Sniper

Sniper
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Basic Information
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Type	Support
Health	125 (185 with overheal)
Speed	100%

Everything above your neck's gonna be a fine red mist!

The Sniper after assassinating his most recent target

The Sniper is a support class that specializes in long-range combat, who is most well known for his ability to headshot enemy players. He has 125 health and 100% speed, making him weak to spam and chip damage. His main tools, the Sniper Rifle, SMG, and Kukri, are all weak at close to mid range combat, with the Sniper Rifle especially being geared towards long range combat. The Sniper Rifle allows him to charge up shots when scoped for extra damage, or headshot enemies to deal a critical hit. His SMG and Kukri serve as his main forms of self defense, with the SMG being used at mid range while the Kukri serves as a last resort, close range tool for self defense. Due to their effectiveness being primarily limited to long range, Snipers often position themselves in the backlines, where they can be as far away from combat as possible while still being effective. As a result, their main counters include classes that are skilled at flanking, such as Spy and Scout.

Snipers gameplay loop often consists of finding an effective sightline to attack from, charging shots while scoped, and headshotting or bodyshotting enemies to eliminate them from a distance. Due to the resulting tunnel vision, he's often easily flanked, and must either depend on his team to protect him or maintain awareness to ensure an enemy isn't able to get close to him. Aside from flanking, a major threat to Sniper is other Snipers, who often contest each other for control of sightlines, which in turn can make it easier for their teams to push or defend. Due to their effectiveness at long range and capacity for high damage, their primary targets are other enemy Snipers, Heavies due to their slow speed, and Medics due to their power and low health pool.

The Sniper is voiced by John Patrick Lowrie.

Bio

Country of Origin: Australia
Job: Precision Elimination
Motto: "Pink Cloud of Death"
Half rugged outdoorsman, half alien observer, this taciturn strip of beef jerky has spent the better part of his life alone in the bush, slow baking under the Australian sun.

Weapons

Primary

Weapon	Kill icon
Sniper Rifle
Huntsman
Hunting Revolver

Secondary

Weapon	Kill icon
SMG

Melee

Weapon	Kill icon
Kukri
Fishwhacker

Tips

Main article: Basic Sniper Strategy

As a Sniper…

• …the longer you spend zoomed in the scope, the more damage the shot will do.
• …aim for the head to do critical damage.
• …a fully charged sniper rifle head shot can kill most classes instantly.
• …zoom with the sniper rifle by hitting MOUSE2.
• …use your submachine gun^(sic) to deal with nearby enemies.
• …the Huntsman can be used for more reliable close-range combat, at the cost of accuracy.
• …your shot will usually miss if the Huntsman is pulled back longer than five seconds. Reset it by hitting MOUSE2.
• …movement speed while scoped in with the hunting revolver is higher than with the sniper rifle. Move around while aiming to be a harder target to hit.
• …the hunting revolver is a great mid-range option. Use it to deal damage while quickly moving in and out of the frontline.
• …the Fishwhacker will cause bleeding damage to the enemy being hit. Use it to fight cloaked Spies!

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Bulgarian	Снайпер	Sniper
Spanish	Sniper	-
English	Sniper	-
French	Sniper	-
German	Sniper	-
Hungarian	Mesterlövész	Sniper
Italian	Cecchino	Sniper
Polish	Snajper	Sniper
Brazilian Portuguese	Sniper	-
Romanian	Sniper	-
Russian	Снайпер	Sniper
Turkish	Sniper	-
Ukrainian	Снайпер	Sniper
Simplified Chinese	狙击手	Sniper

Trivia

• In Team Fortress 2 Classified, Sniper's first person hand models now correctly show only one glove on his left hand, compared to Team Fortress 2 where both of his hands had gloves.