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

	Clearcutter Kill 6 people with your axe in one life.			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/her weapons as if he/she were right-handed, he/she holds the Fire Axe, Axtinguisher, and Homewrecker as if he/she were left-handed meaning that he/she is most likely ambidextrous.

Gallery

• Fire Axe 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

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  Full 1st person view.

See also

• Axtinguisher
• Axe strategy