Grenade (taunt)

“

C'mere, pumpkin. Click to listen — The Soldier

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Upon taunting with the Equalizer equipped, the Soldier throws his weapon to the ground dramatically, cracks his knuckles, then rips a Grenade from his bandolier, and pulls the pin. Upon completion, the Soldier and anyone slow, unaware or simply unfortunate enough to be within 6 feet of him will be instantly gibbed. This move will also destroy buildings if they are close enough. Because of the area of effect nature of this taunt, it can affect multiple targets, as well as kill any enemies that are next to or even behind the Soldier. It is necessary to kill someone using this taunt to gain the 'Spray of Defeat' achievement. As a taunt, this can still be used during Humiliation to kill the winning team members as they come barreling into your spawn, as well during Stalemate. It is possible to survive this taunt when buffed to 300 health by a Medic.

Damage

• Self damage: 256
• Point Blank: 500+
• 6 ft: 500+
• 12 ft: None
• Critical hit: N/A

Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Times

• Attack Interval: 4

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

Notes

• Before the Sept 30, 2010 Mann-Conomy Update, if you were overhealed, you would survive the explosion. This would cause you to get launched up in the air.
• If the Soldier survives the explosion, he will be launched into the air, holding his hand aloft, spinning as he goes. The aerial flair is possibly a tribute to an Air Force airshow.
• You can do the weapon switch taunt bug to be healed while taunting. Press your taunt key (default "G"), then your last weapon-switch key(default "Q") immediately after, you'll be able to be healed or Übered while performing the taunt, allowing you to survive. This may have been fixed in the September 30, 2010 Patch.
• After the December 21st, 2009 update, if you had the Gunboats equipped, you could survive the explosion; as the taunt counted the resultant explosion as a rocket jump blast, it reduced the damage done by 75%, doing 64 damage to the Soldier (not counting fall damage). However, this was fixed in the January 13, 2010 Patch.
• If someone inflicts damage to you whilst you are performing this taunt, they will be credited with the kill with the grenade icon.
• Despite the fact that the Soldier only carries 2 frag grenades, this taunt has no "ammo" and can be performed many times while overhealed. His model also continues to show 2 grenades, even after the taunt has been performed and a grenade is clearly used (as the Soldier was not expected to be able to survive the blast).
• if you are holding the Rocket Jumper you will not take any damage from the taunt but will still kill everyone around you and fly into the air and only recieve fall damage if there isnt a low roof or water.

Related Achievements

Spray of Defeat Use a grenade to gib a player.

Trivia

• This is the only attack in the game that uses grenades (apart from the Demoman's Grenade Launcher).
• The grenades on the Soldier's bandolier resemble MK2 hand grenades but with an oversized safety lever and a more blocky body.
• This is the only kill taunt in the game that has any negative effect on the person who performs it (in this case, death), bar being completely helpless for the duration.
• The Equalizer that the Soldier throws away vanishes once he does so, this was put in place because the Soldier used to drop two Equalizers, one during the taunt, and one on death.
• You could actually survive the grenade taunt three times in a row if you had the Gunboats equipped. However this feature was removed in an update.
• Performing the Kamikaze taunt with the Lumbricus Lid equipped will cause the "Hallelujah" sound clip from the Worms games to play.
• The fact that The Soldier actually does this taunt is somewhat ironic, seeing as suicide bombing is seen to be very 'un-american' as The Soldier would probably put it.

See also

• Kamikaze strategy