We investigate which elliptic PDEs have the property that every viscosity supersolution belongs to a Sobolev space $$W^{1,q}_{loc}(\Omega )$$ , $$\Omega \subseteq \mathbb {R}^n$$ . The asymptotic cone of operator’s sublevel set seems be essential. It turns out much can said if we know how is related dominative p-Laplacian, with $$p = \frac{n-1}{n}q + 1$$ show that, in certain sense, this minima...