Pyro

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Pyro in its usual spandex.

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The RED Pyro, unmasked.

The Pyro (gender unknown) is a character in the game Team Fortress 2 and is the arch-enemy of the Spy. Its hobbies including burning things, setting things on fire, and killing people with its flamethrower.

Pyro's main dislike is being blown up (which happens A LOT).

Arsenal

Basic

• Flamethrower: Used short-range for burning his enemies to a crisp. Can also blow people back.
• Shotgun: Ugh, another shotgun...anyhow, used for slightly longer ranges.
• Axe: A novelty from Pyro's time as a failure of a firefighter, now for hacking open your ribcage instead of a locked door.

Updates

• Backburner: Replacing your Flamethrower, it does more damage when you burn the backs of enemies at the expense of your airblaster.
• Flare Gun: Can set distant foes aflame. Replaces the Shotgun.
• Axe-tinguisher: Does less damage normally then the Axe, but does 100% crit damage when they're on fire. You'd figure the barbed wire alone would do more damage, right?

Community

• Homewrecker: A hammer that does more damage to Engineer buildings, although I don't see the point because you could just use your Flamethrower or Flare Gun. Can also whack enemy sappers off friendly buildings. At least it's actually handy now.
• Degreaser: For less burn damage you switch weapons faster. The logic to this? None at all, but handy for Pyros who are forced to go melee or shotgun.
• Powerjack: This hefty hammer deals more damage and restores health on a successful kill. Oh I get it. When you're struggling, you JACK their POWER by taking their health.
• Back Scratcher: This tough rake deals more damage, but Medics give less healing to you. You'll have to make do scavenging health crates, which in turn give you more health!
• Detonator: The Pyro can now detonate his Flares remotely, starting his own deadly fireworks display to the tune of Scouts running around shouting "FOI-YAH! FOI-YAH!"

Promotion

• Sharpened Volcano Fragment: Carved from The Pit's finest obsidian, this glowing Axe alternative sets opponents on fire. The Circle of Fire is complete.
• Maul: It's a weapon all the way from Planet Mars! But...functions the same as the Homewrecker. Only bother if you like how it looks.

Event

• Saxxy: Only a select few received this coveted statuette of good old Saxton said to have been carved by King Midas/Sauron specially for the Saxxy Awards replay contest. Now MORE people are turning their enemies into gold and holding bragging rights!

Special Note: When the Pyro wields the Degreaser, the Powerjack plus a hat called the "Attendant" together, he moves faster but is more vulnerable to bullets. W + M1 just got worse.

Quotes

• AHAHAHAHAHA OOOAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
• OW
• MMMMM MMMM MMMMMMMMOOOOKMM MM

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Trivia

• Is one of the three only people Dan Hibiki has ever defeated, the others being Chuck Norris and Barry Scott.
• Was once killed by Soldier's Falcon Punch, only to be brought back to life because it's used to that sort of thing.
• Yearns to start a rock and roll band when TF2 is over, and can often be seen playing its axe like a guitar to shitty rap music.
• Medic has agreed to be violinist for Pyro's band, but first the never-ending war in Team Fortress must end.
• Has a potential immunity to Super AIDS. This has yet to be confirmed, however.
• Can perform a Gadoken, as seen in some videos.
• Looks like Adrian Shepard.
• Its gender is often the subject of debate and nobody is quite sure on who exists under that baggy suit.
• Has sued the man in the gas mask from that lame-looking horror movie, My Bloody Valentine.
• Owns a pink purse as seen in the respawn rooms in TF2.
• If you get a kill with this class, people will burn up with anger pretty easily. Heh heh, get it? Burn up? Pyro? Heh heh, eehh...
• It's a flamer. Lol, another fire joke...
• Has multiple Pokemon, all fire types.
• Has the same voice actor as the Spy, ironically.
• Worked with the Demoman on the pyrotechnics for KISS in the '70s and early '80s.
• Its suit contains asbestos.
• The Pyro spends some of its spare time helping the British Army control a mutant outbreak in London.

See Also

• Team Fortress 2
• Fire