Fists

“

My fists, they are made of STEEL! Click to listen — The Heavy

”

Fists are the default melee weapons of the Heavy. They are simply his large meaty hands curled into deadly weapons.

Dealing significant damage with less than normal speed, the Fists are suitable when an opponent is at close range and the Minigun is possibly out of ammo. Alternatively, the Fists may be used to attack enemies within melee range if the wind-up time for the Minigun is too costly. When the Heavy dies with his Fists out, he drops his Minigun, which can be picked up for ammo.

By default, left clicking throws a left-handed punch. Right clicking throws a right-handed punch though this is essentially the same and has no effect on gameplay. Critical hit punches appear as a right-handed uppercut animation no matter which button was pressed.

Players that taunt with the Fists equipped will activate the special Showdown taunt kill, which is known for its immense range.

Damage

See also: Damage

• Base: 65 (59 to 72)
• Mini-Crit: 88
• Critical hit: 195

Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8

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

Related Achievements

Show Trial Kill an enemy with a taunt.

Previous Changes

• Until the Heavy Update, the kill icon for the Fists was that of the current kill icon for the K.G.B. The console version still uses the K.G.B kill icon for the Fists.

Trivia

• If the player is Stunned, right-clicking will still function, allowing attacks to still be made.
• The bucket icon for the Fists have RED or BLU gloves depending on what team the Heavy is on, showing that sometime in the beta the Heavy had team colored gloves.

Gallery

• Fists 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

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  Full 1st person view.

• Bucket Fists RED.png

  The unused RED fists

• Bucket Fists BLU.png

  The unused BLU fists

See also

• Fists strategy
• Showdown