Best Team Fortress 2 Demoman Weapons

The lack of rolling pills with the Loch-N-Load can sometimes seriously destroy it's offensive and potential for area denial. The Iron Bomber's lower roll is not always beneficial - in fact it feels more like a crutch in most situations excluding direct hits and pipe jumping.

The complete damage penalty in the Sticky Jumper often just restricts it to jumping around. It is very fun and allows for the demoman to reach the frontlines at no cost, but severely hinders what he's best at - indirect combat. The shields do provide damage resistance and critical hits, but you do have to give up the Stickybomb Launcher which is a fantastic weapon - something I will cover later. The Quickie-Bomb Launcher is bad at area denial and more so for sticky-spamming and airbursting. The Scottish Resistance has restrictions that allow for it to only take much of a defensive role.

The swords often have downsides that apply when they're not equipped. The Ullapool Caber is a great melee weapon but isn't much but a last resort.

The Stickybomb Launcher truly embraces what the Demoman is best at, and it is more versatile and flexible than all other options.

This is my all-time favorite, because of knockback, double donk, deciding how long the cannon should last, and how the downside is kind of replaced with a double donk, leaving about 130 damage!

A non-default Grenade Launcher variant. This weapon shoots grenades that travel faster through the air, giving them more range, and that also deal more damage to buildings, but have less explosion radius and shatter into harmless pieces on non-player/building surfaces. The launcher itself has only 3 grenades loaded instead of 4.

This is currently one of the worst variants of the default Grenade Launcher, and arguably one of the worst weapons in the game. Its current statistics of +20% damage vs buildings, +25% projectile speed, -25% explosion radius, -25% clip size and bombs shatter on non-player/building surfaces, are not very balanced. The weapon used to be very good, almost overpowered, but constant complaints have caused Valve to constantly change and arguably downgrade (nerf) the weapon.

The weapon may be fairly good, but the main reason why it is bad is because its default variant, the Grenade Launcher, is almost 100% better than it. It does not have much use, as its increased damage to buildings is irrelevant dues to the fact that the Demoman is already amazing at destroying buildings, with a vast arsenal of devastating explosive weaponry. However, the buff does allow it to destroy an unattended building with only 2 grenades, instead of 3. The weapon's speed buff is its only shining feature, however another Demoman Grenade Launcher variant, the Loose Cannon, features similar projectile speed. However, the Loose Cannon's grenades don't explode on a direct hit, making the Loch-n-Load a cross between the Loose Cannon and the Grenade Launcher.

The Loch-n-Load's penalties are not too sever, however its benefits aren't too good either. This makes it one of the worst weapons for the Demoman.

You can have so much health and speed after a few kills. If you want to be a demoknight, then the Eyelander, Tide Turner, and the Bootlegger, which replaces the less health, is the perfect match.

How is this thing so low? The Eyelander literally gives one of the slowest classes in the game the opportunity to outrun Scouts with the right weapons

It is an awesome weapons. With 4 heads you have 210 hp and you are faster than medic. And no other class except scout can outrun you.

This is the default Demoman secondary weapon. It shoots grenades, similar to the mines of the Stickybomb Launcher, with the same explosive radius and similar damage. The grenades, although similar to the mines, are different in properties. They do not stick to surfaces, instead they detonate instantly on direct hits, or, if they miss, they can sit on the floor for three seconds before they automatically explode, dealing roughly half the damage of a direct hit. This weapon is definitely the Demoman's weapon of choice for direct combat, and can support his minefield traps very well. However, if you miss your direct hits, it can be extremely difficult to fight off better equipped classes such as Snipers and Scouts, who possess weapons with bullets (hitscan).

You get 4 loaded grenades and 16 reserve grenades with this weapon. Reloading grenades is slow, as only one grenade is restored per reload, making spamming an ineffective strategy.

Definitely one of the most powerful Demoman weapons, however it has some non-default variants that can outclass it in certain aspects of its playstyles, making them more focused for one Grenade Launcher playstyle but weaker in others.

A decent compromise between the basic grenade launcher and the sticky bomber, but not as good as either one. Useful if you want to use a shield instead of sticky bomber because you have better control over placement of your grenades than with the base launcher.

A great weapon that really helps with accuracy. This is by far by favorite

This weapon is great because it provides 50% resistance to explosives, 40% to fire, and immunity to afterburn. This gives the demoman a way to tank hits better if he wants to focus on a grenade launcher.

This weapon is good for escaping a battle and attacking a far enemies.

Oh my gosh I put in this item and t beat 10th and 9th place and now its 9th! Go Headtaker!

It's better than the other shields like the Charge-n-Targe. You have full steering control, so it's easy to get scouts and any other class.

It is good for killing any class, except over-healed Heavies Spies and Scouts.

Oh my gosh! I added this weapon into the list and it's now 10th! Go skullcutter!

While the Demoman is best at indirect combat, and the Quickiebomb Launcher is not the most flexible, it can definitely hold its weight. It can function in chokepoints despite the damage penalty with a focused concentration of stickies, can eliminate enemy stickies, faster charge time means more time to airburst and harass enemies, and the faster arm time means it can hit enemies faster in direct combat. Despite the clip size penalty, six is usually all you need.

Screen is best. I can get insta kills and bang and also escape if I'm trapped

It's the frying pan for gods sake!

This epic melee weapon EXPLODES on impact. You can even still use it as a normal melee after that

When weapon is active:
This Weapon has a large melee range and deploys and holsters slower
0.5 sec increase in charge duration
Melee kills refill 25% of your charge meter.
No random critical hits
15% damage vulnerability on wearer

Sounds like Claymore, nice.

Although it is frequently frowned upon, the Pain Train (especially coupled with a stickybomb launcher) makes the Demoman a force to be reckoned with. In this one weapon, he is given an ability unique to the Scout. He can become a ninja at capping points with one weapon. He gets a few weaknesses: Scouts, a notorious counter; Heavies, which can wreck him at close range; Snipers, which usually don't go for him; and Engineers' Sentry Guns, which are the largest hazard for him.

If you play true demoman, you won't need a sword. Only a simple bottle will strike quickly and not alter your health.