Showdown

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Upon taunting with the fists equipped, the Heavy mimics a quick-draw pistol Showdown, resulting in crippling pain and/or death for anyone slow, unaware or simply unfortunate enough to actually be hit by it. Unlike the hadouken, this move cannot be used to destroy buildings. It is necessary to kill someone using the Showdown taunt to gain the Show Trial achievement. The taunt can still be used during Humiliation, to kill the winning team members as they come barreling into your spawn, and during a Stalemate, when the two enemy teams meet and spam taunts at each other. The taunt animation exists in the 360 and PS3 versions of the game but does not cause any damage.

Community testing has found that the range at which this taunt will kill is actually pretty respectable for such a situational attack. The taunt can (and will) kill people who are standing the equivalent of 9 players (of any class) away from the Heavy performing the taunt (horizontally, it seems to have an infinite vertical range), giving it the longest range of all the taunt attacks by far. However, due to the taunt's straight line of fire, it is still difficult to kill someone with it, and so it should not be considered a serious strategy, unless used against enemies that are distracted, and standing still, such as a scoped Sniper and a Heavy firing. It may be used in most melee only severs or games, making the heavy and scout only classes with any amount of range.

Damage

• Point Blank: 500
• Medium Range: 500 (straight line of fire)
• Long Range: N/A (out of range)
• Critical Hit: N/A

Function Times

• Attack Interval: 3

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Trivia

• The sound clip used for Showdown is heavy_niceshot02, one of the heavy's three sound bytes for the "Nice Shot!" vocal command.

• There used to be 3 different ways the Heavy presented this taunt, shouting "POW! Haha!", silently, and with a short, high-pitched laugh, before the taunt was converted into an attack.
• This is the only ranged attack in the game with unlimited ammo (not counting how the sandman regenerates the ball it launches over time)

See Also

• Showdown strategy

Weapons
view • talk • edit		Scout	Soldier	Pyro	Demoman	Heavy	Engineer	Medic	Sniper	Spy
Primary	standard	Scattergun	Rocket launcher	Flamethrower	Grenade launcher	Minigun	Shotgun	Syringe gun	Sniper rifle	Revolver
	unlockable	Force-A-Nature	Direct Hit	Backburner	None	Natascha	?	Blutsauger	Huntsman	Ambassador
Secondary	standard	Pistol	Shotgun	Shotgun	Sticky bomb launcher	Shotgun	Pistol	Medigun	Submachine gun	Electro sapper
	unlockable	Bonk! Atomic Punch	Buff Banner Gunboats	Flare gun	Chargin' Targe Scottish Resistance	Sandvich Dalokohs Bar	?	Kritzkrieg	Jarate Razorback	None
Melee	standard	Bat	Shovel	Fire axe	Bottle	Fists	Wrench	Bonesaw	Kukri	Knife
	unlockable	Sandman	Equalizer Pain Train	Axtinguisher Homewrecker	Eyelander Pain Train	K.G.B.	?	Übersaw	None	None
PDA	standard	None	None	None	None	None	Build Tool Demolish Tool	None	None	Disguise kit Invisibility watch
	unlockable	None	None	None	None	None	?	None	None	Cloak and Dagger Dead Ringer
Taunt	various	Bonk (Sandman)	Grenade (Equalizer)	Hadouken (Shotgun/Flare gun)	Decapitation (Eyelander)	Showdown (Fists)	?	Oktoberfest (Kritzkrieg) Spinal Tap (Übersaw)	Arrow (Huntsman)	Fencing (Knife)

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