Demoman

Demoman
Basic Information
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Type:	Defensive
Health:	175 ; (150 with the Eyelander equipped) ; (260 when buffed by a Medic, ; 225 with the Eyelander equipped) ; 160 with the Claidheamh Mòr equipped(240 when buffed by a Medic)
Speed:	93% ; (79% with the Scotsman's skullcutter equipped)
Meet the Demoman

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“

KA-BOOOOOOOM!

— The Demoman Taunt

”

“

One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch...and kablooie!

Click to listen

— The Demoman on occupational hazards

”

A scrumpy-swilling, monster-bothering demolitions expert from the Scottish highlands, the Demoman (real name Tavish DeGroot) is one of the more versatile members of the team. Though his weapons lack pinpoint long-range accuracy, the Demoman is a powerful, if unpredictable, asset and can hold his own in just about any situation. He is a master of the explosive, excelling at indirect mid-range combat. Armed with his Grenade launcher and Sticky bombs, the Demoman uses his only good eye and knowledge of the surrounding environment for well timed detonations that send enemies skyward, often in several pieces.

The Demoman, as his name implies, excels at swift disassembly, bouncing his grenades round corners to wreak havoc on enemy sentry gun emplacements while remaining safely out of sight. His sticky bombs are a perfect tool for area denial, keeping opponents away from any carts, control points and intelligence cases he deems off-limits. His weapons are some of the most powerful, but also the most situational. He requires more thought and swift decision-making than other classes, especially when lining up his Charges and planting sticky bombs.

Recent updates to the Demoman have upgraded his role to being a melee specialist, capable of wielding a variety of melee weapons compared to every other class in-game.

Name:	Tavish DeGroot
Country of Origin:	Ullapool, Scotland, United Kingdom
Job:	Blow up the enemy team
Motto:	"Kabooooommm!"
Badges:
Description:	A fierce temper, a fascination with all things explosive, and a terrible plan to kill the Loch Ness Monster cost the six year old Demoman his original set of adoptive parents. Later, at the Crypt Grammar School for Orphans near Ullapool in the Scottish Highlands, the boy's bomb-making skills improved dramatically. His disposition and total number of intact eyeballs, however, did not. Word of his proficiency with explosives spread, and it was not long before Crypt Grammar received two visitors: Demoman's real parents, who lovingly explained that all Demomen are abandoned at birth until their skills manifest themselves, a longstanding, cruel, and wholly unnecessary tradition among the Highland Demolition Men. His unhappy childhood had ended. But his training had just begun.

Meet the Demoman

Basic Strategy

Main articles: Demoman tips and Demoman strategy

Hit Attack 1 (default: Mouse Button 1) to place sticky bombs, then Attack 2 (default: Mouse Button 2) to detonate them.

With the Sticky Bomb Launcher equipped, the longer you hold down the attack button, the farther the sticky bomb will travel.

To sticky jump, detonate your sticky bombs immediately after hitting the jump key. Practice sticky jumping before the start of a match, or use the Sticky Jumper.

Shoot sticky bombs onto walls and ceilings where they're hard to spot.

With the Ullapool Caber, you can jump to unimaginable heights. Crouch down and hit the ground with it (the caber itself should have not been used in that life before; it should be fresh and not already exploded).

A level 3 sentry can be destroyed with 2 sticky bombs if the sentry is in a close enough proximity to their blast radius. Three sticky bombs will destroy a sentry no matter where in the blast radius the sentry is. When attacking, especially while ÜberCharged, place all 3 sticky bombs at the feet of the sentry before detonating to ensure the engineer doesn't have enough time to repair it in between explosions.

Ali Baba's Wee Booties are not recommended unless in Medieval Mode (found on the map Degroot Keep), as they take the spot of your primary weapon while only giving a +25 boost to your max health.

The Sticky Bomb Launcher is commonly thought of as the go-to weapon for destroying engineers' equipment, but your grenade launcher can also be very effective at it. Grenades will reflect off of any surface that does not have hit points (E.g. enemy players and equipment) and can be used to reflect, then roll away from, walls and into the nests of enemy engineers.

Weapons

Weapon damage is approximate and measured at point blank range. See individual weapon pages for for additional figures.

Primary

Secondary

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Grenade launcher		4	16	Direct hit: 81-111 Crit: 280-300 After Bounce: 22-64 Crit: 190¹
Drop/Craft/Purchase Loch-n-Load		2	16	Base: 125 Crit: 351	-60% clip size +10% damage done +25% projectile speed +25% damage to self Launched bombs shatter on surface.
Drop/Craft	Ali Baba's Wee Booties	N/A	N/A	N/A	+25 max health on wearer. +100% increase in turning control while charging.

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Stickybomb Launcher	8	24	Directly underneath : 103-171 Crit: 353¹	Sticky bombs will stick to most surfaces and remain ready until the player either detonates them or dies. Can lay 8 sticky bombs at once.
Unlock	Chargin' Targe	N/A	N/A	50 (after full charge) + 10 per head (up to 5 heads)	50% resistance to fire damage and 40% resistance to explosive damage. Alt-firing "charges" player forward and adds criticals to melee attacks. Melee weapon deals mini-crits during half charge and crits at full charge.
Drop/Unlock	Scottish Resistance	8	36	Directly underneath : 103-171 Crit: 353¹	Can lay six additional sticky bombs (up to 14 stickies at once). Detonates stickies that are near the crosshair. +12 stickies carried . Can destroy enemy stickies. +0.4 sec priming time (1.32 sec).
Shop/Craft	Sticky Jumper	8	72	Directly underneath : 0 Crit: 0	+200% max primary ammo. -100% damage done, +100% damage vulnerability on wearer from explosions, bullets, and fire. A special no-damage sticky-jumper for learning sticky jump tricks. No self inflicted blast damage while sticky jumping taken. Can lay 8 sticky bombs at once.
Drop/Craft	The Splendid Screen	N/A	N/A	85 (after full charge) + 10 per head (up to 5 heads)	+25% fire damage resistance on wearer. +20% explosive damage resistance on wearer. +70% increase in charge impact damage. Can deal charge impact damage at any range.

¹Explosion damage is determined by the distance from the explosion.

Melee

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Bottle	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195
Unlock	Eyelander	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Every killing blow (decapitation) increases user's speed (+ ~8%) and health points (+15) to a maximum of 4 times each life. Longer melee range. Cannot random crit. -25hp to wielder's health (150hp total).
Drop/Craft	Pain Train	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Doubles capture power for points and carts. User receives 10% more damage from bullets.
Drop/Craft	Scotsman's skullcutter	N/A	N/A	Base: 78 Crit: 234	+20% damage. Larger melee range. -15% move speed on wearer.
Promotional	Frying Pan	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Given away during the Left 4 Dead 2 "The Sacrifice" promotion, to players who bought or had already purchased Left 4 Dead 2.
Halloween Item	Unusual Headless Horsemann's Headtaker	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	(Same stats as Eyelander) Every killing blow (decapitation) increases user's speed (+ ~8%) and health points (+15) to a maximum of 4 times each life. Longer melee range. Cannot random crit. -25hp to wielder's health (150hp total).
Drop/Craft	The Ullapool Caber	N/A	N/A	Base: 118 Crit: ?	This weapon explodes upon impact, causing every enemy as well as yourself to take damage. It deals 150 damage to all enemies in the blast radius with no damage fall-off due to damage. Only the first hit explodes. After the first hit, the grenade does not crit randomly and does standard damage for a melee weapon. On first hit, 100 damage is done to self, launching the user upwards. Assuming that you are on level ground and you do not hit the ceiling, you will take 25 damage from the fall. There is no way to lower self-damage aside from invulnerability from an übercharge. The only way to replenish the explosive charge it to hit a Resupply Locker. The weapon resembles a WWII German grenade.
Promotional/Craft/Purchase	Half-Zatoichi	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Upon killing, the player's health is restored in full. Anyone wielding a Half-Zatoichi can instantly slay any enemy actively brandishing a Half-Zatoichi of their own.(Enemy solider/Demoman)
Drop/Craft	The Persian Persuader	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	+100% increase in charge recharge rate. All ammo collected becomes health.
Drop/Craft	Nessie's Nine Iron	N/A	N/A	Base: ? Crit: ?	No random critical hits. -25 max hp on wearer (Functions just like a eyelander)

Taunt

Slot	Weapon	Duration	Damage
Melee	Eyelander Half-Zatoichi Claidheamh Mòr The Persian Persuader	5 seconds	500 (Instant kill), adds +1 to headcount (with Eyelander).

Best to uber if lot's of sentry guns in one area

Hats

Main article: Hats

Original	Classless		Community		Mann Conomy			Australian Christmas
Demoman's 'fro	Glengarry bonnet	Scotsman's stove pipe	Hustler's Hallmark	Tippler's tricorne	Rimmed Raincatcher	Sober Stuntman	Carouser's Capotain	Prince Tavish's Crown	Scotch Bonnet

Miscellaneous Items

Misc
Dangeresque, Too?

Misc. items
Primeval warrior	Grizzled veteran	Soldier of fortune	Mercenary	Earbuds	Platinum Dueling Badge

Gold Dueling Badge	Silver Dueling Badge	Bronze Dueling Badge	Polycount Pin	License to Maim	Companion Cube Pin

Misc. items
Primeval warrior	Grizzled veteran	Soldier of fortune	Mercenary	Earbuds	Platinum Dueling Badge

Gold Dueling Badge	Silver Dueling Badge	Bronze Dueling Badge	Polycount Pin	License to Maim	Companion Cube Pin

Official class avatars

Offical Class avatars
Original	RED 'ÜberCharged'	BLU 'ÜberCharged'

Achievements

Main article: Demoman achievements

Demoman pack: 35 achievements, 3 milestones.

Trivia

The Demoman and the Soldier at a sporting event.

In the Meet the Demoman video, he claims to be a black, Scottish cyclops.
The RED Demoman's real name is Tavish Degroot.
The Demoman is voiced by Gary Schwartz, who also voices the Heavy.
The Demoman has 3 jobs, a $5 million salary, and lives in a mansion with his blind mother in the Badlands of New Mexico.
The WAR!: The BLU Soldier and the RED Demoman became fast friends after meeting at a projectile weapons expo. They shared many experiences together including deep sea fishing, a trip to Las Vegas, and the 'Gravel Pits of America' scenic bus tour. After the Administrator's assistant Miss Pauling brought the matter to her attention (as friendships are forbidden by mercenary contract), the Administrator decided to introduce a little 'healthy competition' to kill their blossoming friendship.
The Demoman lost the seven day War waged between him and the Soldier, thus losing out on his chance to obtain the Gunboats. Technically, more Soldiers were killed during the war than Demomen; the scales were tipped in favor of the Soldier by points awarded from the Propaganda Contest.
The Demoman was born to a clan of Scottish Demomen whose motto is "In regione caecorum rex est luscus", which roughly translates as "In the realm of the blind, the one eyed man is king." According to his mother, his father lost both his eyes before he was 30 and maintained 26 jobs until his dying day.
The Demoman's Scottish accent is very broken, due to the actor being American, not Scottish.
The Demoman's class emblem is different from the emblem that appears on his sleeve, depicting a lit bomb rather than a stick of dynamite. However, he uses neither type of explosive.
The Demoman's old trading card bio is largely the same, except that his original parents are killed rather than his adoptive set.
The Demoman is missing his shoulder emblem in the RED main menu splash screen (both in the original RED team picture and the Soldier/Demo Face-off picture). He is also missing his shoulder emblems in Meet the Demoman.
The HUD icon of the Demoman is inverted horizontally, as he is depicted as left-handed. The Demoman's patch is also on the wrong eye.
The Demoman seems to be highly sensitive about his missing eye. A trip to the 'Eye Museum' with the BLU Soldier caused the RED Demoman to break into tears.
The Demoman is a supporter of the 'Badland Brawlers'.
In the Backpack, the Scottish Resistance and the Chargin' Targe are listed as primary weapons for crafting purposes. This is similar only to the Spy, where his Revolver is a secondary weapon.
The Chargin' Targe doesn't refill at respawning. In servers with a very short respawn rate, Demomen that used their Chargin' Targe before death have to wait for it to refill after respawning.
As seen in Meet the Demoman the Demoman smokes as the lit cigarette seen on his desk is presumably his. This coupled with his drinking makes for a very dangerous habit, considering the materials he typically works with.
The Demoman and Soldier are the only two classes with both hands fully uncovered.
The Demoman's crotch smiley note can never be seen in world view, it be seen only when the Demoman taunts while wielding the Grenade launcher.
The Demoman is the only class in the game who is not Caucasian (excluding Pyro's indeterminate race).
The Demoman, as well as the Heavy, are the only classes that wear any visible body armor.
The Demoman has the most available melee weapons of all the classes, with the Bottle, Eyelander, Pain Train, Scotsman's skullcutter, Frying Pan, Ullapool Caber, Claidheamh Mòr, Unusual Headless Horsemann's Headtaker, Half-Zatoichi, The Persian Persuader and Nessie's Nine Iron.
The Demoman, the Engineer and the Sniper are so far the only classes that have confirmed names (the Demoman is named Tavish DeGroot, the Engineer is named Dell Conagher and the Sniper's last name is Mundy). This excludes the Soldier, although he is only known to be nicknamed Jane.
The Demoman's Bottle deals the same amount of damage whether smashed or not.
Playing the sentence "Let's do it!" from Meet the Demoman backwards makes it sound like "Fail with style", and is, of course, not what the Demoman intended.
The Demoman is the only class with a brown eye, as all other classes' eyes are blue. This obviously excludes the Pyro and Engineer, whose eye colors are unknown.
The Demoman's father has apparently killed the Queen of England, possibly on more than one occasion.
The Soldier, Demoman, Sniper, and Scout are in a 4-way tie for the most secondary weapons. Coincidentally, there are 4 of them and they each have 4 secondaries.
As of the November 23, 2010 patch, the Demoman's shoulder patch was changed. Originally it was a stick of dynamite. It has since been changed into a sticky bomb.
The Demoman was the last class to receive a new Primary Weapon. His new Primary is now the Loch-n-Load, a two-shot grenade launcher. He received this on December 17, 2010, on the release of the Australian Christmas Update.
The Demoman currently has more melee weapons than any other class, 10 in total. This is slightly odd considering the Demoman's affinity for explosives, though the melee weapons may be to make up for the fact his primary and secondary weapons aren't meant for direct combat.

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Demoman

Basic Information
Icon:
Type:	Defensive
Health:	175 (150 with the Eyelander equipped) (260 when buffed by a Medic, 225 with the Eyelander equipped) 160 with the Claidheamh Mòr equipped(240 when buffed by a Medic)
Speed:	93% (79% with the Scotsman's skullcutter equipped)
Meet the Demoman

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	Cheater's lament	Ghastly gibus	Bill's Hat	Max's severed head	Wiki Cap	Alien Swarm Parasite

	Modest pile of hat	Noble amassment of hats	Towering pillar of hats	Mann Co Cap	Ellis' Cap	Saxton Hale Mask

	Horrific Headsplitter	Spine-Chilling Skull	Voodoo Juju	Treasure Hat	Bounty Hat	Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect
Holiday Restricted Hats
	Scout Mask	Soldier Mask	Pyro Mask	Demoman Mask	Heavy Mask	Engineer Mask

	Medic Mask	Sniper Mask	Spy Mask	Mildly disturbing Halloween mask	Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head

All
	Cheater's lament	Ghastly gibus	Bill's Hat	Max's severed head	Wiki Cap	Alien Swarm Parasite

	Modest pile of hat	Noble amassment of hats	Towering pillar of hats	Mann Co Cap	Ellis' Cap	Saxton Hale Mask

	Horrific Headsplitter	Spine-Chilling Skull	Voodoo Juju	Treasure Hat	Bounty Hat	Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect
Holiday Restricted Hats
	Scout Mask	Soldier Mask	Pyro Mask	Demoman Mask	Heavy Mask	Engineer Mask

	Medic Mask	Sniper Mask	Spy Mask	Mildly disturbing Halloween mask	Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head

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Basic Strategy

Weapons

Primary

Secondary

Melee

Taunt

Hats

Miscellaneous Items

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Trivia

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