cos everyone plays nl but shads are in higher demand now after they were fed steroids in a mass undesired classes buff
They are a utility character that benefits multi boss parts. Most bosses save for HT favor 1v1 dps over that. It also requires pretty significant funding to be competitively viable for a DPS slot.
Yes, HT is multi damage a good amount of the time AND Shad just got a nice buff (Update #65 last month) increasing its range so that it can hit more parts of HT easier. For a long time people just wanted NL,Corsair etc for teh DPS, but now I think shad will start to be a widespread pick for HT teams because of INSANE survivability and SED capability along with fantastic multi damage. #2020yearoftheshad