Heavy (Team Fortress 2)



The Heavy or also known as 'Heavy Weapons Guy' is a playable character in Team Fortress 2. He is a Russian brute who specialises in defence and wields a Minigun, shotgun and his fists as melee. He has the most health out of all 9 classes (300 health) and the largest of them but also the slowest class.

Why He's Credit to the Team

 * 1) He is a simplistic class to start with in TF2. His high health makes him a good class to defeat hordes of enemies with his Minigun that unloads a storm of bullets in seconds. The Minigun itself is pretty straightforward to use with no reload and high ammo capacity and precision being least important although you still need to strategicly know when to stop spinning the Minigun for surprise ambushes, or when you start spinning it as it has a delay before shooting.
 * 2) The Heavy's high health makes him great class to guard areas, divert enemies to focus on him or survive harsh areas in which he can hold off most attackers on his own and tank flame damage. However, he still has weaknesses that balance this, the Sniper can easily headshot this brute and the Spy is able to sneak behind and backstab the Heavy if he's distracted.
 * 3) Pairing him with a Medic makes Heavy into one of the more dangerous classes to fight which is why most Medics follow these classes. With an Ubercharge activated he becomes an invincible killing machine that can carry his team.
 * 4) His weapon selection does have a decent variety to be used in situations to support his comrades and for fun playstyles:
 * 5) *The Sandvich is a sandwhich that heals the Heavy for 300 health giving him more chances of surviving. It not only functions as a portable healing item but it can be thrown to heal teammates with low health helping his comrades to stay alive longer.
 * 6) *The Tomislav is a Minigun that has a silent spin noise which allows the Heavy to sneak and then shoot at unsuspecting enemies but with a slower firing rate.
 * 7) *Brass beast grants 20% more damage and if spun up will give 20% damage resistance when the user's health is below 50% but has a slower deploying speed and walk speed when holding. This gun is more encouraged for defence type situations.
 * 8) *Dalokohs Bar adds temporary 50% health to the Heavy for a short time but heals weaker when consumed or as a drop.
 * 9) *Fists of steel when worn grants less damage to ranged projectiles but more vunerability to melee.
 * 10) *Holiday Punch are gloves that when a punch is critical will force the enemy to preform laughing taunt giving you time to kill them, a hit from the rear always crit but the crits won't damage.
 * 11) The Heavy as a character is enjoyable to listen with his humourous but cunning personality. Many of his quotes are memorable such as "Put Dispenser here!", "Cry some more!", "We make good team!", "I have plan for you: more pain!". As such, he has become the most iconic out of all classes.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Compared to other classes, he lacks weapon variety for more unique playstyles. While he has decent secondary options to support his team, he doesn't really have many primary options as the Tomislav have been seen as superior to the stock in the community. Because of this, many players have been asking for the Heavy to recieve another update which has become a TF2 meme.