Spy

Spy
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Basic Information
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Type:	Support
Health:	125 / 185 60 / 90 / 180 with the Conniver's Kunai equipped 100 / 150 with the Big Earner equipped
Speed:	100% 93% disguised as a Demoman 80% disguised as a Soldier 77% disguised as a Heavy
Meet the Spy

“

This Spy has already breached our defenses... You've seen what he's done to our colleagues! And worst of all: He could be any one of us. — The BLU Spy on the RED Spy.

”

The Spy, hailing from an indeterminate region of France, is a fan of sharp suits and even sharper knives who relies on stealth and trickery to aid the team. Using his unique array of cloaking watches, he can render himself invisible or even fake his own death, leaving unaware opponents off-guard. His Disguise Kit lets him take on the form of any class on either side, allowing him to blend in while behind enemy lines before literally stabbing his unsuspecting 'teammates' in the back. In fact, a swift backstab with the Spy's trusty Knife will take out any foe in a single hit.

In addition to being able to assassinate key enemies quickly and efficiently, the Spy has an advantage over the Engineer. Using his Sappers, he can disable the Engineer's buildings — slowly draining their health until they are destroyed unless removed by an Engineer or a Pyro wielding the Homewrecker.

Two other common Spy targets are the Heavy and the Medic. While a Heavy has one of his Miniguns spun up, he moves at a far slower speed than normal — this slower move speed along with the distraction of combat makes for an easy opportunity for a backstab. Medics usually stay very close to their healing targets and do not watch their backs, which renders them as prime backstab targets. Snipers are also obvious Spy targets due to their slower movement speed and lack of nearby awareness when scoped into their Sniper Rifles. Snipers can use a Razorback to defend themselves from a single backstab, which also stuns the offending Spy.

The Spy is voiced by Dennis Bateman.

Bio

Name: Unknown Location of origin: France Job: Uncloak & Dagger Motto: "Gentlemen" Contraptions: Disguise Kit / Cloaking Watch Emblems:    Description: A master of disguise, misdirection, and the byzantine details of who really runs things, the Spy is a double reverse quadruple agent whose reflexive suspicion is entirely justified. For he is the Spy - globetrotting rogue, lady killer (metaphorically) and mankiller (for real).

Basic strategy

Main articles: Spy tips, Spy strategy

• Use your Knife to backstab enemies from behind, killing them instantly.
• Disguise yourself as an enemy with your Disguise Kit. Beware, attacking will remove your disguise.
• Hit MOUSE2 to Cloak and become fully invisible for a short period of time.
• Use your Cloak to get behind enemy lines, and your disguise to move around amongst them.
• Try to act like an enemy while disguised. Observe where enemy team members are, and disguise as one of them.
• Place your Electro Sappers on enemy Sentry Guns to destroy them. Disguises aren't lost when placing Sappers.
• Your Electro Sappers disable Sentry Guns before destroying them. Sap a Sentry Gun before attacking the Engineer.
• Call for enemy Medics by hitting E while disguised.

• While disguised, you can see the health of the enemy. Use your revolver to pick off weaker enemies.

Weapons

Note: Weapon damage is approximate and listed at base value. See individual weapon pages for additional figures.

Primary

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Revolver		6	24	Base: 40 Crit: 120
Promotional Big Kill		6	24	Base: 40 Crit: 120	Same as the Revolver's specs.
Unlock Ambassador		6	24	Base: 34 Crit: 102	Crits on accurate headshot.  Accuracy decreases after initial shot. Has a short cooldown during which it never Crits.  Deals 15% less damage.  Has 20% slower firing speed.  No random Critical hits.
Craft L'Etranger		6	24	Base: 32 Crit: 96	On hit adds 15% charge to Cloak.  Deals 20% less damage.
Craft Enforcer		6	24	Base: 48 Crit: 144	Deals 20% more damage.  Cloaking takes 0.5 seconds longer to fully activate.

Secondary

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Sapper		N/A	N/A	N/A	Disables and slowly destroys enemy buildings.

Melee

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Knife		N/A	N/A	Base: 40 Backstab: 6× victim's health.	Backstab earns instant kill.  No random Critical hits.
Craft Your Eternal Reward		N/A	N/A	Base: 40 Backstab: 6× victim's health.	Upon a successful backstab, the Spy instantly disguises as the backstab victim.  Victims do not make any noise when dying.  Victims' bodies disappear after being stabbed.  If backstabbed, victims' death will not be shown in the killfeed for other enemies.  The Disguise Kit is disabled.
Promotional, Craft Conniver's Kunai		N/A	N/A	Base: 40 Backstab: 6× victim's health.	On backstab: absorbs the health from your victim. Can overheal up to 300% health.  -65 max health on wearer
Distributed Saxxy		N/A	N/A	Base: 40 Backstab: 6× victim's health.	Limited item from the Replay Update.  Killed enemies freeze into solid Australium statues (purely cosmetic feature).  Backstab earns instant kill.
Craft Big Earner		N/A	N/A	Base: 40 Backstab: 6× victim's health.	Upon a kill, the Spy gains 30% of his cloak meter.  -25 max health on wearer.

Taunt Attack

150x150px	Associated items	Description	Kill icon
	Knife  Your Eternal Reward  Conniver's Kunai  Big Earner  Saxxy	Main article: Fencing The Spy transfers his weapon to his other hand and assumes a Fencing position. He makes two quick slashes and one thrust while saying: "I'm going to gut you like a Cornish game hen." "Just lay your weapons down and walk away."

PDA items

Weapon	Notes / Special abilities
Stock Primary PDA Disguise Kit	Allows the Spy to disguise himself as an enemy or a friendly player.
Stock Secondary PDA Invis Watch	Cloak type: Timed  Cloaks Spy for 9 seconds.  Cloak meter can be refilled from ammo sources.
Unlock Secondary PDA Cloak and Dagger	Cloak type: Motion sensitive  Cloaks Spy indefinitely while standing still.  Has double Cloak recharge rate.  Has faster Cloak consumption.  Cloak meter can't be refilled by ammo sources.
Unlock Secondary PDA Dead Ringer	Cloak type: Feign death  Cloaks Spy for 6.5 seconds upon receiving damage, dropping a fake corpse.  Cloak meter can be refilled from ammo sources.  Reduces initial damage and subsequent damage received to a fraction (1/10) and Cloak does not flicker when bumping into an enemy, but only for the standard Cloak duration. Prolonging the Cloak will turn it into a standard invisibility.  Has 60% faster Cloak recharge rate.  Has a loud, distinctive decloak sound.  Uncloaking will lower the Cloak meter to 40% if above that amount when uncloaking.  A large and medium ammo box restores 35% cloak (instead of 100% and 50% respectively).
Promotional Secondary PDA Enthusiast's Timepiece	Cloak type: Timed  Has the same special abilities as the Invisibility Watch. Promotional item from Poker Night at the Inventory

Item sets

Main article: Item sets

The Saharan Spy
	L'Etranger Your Eternal Reward Familiar Fez
Effect	Extra effects when taunting.

Hats

Main article: Hats

Official class avatars

Official class avatars
Original set	RED ÜberCharged set	BLU ÜberCharged set
Get TF2 avatars on Steam: Original

Achievements

Main article: Spy achievements Spy pack: 34 achievements, 3 milestones. 1 General achievement

Trivia

• The Spy's voice actor Dennis Bateman also voices the Pyro and the helicopter pilot in Left 4 Dead.
• The idea for the Spy came from a glitch in Quake where players would look like they're from the other team. [1]
• The BLU Scout's Mother is in a relationship with the RED Spy. A file in the BLU base contains photos documenting their activities. The Spy refers to her as "Ma Petite Chou-fleur" (Literally "My Little Cauliflower," which is the French equivalent of "My Sweetheart").
• The Spy is known to speak phrases in Italian, French, Spanish and Catalan.
• The Spy's suit colors changed prior to the game's release. The RED Spy originally wore a gray suit, while the BLU Spy's suit was a different shade of blue. Both had a striped tie and team-colored bands on their suits and arms, which made them resemble Team Fortress Classic's Civilian. These suits can still be seen in the Spy's HUD icon. The Spy's gibs still hold the colors of the old suit.
• The Spy's view model sleeves still has beta color schemes. In addition, the number of stripes on his sleeve do not match the world model.
• Template:W served as the first BLU team Spy.
• In Poker Night at the Inventory, an image of the RED Spy makes a cameo as the Jack of Diamonds in the "Poker Night" card deck. On the card, the RED Spy is shown on the top, and on the bottom there is a RED Spy disguised as a BLU Engineer.
• The Spy makes an appearance in Worms: Reloaded as one of the forts; the rest of the fort is composed of Gravel Pit. In addition, the Spy's red balaclava is a selectable hat for the player's worms.
• The Assassin class of Monday Night Combat has a promotional item with the Spy's disguise mask and the Scout's headset named "Bonk! Slash!". The disguise mask shows a Spy with a black balaclava, as opposed to the in-game team colored one.

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  The Spy playing card

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  The Spy's balaclava as a selectable Worms: Reloaded worm hat

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  The in-game item for Monday Night Combat; "Bonk! Slash!".

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  The Spy's mugshot from the Über Update.

Related merchandise

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  Gentleman's Gela Skin

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  Spy T-Shirt

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  Spy vs. Sniper poster

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  Class Mousepad

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  Red Team Mousepad

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  Team Poster

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  Spy Class Decal, White

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  Spy Class Decal, Black

See also

• Disguise
• Cloak
• Backstab
• Spy match-ups
• Anti-Spy Strategy
• Spy taunts
• Spy responses
• Spy voice commands
• Basic Spy strategy
• Community Spy strategy
• Spy-checking
• Meet the Spy
• Headshot
• List of references (Spy)
• Spy (Classic)
• Merchandise

External links

• Spy page on the Offical TF2 Website
• The Sniper vs. Spy Update
• TF2 Official Blog - Sniper/Spy Update, Day 5
• TF2 Official Blog - Day 6 Spy Update Hooray!
• TF2 Official Blog - Sniper vs. Spy Update, Day 7
• TF2 Official Blog - The Sniper vs. Spy Update
• TF2 Official Blog - Neat Community Creations (Spy Update Hoax)
• In-Depth Spy Guide
• TF2: Spy Guide Part #1: Spying 101