Engineer weapons (competitive)
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The Engineer is a utility class that rarely sees a lot of use in the competitive format. The Engineer is strongest on maps where the enemy is confined to one key route, such as Attack/Defend or Payload maps.
Primary Weapon
The Engineer's primary weapons are shotguns, which deal some damage, but not enough to take on higher-health classes.
The Shotgun
The stock Shotgun deals consistant short and medium range damage, and can quickly remove stickybombs, the main danger for Engineers.
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The Frontier Justice
The Frontier Justice, often abbreviated FJ, provides guaranteed crits for kills and assists earned by the Engineers Sentry Gun. It has a halved clip size, but pairs well with the Gunslinger for disposable, cheap mini-Sentry Guns.
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The Widowmaker
The Widowmaker allows the Engineer to circumvent reloading by using metal for ammo while granting him metal equal to damage dealt. The Engineer can use this to gain a quick metal boost to upgrade his buildings.
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Pomson 6000
The Pomson 6000 allows the Engineer to deal better with invisible Spies, and to attempt to deter any Medics. It deals strong damage, but has less ammo than the stock Shotgun.
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Rescue Ranger
The Rescue Ranger permits the Engineer to repair his and his teammates' buildings from a distance, as well as picking up his own buildings from a distance (at a cost of 130 metal, regardless of building or its level). It is useful for extending the life of your Sentry Gun, when repairing it with a Wrench would be dangerous. However, the Rescue Ranger has less reserve ammo, a smaller clip size, and deals significantly less damage than the Shotgun, making it less than effective for the upfront Engineer. Also, the Engineer will be marked for death when hauling his buildings, regardless of the distance between him and his building. Unlike the Shotgun, the Rescue Ranger fires projectiles ("bolts"), which can be deflected via the Pyro's compression blast, but the reflected bolts won't repair the Pyro's teammates' buildings.
Primary Weapon Usage
The Shotgun provides the best standard damage. The Frontier Justice allows for surprising critical attacks, but without stored critical hits it weakens the Engineer's damage dealing capacity. The Widowmaker requires metal, and without accuracy will quickly drain your metal supplies. The Pomsom 6000 allows for easier Spy-checking, but deals less up-front damage. The Pomson can be used to reduce medic Übercharge, but it is rare to see an Engineer in such close proximity to a Medic.
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 has the same stats as the Pistol.
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The Wrangler
The Wrangler allows the Engineer to take control of his Sentry Gun, determining what it fires, when it fires, and where it fires. It can fire at an overall faster rate than normal, and shields the sentry from 2/3 of incoming damage. When it is switched out of being active, it will de-activate the sentry for 3 seconds, leaving it shielded for that time.
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The Short Circuit
The Short Circuit destroys airborne and placed projectiles en masse. It requires 35 metal per shot, and deals only five damage to players, making it ineffective offensively.
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Secondary Weapon Usage
The Wrangler is best suited to 6v6, but is rarely usable due to restrictions. The Short Circuit is highly useful, as it can deny stickybombs, but requires a more passive Engineer, and denies the Engineer of a second ranged weapon. The Pistol can help compliment a Shotgun for increased ranged damage, or eliminating Spies. Most Engineers tend to use the Short Circuit for this reason.
Melee Weapons
The Engineer's melee weapons determine key characteristics about his Sentry Gun. All of them can upgrade Dispensers, and increase construction rates by 90% by hitting buildings which are being upgraded or built. Damage removes Sappers in two hits, and repairs/reloads Sentry Guns.
The Wrench
The stock Wrench can build Sentry Guns that can be upgraded to level three.
The Golden Wrench has the same stats as the Wrench.
The Eureka Effect has the same stats as the Wrench, except it cannot haul buildings. Instead, alt-fire teleports the Engineer back to spawn with full ammo and health.
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The Southern Hospitality
The Southern Hospitality functions identically to the stock Wrench with regards to buildings, it simply deals bleeding damage on hit at the cost of increased damage from fire and it cannot inflict random critical hits.
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The Jag
The Jag provides 30% faster building, upgrading, and deploying times, at the cost of reduced melee damage.
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The Gunslinger
The Gunslinger provides the Engineer with a smaller, faster turret. It cannot be upgraded, repaired, or sped up in building. The Gunslinger cannot randomly crit, but the third hit of any three-hit combo will be a guaranteed critical hit. It provides the Engineer with an additional 25 health.
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Melee Weapon Usage
The stock Wrench provides solid melee damage with a normal Sentry Gun. The Southern Hospitality grants bleeding damage for additional Spy-checking at the cost of taking increased fire damage. The Jag provides a key buff for a quick setup with a 30% faster build time. Keep in mind that the Jag requires 3 hits over the normal 2 to kill a Spy. The Gunslinger grants a 25+ health buff and access to Mini-Sentries, which allows for a faster but more temporary setup. The Eureka Effect is highly situational, but allows the Engineer to survive if his nest is compromised.
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