Team Fortress Wiki:April Fools' Day/2021/Pharah

Pharah
Basic Information
Icon:
Type:	Damage
Health:	200 / ∞ (See Health below for further details)
Speed:	5.5 m/s (See Speed below for further details)

“

Justice rains from above! Click to listen — Pharah

”

Fareeha Amari (فاريها عماري, see IPA for Arabic), best know as Pharah, is a patriot, human and security chief from Egypt. Tough and well-armed, she is versatile against players that don't look upward, and totally not a great starter "class" to get familiar with the game.

Well-balanced and possessing both survivability (with a pocket Mercy) and mobility, Pharah is considered one of the more situational heroes in Team Fortress 2. Despite his low ground movement speed, she is capable of using her Jump Jets and Hover Jets to reach height quickly.

Pharah is well known for her extremely and spectacular ability of pressing one button. In obedience of all good sense and judgment, Pharah can use her Hover Jets to launch herself skyward at the cost of gasoline. This ability allows Pharah to navigate the battlefield by air, appear from expected places, and reach areas off-limits even to Engineers. Pharah's time airborne with a combination of using the Hover Jets and the Jump Jets can be undefined, but it's usually 7.5 seconds.

Pharah is voiced by her vocal cords.

Bio

Name:	Fareeha Amari
Location of origin:	Egypt
Job:	Security chief
Motto:	"I will protect the innocent"
Special ability:	Barrage
Emblems:
Description:	Soaring through the air in her combat armor, and armed with a launcher that lays down high-explosive rockets, Pharah is a force to be reckoned with.

Health

Main article: Health

Class	Health
Pharah	200
Under the Overheal effect	200 + 100 armor
Under Megaheal effect	200 + 750 shield that quickly decreases at time
With Mercy	Infinite

Speed

Main article: Speed

Class	Speed
Pharah	5.5
Under Concheror effect	Yeet.
Being pinned by a train	16.5
From heaven to your death location	c

Note: All the numbers in the table are in meters per second. Yes, the metric system.

Basic strategy

Main articles: Pharah tips, Pharah strategy

• You can't rocket jump. Well, actually you can, but it isn't better to press just one button? Press SPACE to great heights slowly.
• Try to keep your health above 0!
• Crouching and jumping simultaneously while aiming at the ground... is too confusing for new players. Press ⇧ Shift to great heights quickly. You can propel you farther by shooting yourself a rocket, at the cost of 40 of self-damage.
• You will often aim rockets at enemy's feet, as people have legs.
• Make sure you keep your Rocket Launcher loaded. Hit R to reload it at any time.
• Press X to call for a healer if you get hurt. Healers probably won't be notified of your need as they already left the voice chat.
• ¿Como me hago invisible con el empresario?

Weapons / Abilities

Main articles: Weapon, Ultimate ability

Rocket Launcher

Weapon	Kill icon	Attributes	Damage Range	Special Abilities / Notes
Weapon Rocket Launcher	➭	Ammo loaded: 6 Ammo carried: Don't worry about this	Base: 156 Real base (without Mercy): 120	+38% chance of not hitting anything as enemies can see your rockets flying from far away.  Damage reduces the further the target is from the center of the explosion.

Hover Jets

Ability	Kill icon	Attributes	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Passive Hover Jets	-	Fuel: Up to 2 seconds Speed: 4.27 meters per second Fuel carried: Don't worry about this	-	Makes your legs inmune to the fire of your own jets   Makes you more vulnerable to hitscans   Speed is vertical

Jump Jet

Ability	Kill icon	Attributes	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Ability 1 Jump Jet	-	Cooldown: 10 Speed: 11.55 meters per second	-	Cos baby your a FIIIIIIREWERK!   Speed is vertical

Concussive Blast

Ability	Kill icon	Attributes	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Ability 2 Concussive Blast	➭	Cooldown: 9 Area of effect: 8 meters	Infinite	Knockback enemies  Can also knockback the same Pharah   32% chance of making someone ragequit after 4 environmental kills in Illios

Barrage

Ability	Kill icon	Attributes	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Ultimate Barrage	➭	Duration: 2.5 seconds	Per mini-rocket: 40 Mini-rockets per second: 30	13% chance of killing yourself.   49% chance that your ultimate gets interrupted   49% chance that your ultimate gets interrupted

Item sets

The Rage Inducer
	Rocket Launcher	Mercy
Effect	+100% chance of surviving.

Cosmetic items

Main article: Hats

Official class avatars

Official hero avatars
Original set	BLU Damage Boosted set	RED Damage Boosted set
Get TF2 avatars on Steam: Original · Community

Achievements

Main article: Pharah achievements Pharah pack: 2 achievements.

Update history

May 31, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added a Pharah model in Harvest Event.

April 1, 2021 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added Pharah as the tenth class.

Bugs

• The presentation of the demonstration of Pharah on the Official TF Wiki channel has a lot of visual glitches that, rather than ruining the graphics, improves them. This is clearly noted in the shaders, illumination and some problems with the models of the Pyro, Soldier, Medic, Scout and Sniper.
  • The classes used also have an increased pitch compared to their voices in the game due to audio glitches.
  • The map used for the demonstration (Borneo) looks very different compared to the map used in the game.
  • The HUD used in the demonstration video isn't the used one for all the demonstration videos. Instead, it uses a custom HUD called "Overwatch HUD"
• The target, for some unknown reason, screams when receiving a shot, and has health.

Trivia

Pharah's model underneath the model of the tombstone of the 10th class.

• Pharah's idea comes from a post on the Steam forums, complaining about the difficulty of the Soldier.^{[citation needed]}
• A scrapped Merasmus response says that he used the same magic for the Scattergun and the Stickybomb Launcher, weapons notably erroneous with reloading their ammo, to explain where the gasoline comes from.
• Pharah's model was originally added in Harvest Event underneath the "tomb of the 10th class" on May 31, 2016 Patch.

See also

• Pharah's voice commands
• Soldier
• Demopan

External links

• Pharah page on the Official TF2 Website