9

200,000 XP

Predasheen

Weapon Skins

DATA BREACH - 800
EMERALD PRIME - S3 WT Emerald 2
GOLD DUST - 800
LAVA LUSTER - 800
LOOP-DE-DOOM - 950
MINI ROULETTE - S1 BP Level 48
RUSTY RUCKUS - 800
S3 SHINE - S3 Diamond
SLITHER BOUND - 800
TOOTHY TAILWIND - 800
VIRTUAL VELOCITY - 1,150 (Bundle)
PROJECTOR'S CUT - 950

CHERRY BLOOM BOOM - 400
EYESORE EDGE - 400
JADED, BUT NOT JADED - 400
SKULLBOUND OBLIVION - 400
SLY SWAY - 1,150 (Bundle)
SUNDOWN SIZZLE - S2 BP Level 4
TECHNO HONEYCOMB - 1,150 (Bundle)
TRIANGLE TWINKLE - Weapon Level 6
PREDASHEEN - Weapon Level 9

GALAXY GRID - 150
PAINTED PREDATOR - Weapon Level 8
SCRAPYARD SCARS - 150

DYE JOB - Weapon Level 2
DYE JOB - Weapon Level 3
DYE JOB - Weapon Level 4
DYE JOB - Weapon Level 5
STANDARD ISSUE
VIRTUAL EXTENSION - 150

AMBIENT ALOHA
SUNDOWN SIZZLE
BOLT REVOLT
EERIE OSSUARY
OFF PANEL
BROKEN BULLSEYE
CRISS-CROSS CLASH
POSH TERRAZZO
VIRTUAL EXTENSION

Trivia

The Lewis Gun exists in real life as the Lewis automatic machine gun,a light machine gun fromthe First World War-era. It was invented by U.S. Army colonel Isaac Newton Lewis (not related to the physicist from the 17th century) in 1911, but the U.S. Army refused to adopt his design, most likely due to political differences. Frustrated, Lewis left for Belgium, where he established an arms company in Liège, and worked closely with a British arms manufacturer. Manufacturing then moved to England. In the First World War, the Lewis Gun began major production in the United Kingdom under the designation "Gun, Lewis, .303-cal".
- See also: List of Gun Origins.

History

Patch	Changes
4.0.0	Smoothed the recoil pattern of the Lewis Gun, reducing the amount of horizontal recoil at some points. The recoil pattern overall remains the same but should be considerably easier to control
3.0.0	Further updated recoil pattern, making the weapon easier to control for the first few bullets in the sequence, but making the weapon recoil more the longer the trigger is held Decreased damage from 25 to 22
2.0.0	Updated weapon recoil pattern to be slightly less accurate over time during sustained firing
1.2.0	Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly easier to control