Fire Axe

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The Fire Axe is a melee weapon for the Pyro class. It is a classic chopping axe with a wooden handle.

In most circumstances, the Flamethrower is a much better choice for targets in melee range. The Fire Axe, however, is typically used on unaware enemies and for humiliation purposes as it has a high Critical hit chance. The Critical hit animation for the Fire Axe is a swift right to left horizontal swing.

Damage

See also: 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

Clearcutter Kill 6 people with your axe in one life. Lumberjack Kill 3 people with your axe in one life.

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

Trivia

• Although the Pyro's primary and secondary weapons are held in a right-handed grip, the Fire Axe, Axtinguisher, Homewrecker, and Powerjack are all held in a left-handed grip. This may mean that the Pyro is ambidextrous, but it is most likely a developer oversight.
• Although swinging the Fire Axe in player view causes different animations to play, the world view shows the Pyro always using an overhead swing even on Critical hits. This is due to an old patch which provided the Pyro with more hit animations; previously the Pyro would only swing the Fire Axe vertically down.

Gallery

• Fire Axe 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

See also

• Axtinguisher
• Axe strategy