Top 10 Best Team Fortress 2 Weapons
Self-explanatory. What weapon gets you the most kills and helps you dominate the server?
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Your Eternal Reward
Experienced spies rely more on stealth than disguises. When you think about that, this knife is perfect. It doesn't broadcast the kill to the other team. There's no dead body plus it's a silent killer. If there's anything even close to this, it's the stock or Big Earner for experienced spies.
I often use the YER, and its flexibility with the L'Etranger and, in my preference, the stock watch is unparalleled. Even the opposing team always admires the beauty of its chain stabs, and while they are busy having their minds blown, you can make them the next link on that chain!
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Scattergun
This is definitely tying as Scout's best Combat Primary. Basically, anything that operates similarly to this, such as The Back Scatter and Baby Face's Blaster, are about equal. Additionally, the Soda Popper, which operates differently, has a faster reload speed to make up for the Force-A-Nature's biggest weakness and also has Hype.
Meanwhile, the Force-A-Nature has more utility than some of these options but is overall worse at combat.
Finally, the Shortstop is a weapon with huge potential, but it is so hard to aim that most people won't be able to use it effectively.
The Scattergun deals 100 damage at melee range and has 6 shots. You have the potential to kill a Heavy in less than 2 seconds. It has a fast reload, a nice ammo reserve, and the biggest clip of the scatterguns.
The spread is also a bit small, making for deadlier meat shots. The best stock out there, only rivaled by the minigun, knife, rocket launcher, grenade launcher, and maybe the sniper rifle. The Scattergun is the least situational out of that whole collection.
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Air Strike
The Best.
Gun Mettle just made this weapon incredibly powerful. Just use it with the BASE Jumper and you can rain destruction upon your enemies.
Warning: Only use when necessary. Use within 12 months after purchase as it will expire or be nerfed. Do not use on Cp_dustbowl. Treatment works the best on payload maps like Upward. The BASE Jumper is also needed for the treatment (sold separately).
This gun is for more experienced players. On kill, you get more ammo up to the max of eight. You can rocket jump into the air, then with the parachute rain down hell.
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The Black Box
Gives you 15 out of 200 per hit, and it's as strong as the ordinary rocket launcher. If you ask me, -25% ammo isn't much of a drawback for this awesome thing.
It's tied with the stock. Although you get 15 hp per shot that hits the enemy, you need that fourth rocket for air shooting. If you rocket jump, it's pretty hard to kill someone with only two shots. It's amazing with the Concherer and Escape Plan. It's basically the ultimate survival loadout.
Very powerful. Healing every time you get a hit is great. This allows you to win fights against other soldiers because you can heal to outlast them.
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Machina
Not the best weapon, but not bad either. For high-level play, The Hitman's Heatmaker and The Bazaar Bargain will be much better, and Stock will be fine also. The Machina fires tracer rounds like The Hitman's Heatmaker, which isn't too huge of a problem when the enemy is aware (most high-level players don't need to see tracer rounds to know that you're there). However, when they are free-to-plays, it makes it as if every single one of them is aware also.
The penetration on full-charge has some very situational uses, but it will not be used often. The lack of no-scopes is a huge downside, but a pseudo no-scope can be performed by quickscoping and shooting. Finally, the damage increase on full-charge is not game-changing in most circumstances, but it can be slightly useful.
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Tomislav
A great weapon that allows you to counter surprise or sudden attacks with ease. As long as you can aim well, the slower firing speed is practically nothing, meaning you can charge into battle with much more leniency in how you go about it.
This weapon spins up faster and has greater range, giving a skilled Heavy longer effectiveness.
This weapon is the best at suppressing enemies. It has a slower fire rate, but it can last longer.
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Spy-cicle
This weapon is better than the Stock Knife, however, most people will hate you for using it. Essentially, it is a fire retardant suit embedded into your knife. The only downsides are losing the knife in fire and leaving ice statues everywhere. Neither of these two downsides are significantly huge.
The upside is a lot of fire and afterburn immunity upon being struck by fire while the weapon is deployed, which will melt it and allow you to escape. This means that the Spy has two counters, including the Dead Ringer, to his main hard-counter, one of which comes at little cost other than to your reputation.
You're a Spy, and you're trying to backstab someone. Oh no! A Pyro sets you on fire. But you're immune, thanks to the Spy-cicle. Just take your gun out for defense and wait for the knife to regenerate. Paired with the Dead Ringer, it's almost impossible to die.
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Soda Popper
The Soda Popper is a very effective weapon when it comes to attacking strong targets. After about 12-15 seconds of consistent running, the hype meter will be fully filled and you will be able to unleash a barrage of mini crits! Plus, it has faster reloading. (Not that it changes the game very much).
Faster reloading and rate of fire! You can use hype to fly really high in the air! I also love how you can do using it with the Atomizer flying up in the air and then crash down and whack someone with the bat!
When the Scattergun isn't fast enough for you, use the Soda Popper! The speed for reloading for the Force-A-Nature and the Soda Popper are about the same, but the crits are very effective if used carefully.
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Eyelander
A strong drawback at first, but few things stand in the way of a Demoknight with the Eyelander loaded with four heads or more. Great for all modes, and it is really rewarding if you play defense with no shield and manage to get three to four heads.
All you need to do is get two kills with it, and the health you lost is back. You are faster, and if you get five kills, you have tons of health and are very fast. Plus, it looks cool, and that's always a plus.
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Loose Cannon
Bomb Fuse Charge Meter: You can make the cannonball explode faster by holding down M1 before you shoot the cannonball. If you charge for too long, you become a suicide bomber. This is good, this is good!
Very High Push Force (better than the Iron Bomber overall).
20% more projectile speed. This is better than the Loch-n-Load overall.
Knockback is applied on direct hits, which deal only 50 damage to enemies with no splash, but which also deal ZERO self-damage. After this, the cannonball explodes, dealing 60 damage to enemies normally, but dealing 35% more damage than that if the explosion is within 0.5 seconds of the direct hit. This causes light classes to die instantly. This effect is called a Double Donk by the way.
Has 1 second fuse time. This is good and bad.
Can easily be used to deal self-damage and to grenade jump.
Overall: Highly useful for building Ubercharges faster and for grenade jumping.
Good for close encounters as its cannonballs explode quickly, knock people away from you, and deal 0 self-damage. This makes it perfect for self-defense.
If you are more aggressive, this weapon's 20% extra projectile speed and increased damage can be used to shred enemies.
Best Demoman primary, but it lacks the +25 health of the boots, the parachute of the B.A.S.E. Jumper, and the range of the stock Grenade Launcher because its cannonballs explode quickly. It is better than the other two grenade launchers (Iron Bomber and Loch-n-Load) by 100%. It is a straight upgrade to them unless you aren't very good at using the Loose Cannon.
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Scorch Shot
The Scorch Shot makes Pyro a mix of Soldier and Demo, giving it long-range capabilities. It also sets enemies on fire and shoots quickly.
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Neon Annihilator
It's so fun to use when you're in a water-based map. Grab a friend and pair it with a sniper or mad milk, and run around getting crits. It crits whenever a player is wet through water, jarate, or mad milk.
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Beggar's Bazooka
Some may say that having one less rocket makes it bad. Others point to its spread as a downside. But there are some advantages to this weapon. With the BB equipped, you can be the pro rocket jumper everybody calls a hacker, because only Scouts should be able to double jump. You can overload your BB to get an extra jump.
And before someone says the damage output can't match the Direct Hit, the Beggar's Bazooka's increased firing speed can allow it to dish out more damage in a single Uber. In Mann Versus Machine, being able to deal roughly 10,000 damage with a single Uber Canteen makes this weapon seem overpowered. It wasn't supposed to be overpowered, and it isn't - unless the user is skilled enough. Fair, but still an amazing weapon.
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Sandvich
It's probably one of the best secondaries of any class. You heal 300 health when eaten, and can heal a teammate for half their own total health pool. It has quite the charge rate, however, unlike the Dalokahs Bar, which gives less health for no charge rate. The best Heavy Secondary other than the shotgun out there.
One of the most useful and famously hilarious items in the game. It's a definite pick for this list, as it functions as a medium health pack for any teammate, and a full health pack for you. It makes you a gun-toting, bullet-spamming medic.
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Stickybomb Launcher
Just lost the second-to-last point, the enemy team is about to charge the last one, and only you are guarding the point. What do you do? Trap the path you retreated down, wait for those fools to chase you, and BAM! Dead team.
One of the more damaging weapons in the game. A bit hard to use, but it has very strong destructive power and the ability to activate your bombs. Useful for direct encounters at mid-range, ambushes, and more.
Extremely powerful. You can set up sticky traps on points to save your team and on walls to protect yourself. High damage and a lot of ammo - crits do 200-300 damage! Why wouldn't you use this beast of a weapon?
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Ubersaw
Pair up with a friend and become a Medi chain. Heal each other and use the Ubersaw to get Uber, and tell your friend to deploy Uber when full and start sawing the entire enemy team. Hit four times and deploy Uber on your friend, then your friend uses the Ubersaw and slices up enemies, getting Uber. Repeat until the whole enemy team is rage quitting. Annoying and OP.
+25 UberCharge on hit. The -20 percent swing speed is really unnoticeable, and getting 4 hits on someone brings you all the way up to full Uber. This is the best weapon for Medic by far.
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The Quick-Fix
Oh yes, the uber sucks, but that is the only thing that sets you back. The uber has its uses though, don't get me wrong. Lesser overheal is no big deal, unless you're a pocket medic that everyone hates except the pocket. This is meant for healing people who get damage too quickly and always die because his team is not competent. It's a shame that this is so low on this list. Don't get me wrong though, because this thing can still be useless.
I thought it was great before the upgrade. Now that it has received a huge buff, it's menacing. Using it on different maps, I get to the top of the ranking list in no time with this thing. Extremely underrated!
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Rescue Ranger
This weapon was introduced in the weapon update and changed how Engineer was played. Sure, it may not get kills directly, but it keeps your sentry alive and lets you teleport it away if things get nasty.
And we all know that sentries get lots of kills.
This is one of the best, if not the best, Engy weapons around. You can heal your stuff, teleport your stuff, and do all of that from a safe distance!
And when your sentry gets destroyed, it's a pretty good last line of defense, as it has a decent damage output. It looks cool too.
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Force-A-Nature
Incredibly powerful, actually allows you to kill things as a Scout. People argue that you can do that with the Scattergun, but frankly, that doesn't do enough damage to make up for the low health of a scout. It's extremely satisfying to shoot someone with this, and very effective in games like Mannpower where you can just hook someone in and blast them away.
On the downside, people will hate you for using this, but there's a reason for that. The reload is quick enough, and the high knockback gives you time to reload after use. Sure, you get a bit cheated with the ammo thing where if you only shoot once, it still takes 2 ammo to reload, but that doesn't matter too much, because you're probably going to find an ammo pack or die before you can go through 32 rounds.
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Tide Turner
It is the superior shield. The Splendid Screen can be better with Ali Baba's Wee Booties due to the fact that it has higher damage impact and can deal shield bash damage at any range. But that means you can't use a grenade launcher. It's overall tied with, if not better than, the Splendid Screen for that reason.
Full turn control makes it great for sprinting out of the way of snipers, plus charge kills refill your charge meter so you can keep the charge train going.
Makes the Wee Booties useless.
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Sandman
This is a great weapon as you are able to stun an enemy, which I've found useful no matter what map or objective.
With a Sandman, you could make anyone make a BONK! And a critical hit.
You can stun your enemy (it also slows them down) and you can have an easier kill.
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Degreaser
When used with the Axtinguisher, it is superior to all other flamethrowers. However, with that combo, you should probably use some kind of shotgun to take down people in the water.
Great for combos, but you need the right items for this weapon to truly shine.
Fast weapon switch means lots of kills with the Axtinguisher - pretty much insta-kills. Despite its lower damage, it is still a fantastic weapon.
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Crusader's Crossbow
This thing is awesome. Trust me.
Imagine this on Special Delivery: A scout on the list needs the heals, but you can't get on the lift. What do you do?
Use the holy crossbow! You can shoot syringes from far away that heal teammates. Plus, this gun is the sniper rifle of syringe guns.
Anyway, get this. It's awesome.
Healing at a long range that also works in medieval mode. It carries the medic class in DeGroot Keep.
I've gotten a 7 killstreak... As medic. This syringe gun is perfect for control points. While your teammates are fighting in the control point, firing a bolt will either hurt an enemy or heal a teammate.
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The Wrangler
The thing that draws me to it is not the manual sentry controls. It's actually the shield.
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Loch-n-Load
Shoot someone, they lose 100 health, then charge with a shield and chop their head off with the Eyelander. Repeat. Gain five heads, and you have officially become the MVP of your team.
This is my Demoman primary. You can one-hit all 125-health classes, and crits do 360 damage! Pair this with the Charge and Targe and the Caber, and you will be unstoppable!
I mean, like, it does around 120 damage, more or less! It's obviously the best Demoman weapon. Pair it up with the Chargin' Targe and you'll be unstoppable.
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Rocket Launcher
Honestly, with everyone saying how the other rocket launchers are either tied or not as good, I'm surprised the stock hasn't been on the list yet. With the Concheror equipped, you can be nearly unstoppable, able to hit a Heavy without the 3-clip issue that other rocket launchers have.
It's the best because it doesn't have any downsides - unless compared with the Direct Hit. It's a tie.
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Market Gardener
Can do wonders with the Base Jumper and Market Gardener, although it takes a lot of practice to use it well.
When mastered with the Base Jumper and Rocket Jumper, it is the best.