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The Engineer is a utility class that rarely sees a lot of use in the competitive format. However, when he does it's normally with a level 3 Sentry Gun and Dispenser. Even though he has quite a lot of unlocks the Engineer will normally use the vanilla setup because it accomplishes what he needs to do, area denial.
Primary Weapon
The Engineer's primary weapon is shared by other classes, it isn't as powerful as the primary weapon of the Soldier or Heavy for example, however, this doesn't matter so much because attacking the enemy team with his own weapons is an Engineers secondary concern, firstly they need to get a Sentry Gun up to defend the point and possibly a dispenser and teleporter. That is dependent on the map of course.
The Shotgun
The Shotgun is shared by four out of the nine classes, however only the Engineer has it as his primary weapon. It's powerful at close range and not so powerful at medium to long range. It is the Engineer's tool against incoming enemies and a good way to deal with Spies as they will be engaging you at close range. It is a good weapon to use when you need to go on the offensive or protect your Medic, whilst not as powerful as the Scattergun, it can still two-shot the lighter classes such as: the Medic, Sniper, Engineer, Scout and Spy if you are close enough. Not only that but you can use it to knock back jumping Soldiers and Demomen, denying them the ability to jump right behind you and your team.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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Shotgun ![]() |
Point-Blank: 90 512u: 6/hit, avg 6 hits 1024u+: 3/hit |
Critical: 18/hit (max 180) Point-Blank Mini-Crit: 121 512u+ Mini-Crit: 8/hit |
Attack: 0.625s Reload Start: 1.0s Reload More: 0.5s |
Affected by fixed weapon spread (1 extra pellet at center). |
The Frontier Justice
This weapon doesn't see much use because when the Sentry Gun goes down the Engineer normally goes down as well, combined with that, the Sentry Gun normally doesn't get many kills so there wouldn't be many Revenge Crits for the Engineer to use. The smaller clip size also makes it harder for the Engineer to defend his buildings because he has to reload twice as much compared to the regular Shotgun. This can be a problem when you are facing a Soldier who can kill you quickly with either two rockets or by bouncing you into the air and shooting you with his Shotgun.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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Frontier Justice ![]() |
Point-Blank: 90 512u: 6/hit, avg 6 hits 1024u+: 3/hit |
Critical: 18/hit (max 180) Point-Blank Mini-Crit: 121 512u+ Mini-Crit: 8/hit |
Attack: 0.625s Reload Start: 1.0s Reload More: 0.5s |
Affected by fixed weapon spread (1 extra pellet at center). Has half the clip size of the Shotgun. Can fire Revenge Crits upon a Sentry Gun's destruction. |
The Widowmaker
The Widowmaker is quite useful for Engineers that have upgraded their Dispensers fully, so that metal is easily dispensed, as it uses metal as ammo, and does not require reloading. However, this is a bad idea if the Engineer is away from his buildings, as the cost of a single shot is 30 metal, leaving only 4 shots without additional sources of metal.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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Widowmaker ![]() |
Point-Blank: 90 512u: 6/hit, avg 6 hits 1024u+: 3/hit |
Critical: 18/hit (max 180) Point-Blank Mini-Crit: 121 512u+ Mini-Crit: 8/hit |
Attack: 0.625s |
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Primary Weapon Usage
The Shotgun is the best choice, simply because you don't have to reload as often as you do with the Frontier Justice. As well as the more frequent reloading, it's very unlikely that you will get, or be able to use the Revenge Crits. The Widowmaker is out of its place, as the Shotgun is only really for enemies out of the Sentry's range, and the Widowmaker is not efficient without a sufficient metal source.
Secondary Weapons
The Engineer only has three choices and one of them, The Wrangler is banned in the vast majority of leagues, this leaves the Engineer with the Pistol and the Short Circuit.
The Pistol
The Pistol is the Engineer's default secondary weapon, it has a large amount of ammo and it is good at medium to long range. This means that it complements the Shotgun's small range and means that the Engineer has an effective weapon for all ranges. The Pistol is also particularly effective at harassing fleeing enemies; combined with the fact that it fires and reloads quickly, it can do a fair amount of damage assuming that you can aim it.
The Lugermorph is a reskin of the Pistol, and therefore has the same stats as the Pistol.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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Pistol ![]() |
Point-Blank: 22 512u: 15 1024u+: 8 |
Critical: 45 Point-Blank Mini-Crit: 30 512u+ Mini-Crit: 20 |
Attack: 0.125s Reload: 1.36s |
If unfired in the past 1.25 seconds, shot has perfect accuracy. |
The Wrangler
Note: The Wrangler is banned in nearly all of the leagues apart from the UGC Highlander league.
The Wrangler allows the Engineer to take manual control of his Sentry Gun, it also gives the Sentry Gun a protective shield that absorbs a lot of the damage that the Sentry Gun might take. This means that not even eight stickies can take out a wrangled Sentry Gun, this, along with the unlimited range of the Wrangler, is the reason that it's banned in most leagues.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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Wrangler ![]() |
N/A | N/A | Sentry Down Time: 3s | Banned or restricted in most leagues. Allows Engineers to directly control their Sentry Guns. Doubles Sentry Gun rate of fire and improves missile launch rate at Level 3. Shield provides Sentry 66% damage reduction and remains during down time. |
The Short Circuit
The Short Circuit destroys projectiles upon firing, making it perfect for defending your Sentry. However, it is very weak against players, dealing only around 5 damage, making the Short Circuit only useful for defensive Engineers who stay with their Sentries. Even then, there must be a continuous supply of metal (preferably a Dispenser), as it uses metal for ammo.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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Short Circuit ![]() |
Point-Blank: 5 | Mini-Crit: 7 | Attack: ≈0.8s |
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Secondary Weapon Usage
Since the Wrangler is banned in the majority of leagues, it comes down to the Pistol and the Short Circuit. The Pistol is for those who worry about getting rid of the enemy, and the Short Circuit is for those who wish to protect their Sentry.
Melee Weapons
The Wrench
As the default melee weapon, the Wrench has no advantages or disadvantages, it is used to speed up the construction of buildings and it can also be used to attack nearby enemy Spies.
The Golden Wrench is a reskin of the Wrench, and therefore has the same stats as the Wrench.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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Wrench ![]() |
Melee: 65 | Critical: 195 Mini-Crit: 88 |
Attack: 0.8s | Hitting friendly buildings increases build speed by 100%. Damages Sappers, upgrades Buildings, and resupplies Sentry Guns. |
The Southern Hospitality
This wrench causes enemies to bleed when they are hit with it, consequently it is rather useful against enemy Spies as bleeding temporarily disables their cloak and causes it to flicker whenever they try to use it. It gives the Engineer and his team a better chance of catching the Spy. The downside of The Southern Hospitality is that it gives the player a 20% vulnerability to fire. This isn't that bad because in a competitive game it is vary rare to see an enemy pyro being used at the same time as an engineer is.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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Southern Hospitality ![]() |
Melee: 65 Bleed Hit: 4 |
Critical Melee: 195 Mini-Crit Melee: 88 Mini-Crit Bleed: 5 |
Attack: 0.8s Bleed Hit: 0.5s Bleed Duration: 6.0s |
Hitting friendly buildings increases build speed by 100%. Damages Sappers, upgrades Buildings, and resupplies Sentry Guns. Inflicts Bleeding on hit; total bleed damage 48 (Mini-Crit 60). Increases fire vulnerability by 20% while equipped. |
The Jag
The Jag speeds up the construction of buildings, this comes at the cost of reduced melee damage, this isn't too much of a problem because in a competitive game the Engineer doesn't use melee as much, his primary and secondary weapons are a lot better at dealing damage.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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The Jag ![]() |
Melee: 49 |
Critical Melee: 146 Mini-Crit Melee: 56-76 |
Attack: 0.8s |
Hitting friendly buildings increases build speed by 100%. Damages Sappers, upgrades Buildings, and resupplies Sentry Guns. 30% faster construction rate. Melee damage is reduced by 25%. |
The Gunslinger
The Gunslinger is an unlock that allows the Engineer to deploy smaller, non-upgradeable Sentry Guns which only cost 100 metal instead of the usual 125 metal that a normal level one Sentry Gun requires. The Mini Sentries fire twice as fast however they cannot be repaired when they are damaged. The Gunslinger sees even less use that the normal Engineer in competitive games because the main idea of using an Engineer is that the Sentry Gun will take the full brunt of the opposing Ubercharge, the Mini Sentry doesn't have the health to do this. Instead it uses a different tactic, it is meant to distract and annoy the enemy, it can excel at this as it is hard for Scouts to kill a Mini Sentry if it is deployed in a smart position. For example the window at Badlands middle.
Weapon | Damage | Critical Damage | Function Times | Special |
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Gunslinger ![]() |
Melee: 65 | Critical: 195 Mini-Crit: 88 |
Attack: 0.8s | Hitting friendly buildings increases build speed by 100%. Damages Sappers, upgrades Buildings, and resupplies Sentry Guns. Grants the Engineer an additional 25 Max health. Allows the Engineer to build Mini-Sentry Guns instead of normal Sentry Guns. Three consecutive hits results in a guaranteed Critical hit on the third strike. |
Melee Weapon Usage
The normal Wrench is the most widely used because it doesn't have any disadvantages, the extra construction speed given by the Jag is nice but it isn't really required. Having said that though, all of the other wrenches can be used and it's down to personal preference at the end of the day and also depending on whether it's banned or not.