Medic strategy
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The Medic's primary role is to keep his team-mates alive using his Medigun. The Medic is the only class to be able to provide invulnerability in Team Fortress 2 via his ubercharge. This ability is often invaluable to his team both offensively and defensively and can turn the tide of battle.
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General strategy
- You constantly regenerate health. If you can escape a fire fight, you can survive. Don't run into situations with a suicide mindset as with some other classes.
- Since you cannot heal yourself directly, always ask your allies to leave Health pickups for you, promising to heal them directly in return.
- Unless you are forced to defend yourself, you should always be preparing your ubercharge. Find someone nearby and heal him, whether he is damaged or not. Your ubercharge meter will fill up (albeit more slowly) even while healing a team-mate with full health.
Medigun healing
The Medigun is a straightforward device, but remember that once you've started healing a target, you will stay "locked-on" to him until you release the fire key or the target moves out of range. This has several implications:
- Never stop moving! As a Medic, you are a prime target to enemy Spies and Snipers. Constantly jumping, ducking, and strafing makes you a harder target to kill.
- Check behind you often. Since you don't have to face your healing target once you have started healing, watch in every direction. You may spot a Spy or a hidden enemy well before your team-mates do. Alert them with voice commands or voice chat.
- Constantly move your crosshair over other allies; keep tabs on all of their life totals, and heal whoever needs it the most. This also helps you boost your ÜberCharge faster.
- Keep in mind that your Medigun beam is visible to enemies. Don't assume that just because you are not immediately visible that foes won't target you.
- If you have an ÜberCharge and are in any danger of being quickly killed, activate it. It's better to survive and potentially ubercharge an ally than to die with a full ubercharge meter.
- The Medigun beam can bend around short corners: use this tactic to keep you out of direct enemy fire.
- If you are forced to choose between keeping any other player alive and another Medic, choose the Medic. He probably has some charge built up: in which case it maybe better to keep the Medic alive and sacrifice another class than to lose time waiting for the Medic to respawn and recharge.
- Heal damaged players first. Even if you heal them a small amount, it is often better to heal someone low on health than to boost another to 150%.
- You charge up your Über faster by healing anyone under 150% of their max health. If you can't find someone to self-damage themselves to keep this fast rate going, find a group of people to heal up to 150% over and over one at a time. This will essentially build it just as fast as a Soldier or Demoman hurting themselves for you.
- Since you heal over time, you should use this advantage even when you have full HP. If the player you are healing is low on HP and/or is reloading, and there is not risk of immediate death from enemy gunfire, running in front of your buddy to take a shot or two is sometimes a good way to defend a point. This is especially effective if you have another medic healing you while you are healing another class.
- If there is any reason at all to suspect that someone is a Spy, try to go through them with your Bone saw wielded.
Syringe gun
The Syringe gun's arcing shots may be annoying in mid-range combat, but it does give you a few strategic advantages.
- You can fire over barriers and obstructions, allowing gravity to pull your needles down to hit targets that are not in your direct field of view.
- If you fire at a steep enough angle, your needles can actually rain almost straight down onto targets on the other side of a wall, making it difficult for them to determine where the attack is coming from.
- Although Engineers and Spies may intimidate you in a 1 on 1 fight; remember that you move faster, regenerate health, and have a high capacity, quick reloading weapon. As long as you dodge effectively you should be able to defeat them if necessary.
- Despite its weak damage output, the Syringe gun has a very fast rate of fire.
- Your syringe gun can prove effective against unattended sentries. Simply find some cover, and arc your shots across, allowing you to safely attack the sentry.
- If you find yourself having to retreat without an escort to back you up, the syringe gun works well for suppressive fire.
Bone saw
- The Bone saw has more frontloaded damage than the syringe gun, but suffers in terms of damage over time. This makes it good for getting in the first strike on a distracted opponent. It also has a higher crit rate than the needlegun, giving you a better chance at a crippling hit.
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