Spy

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Spy
Basic Info
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Type:	Support
Health:	125 (185 when buffed by a Medic)
Speed:	100%

Hailing from an indeterminate region of France, the Spy is an aficionado of sharp suits and even sharper knives who relies on stealth and trickery to aid the team. Using his unique array of cloaking watches, he can render himself invisible and even fake his own death, leaving unaware opponents off-guard. His disguise kit lets him take on the form of any class, allowing him to blend in and sneak behind enemy lines before stabbing his unsuspecting 'teammates', quite literally, in the back. In fact, a swift backstab from behind with the Spy's trusty knife will take out any foe in a single hit.

In addition to being able to assassinate key enemies quickly and efficiently, the Spy is great against the Engineer. Using his Electro Sappers, he can disable his buildings, slowly draining their health until they are destroyed.

Bio

Name: N/A Country of Origin: France Job: Uncloak & Dagger Motto: "..." (Even though he does not have a motto, nearly anyone who has even heard of him has heard him use the word "Gentlemen" before. You could call it his unnoficial motto, even though by definition it does not fit as one) Contraptions: Disguise Kit / Cloaking Watch Badges:    Description: He is a puzzle, wrapped in an enigma, shrouded in riddles, lovingly sprinkled with intrigue, express mailed to Mystery, Alaska, and LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU! But it is too late. You're dead. For he is the Spy—globetrotting rogue, lady killer (metaphorically) and mankiller (for real).

Meet the Spy

Basic Strategy

Main articles: Spy tips and Spy strategy

• Use your knife to backstab enemies from behind, killing them instantly.

• Disguise yourself as an enemy with your disguise kit. Beware, attacking will remove your disguise.

• Hit the right mouse button to cloak and become fully invisible for a short period of time.

• Use your cloak to get behind enemy lines, and your disguise to move around amongst them.

• Try to act like an enemy while disguised. Observe where enemy team members are, and disguise as one of them.

• Place your electro sappers on enemy sentry guns to destroy them. Disguises aren't lost when placing sappers.

• Your electro sappers disable sentry guns before destroying them. Sap a sentry gun before attacking the Engineer.

• Call for enemy Medics by hitting the "MEDIC!" button while disguised. But be careful the men as you're disguised doesn't aware his teammates.

• Bind the sapper to avoid having to scroll through weapons, making sapping much more smooth and easy while undercover.

• You can use gestures while cloaked to make lonely engineers guarding their creations become scared and paranoid.

Weapons

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

Primary

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Revolver	6	24	Base: 40 Crit: 120
Unlock	Ambassador	6	24	Base: 34 Crit: 102	Crits on accurate headshot. Accuracy decreases after initial shot (short cooldown). -15% damage dealt, 20% slower firing speed.

Secondary

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Electro sapper	1	∞	N/A	Disables and slowly destroys enemy buildings.

Melee

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Knife	N/A	N/A	Base: 40 Crit: 120 (Backstab: 450)	Backstab earns instant kill if the player is within 180° behind their target. No random crits.

PDA items

	Weapon	Special ability
Standard - PDA1	Disguise kit	Allows the Spy to disguise himself as a fellow or enemy player.
Standard - PDA2	Invisibility watch	Cloak type: Timed Cloaks Spy for 9 seconds. Can collect ammo to refill cloak meter.
Unlock - PDA2	Cloak and Dagger	Cloak type: Motion sensitive Cloaks Spy indefinitely while standing still. Faster recharge rate and cloak consumption than Invis watch. Cannot collect ammo to refill cloak meter
Unlock - PDA2	Dead Ringer	Cloak type: Feign death Cloaks Spy for 6.5 seconds upon receiving damage. Drops a fake corpse during cloak activation. Loud, distinctive decloak sound. 60% faster cloak regen (16 seconds). Can collect ammo to refill cloak meter.

Taunt Attack

	Attack	Weapon	Duration	Damage
Melee	Fencing	Knife	5 seconds	2 Swings for 30 damage each, then a thrust for 500 (Instant kill).

Sam & Max variant

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Primary	Big kill	6	24	Base: 40 Crit: 120	Same specs as the Revolver.

Sapping Times

All times listed are approximately how long it will take for a Sapper to destroy a structure that is at full health with no disturbances.

• Sentry Gun, Dispenser, Teleport Entrance & Exit.
  • Level 1: 6 seconds
  • Level 2: 7 seconds
  • Level 3: 9 seconds

• Combat Mini-Sentry Gun.
  • Level 1: 6 seconds

• Wrangler Sentries.
  • Level 1: 8 seconds
  • Level 2: 12 seconds
  • Level 3: 15 seconds

Hats

Main article: Hats

Original	Classless	Community
Fancy fedora	Backbiter's billycock	Magistrate's mullet	Frenchman's beret

All Classes
Cheater's lament	Ghastly gibus	Mildly disturbing Halloween mask	Bill's hat	Earbuds
Modest pile of hat	Noble amassment of hats	Towering pillar of hats	Max's severed head
Misc. items
Primeval warrior	Grizzled veteran	Soldier of fortune	Mercenary

Miscellaneous Items

Camera beard

Official class avatars

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

Achievements

Main article: Spy achievements

• Spy pack: 34 achievements, 3 milestones.
• 1 General achievement

Trivia

• Ironically, the Spy is voiced by Dennis Bateman, the same VA as the Pyro, his second worst enemy.
• The Spy's old bio appears on his trading card, reading: "A master of disguise, misdirection, and the byzantine details of who really runs things, the Spy is a double reverse quadruple agent whose reflexive suspicion is entirely justified."
• The BLU Scout's Mother is in a relationship with the RED Spy. A file in the BLU base contains photos documenting their activities. The Spy refers to her as "Ma Petite Chou-fleur" ("My Little Cauliflower").
• The Spy appears to have separate voices for BLU and RED as the RED Spy has a lower, raspier voice.
• The Spy ordered the Cloak and Dagger and Dead Ringer Spy watches and later on he purchased the Camera beard and presumably his crab walking kit from the Dapper Rogue Catalogue for the Gentleman Scoundrel from Mann Co. Industries.
• The Spy never removes his mask and, as seen in Meet the Spy, not even in the bedroom.
• The Spy is known to speak phrases in Italian, French and Spanish.
• A BLU Spy periodically appeared behind the RED Sniper in the Day 3 post of the Sniper Update before the joint Spy Update was ultimately revealed.
• The RED Spy has a white cigarette in his mouth, whilst the BLU Spy favors a brown colored brand. Both have only white cigarettes in their case in-game, however.
• In the Beta version, the Spy's suit was grayer for both teams, and he wore a team colored arm band. This version can still be seen in the Spy's HUD.
• The Spy with The Sniper, Soldier and Demoman are the only four known smokers, aside from The Administrator. However, the Spy is the only class to actually hold a cigarette in his mouth during gameplay.
• The Spy was the first class to be able to do two different taunts with the same weapon.
• The Spy is the only class to hold all of his weapons one-handed, though he does hold his primary weapons with both hands when crouching, and his sappers with two hands in world view.
• The Spy is the only class in the select screen to hold a different weapon to his HUD image, with his HUD appearance holding the Revolver and his character model holding a Knife.
• The Spy only has four hats, while every other class has five.
• The Spy can change his skeleton in an excruciatingly painful but worthwhile fashion using his Crab-Walking Kit, as advertised in the Dapper Rogue Catalogue. This is a reference to the Spy Crab, an animation done by holding your disguise kit, crouching and looking directly upwards. This was then referenced further in the Spy and Sniper update, when a taunt for the Disguise Kit which made him do a crab impression was implemented and activates by chance in place of the normal Disguise Kit taunt.
• The Spy and Sniper are the only two classes that wear watches. However, the Spy's watch is for cloaking only and can not keep time.
• Occasionally when you are shot as the Spy you will hear the Pyro's grunt of pain.
• The Spy is the only class updated thus far to not receive a replacement for his secondary weapon. However, in the Backpack, the Ambassador is listed as a secondary weapon for crafting purposes.
• The Spy is the only Class thus far to not receive a melee replacement.
• The Spy is the only Class who can instantly kill anyone during gameplay without taunting.

See also

• Disguise
• Cloak
• Backstab
• Spy match-ups
• Spy taunts
• Spy responses
• Spy voice commands
• Spy strategy
• Spy-checking
• Spy User Guides
• Spy scripts
• Meet the Spy
• Headshot
• List of references (Spy)

External links

• The Sniper vs. Spy Update
• TF2 Official Blog- Sniper/Spy Update, Day 5
• TF2 Official Blog- Day 6 Spy Update Hooray!
• TF2 Official Blog- Sniper vs. Spy Update, Day 7
• TF2 Official Blog- The Sniper vs. Spy Update
• TF2 Official Blog- Neat Community Creations (Spy Update Hoax)
• In-Depth Spy Guide
• TF2: Spy Guide Part#1: Spying 101

v • d • e The Spy Weapons Primary: Revolver / Ambassador / Big kill • Secondary: Electro sapper • Melee: Knife • Special: Disguise kit • Watch: Invisibility watch / Cloak and Dagger / Dead Ringer • Taunt: Fencing Abilities Disguise • Cloak • Backstab • Headshot Hats/Misc Fancy fedora • Backbiter's billycock • Magistrate's mullet • Frenchman's beret • Camera beard • Headgear and misc. items wearable by all classes Strategy Spy strategy • Spy match-ups • Spy User Guides • Spy-checking Character Meet the Spy • Taunts • Voice commands • Responses Achievements Spy achievements (How to) Other Sniper vs. Spy Update • References • Scripts

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