Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker

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See? I told ye they were a buncha' wee lasses! Click to listen — The Demoman on dead horsemen

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The Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker is a melee weapon for the Demoman class. It appears as a rustic single bladed axe once wielded by the Horseless Headless Horsemann. It is covered in notches and sports a malevolently grinning face.

This item is similar to the Eyelander in damage and attributes. Just like the Eyelander, it does increase the player's speed and health upon decapitating another player, and if the player manages to decapitate another Demoman who is wielding the Eyelander or the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker, the enemy's accumulated head count will be added to the player's, as well as the enemy's individual head. It will only drop with the Unusual rarity name color. This item can be crafted using the Unusual Haunted Metal Scrap, acquired from the Gored! achievement.

Damage

See also: Damage

• Base: 65 (59 to 72 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 88
• Critical hit: 195 (cannot Crit randomly)

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8
• Damage Per Second: 81

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

Related Achievements

Beat Me Up, Scotty Use a critical swing with the Eyelander to kill 5 enemy players. Brainspotting Decapitate 50 enemy players. Left 4 Heads Decapitate 4 players with only 10 seconds between each kill.

Shorn Connery Decapitate a cloaked Spy. Slammy Slayvis Woundya Decapitate an enemy Soldier who is brandishing the Equalizer.

Blueprint

Refined Metal		Haunted Metal Scrap		Scotsman's Skullcutter		[[Unusual Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker|Template:Dictionary/items/unusual horseless headless horsemann's headtaker]]
x2	+		+		=

Gallery

• Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

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  Full 1st person view.

• Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker with Chargin' Targe 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view with Chargin' Targe.

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  Full 1st person view with Chargin' Targe.

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  The Headtaker wielded by the Horsemann

Trivia

• Although the axe glows when the Horseless Headless Horsemann uses the axe, the same glow is not present when equipped.
• Much like the Scotsman's Skullcutter, the axe does not have a taunt (aside from the Thriller taunt in effect for the Halloween event)
• The same kill icon is used for both the Horseless Headless Horsemann and the Demoman when getting a kill with the axe.
• The axe is the only melee weapon aside from the Spy's knives and the Sandman's ball to show a person being struck in the kill icon.
• Because the axe can only be crafted using the achievement-earned Unusual Haunted Metal Scrap, the Unusual Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker cannot be traded, unless gifted by Gift Wrap. This was later updated, however, and can now be traded.
• The axe is much the same as the Eyelander but the model and kill icon are different.
• The axe can be crafted with 2 Refined Metals to create one of the two 2010 Hallowe'en hats.