Branding Iron

[twilit kite]

"Pyros of the world, rejoice."

- I must say, I've treated some serious burns before but - ooh my, branding! Zats a new one. It's uhm... "RED Team" it says right here? Oh, another one; "TF Industries"! Say, my dear freunde, have you escaped a human farm or something?

- Doctor, please- Heavy had a long day...

Pyro Melee

Animation shows Pyro using it like a pike.
On-Hit; brands the target!
Branding causes players to receive mini-crit damage from fire-based attacks.
Three consecutive hits will result in a crit. (with a custom-made kill feed message)

RED Pyro BRANDED! BLU Scout

• Branding marks present on enemy player's backside.

- Melee attacks always crit when holstered
- Airblasts cool the iron, which can then only be re-heated by fire sources present around the map/other Pyro players

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOWCH!"

It's a meme weapon, btw.

[warm sky]

well, it's the chekhov's for pyro

[twilit kite]

It's also pointless given the Flare gun already exist.

[warm sky]

not really?

[twilit kite]

dealing crits from far-away is better than mini-crits from upclose, I think.

[warm sky]

yeah, except pyro kinda specializes in close quarters?

by kinda i mean yes. 100%

honestly though i'd like to see pyro with the chekhov's downsides ingame

[fossil gate]

doesnt look like one

[warm sky]

yeah it doesn't really seem like one

[twilit kite]

For me its kinda obvious. I can't find stats that would actually make the idea of a branding weapon sound interesting.

There's only so much you can do with a melee on a class that specializes in melee-range already.

[warm sky]

yeah, but "branding" enemies (hitting them to make them take mini-crit fire damage) has already been thought of by a dozen other people so clearly there's some interest in it

[cinder edge]

The meme part is that 90% of enemies die faster with just flamethrower than the combo

And the downside too

[molten heath]

Still better than the South rework I just witnessed.