Fire Axe

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The Fire Axe is a melee weapon of the Pyro class. In most circumstances, the Flamethrower is a much better choice for targets in melee range. The Fire Axe is typically used on unaware enemies and for humiliation purposes as it has a high Critical hit chance where as the Flamethrower does not. The Critical hit animation for the Fire Axe is a swift right to left horizontal swing.

Damage

• Base: 65 (59 to 72 damage)
• 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

Freezer Burn Provide enemies with freezecam shots of each of your taunts.

Lumberjack Kill 3 people with your axe in one life.

Trivia

• The Fire Axe has a Normal weapon variant.
• Although the Pyro holds his weapons as if he were right-handed, he holds the Fire Axe, Axtinguisher, and Homewrecker as if he were left-handed.
• The Fire Axe is one of the few items in the game that do not follow the player's team color when used on the BLU team. The other item that does this is the Razorback.

Gallery

• Fire Axe 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

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  Full 1st person view.

See also

• Axtinguisher
• Axe strategy