Pyro

Pyro
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Basic Information
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Type	Offensive
Health	175 (260 with overheal)
Speed	100%

The Pyro is an offensive class. Using their Flame Thrower, they specialise in flanking enemies and lighting them on fire to deal damage after the encounter is over.

Bio

Location of origin: Unknown

Job: Pyrotechnics

Motto: "Mmph mmmph mph-mph mmph mmmmph!"

Only two things are known for sure about the mysterious Pyro: he sets things on fire and he doesn't speak. In fact, only the part about setting things on fire is undisputed. Some believe his occasional rasping wheeze may be an attempt to communicate through a mouth obstructed by a filter and attached to lungs ravaged by constant exposure to his asbestos-lined suit. Either way, he's a fearsome, inscrutable, on-fire Frankenstein of a man. If he even is a man.

Weapons

Primary

Weapon	Kill icon
Flame Thrower

Secondary

Weapon	Kill icon
Shotgun
Flare Gun
Twin Barrel

Melee

Weapon	Kill icon
Fire Axe
Harvester

Tips

As a Pyro…

• …your flamethrower does more damage the closer you are to the enemy.
• …ambush enemies to catch them in the short range of your flamethrower. Use corners to your advantage.
• …your flamethrower chews up a lot of ammo. Pick up fallen weapons to refill your supply.
• …switch to your shotgun if enemies retreat beyond the short range of your flamethrower.
• …you can often set enemies on fire and retreat, leaving them to die from the burning.
• …you cannot be ignited by fire-based weapons. Use your shotgun or melee weapons against enemy Pyros in order to counter this.
• …the flamethrower's compression blast (MOUSE2) is a very useful tool. Use it to push enemies, even invulnerable Medics and their buddies, away or into environmental hazards.
• …your flamethrower can extinguish burning teammates with MOUSE2.
• …your flaregun can catch enemies on fire at long range. This works well against enemy Snipers.

Related achievements

Achievement		Description
	Birthday Blowout	Extinguish 20 Dynamite Pack sticks by airblasting them.
	A Burning Memory	As a Pyro, deal 1000 afterburn damage while you're dead.
	Shotgun Messenger	As a Pyro, land 3 Shotgun meat-shots in 5 seconds, 6 times.
	Molten Steal	Land a Flare Gun crit on an enemy that somebody else set on fire.
	Summary Execution	Decapitate all 9 classes with the Harvester. Scout Soldier Pyro Demoman Heavy Engineer Medic Sniper Spy
	Head Rush	Decapitate 3 enemies with the Harvester in a single life.
	Don't Fear the Reaper	Save 5 teammates from burning to death by killing enemy Pyros wielding the Harvester.
	No, Time to Die	As a Spy, extinguish yourself by killing a Pyro wielding the Harvester.
	Rabbit Season	Hit a Scout with every pellet from a Twin Barrel shot.
	Rip and Tear!	Get 10 meat-shot kills with the Twin Barrel.
	Bringing the Heat	Kill 5 enemies after closing the distance with a Twin Barrel jump.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Bulgarian	Подпалвач	Pyro
Spanish	Pyro	-
English	Pyro	-
French	Pyro	-
German	Pyro	-
Hungarian	Piró	Pyro
Italian	Piro	Pyro
Polish	Pyro	-
Brazilian Portuguese	Pyro	-
Romanian	Pyro	-
Russian	Поджигатель	Pyro
Turkish	Pyro	-

Trivia

• The Pyro's voice actor, Dennis Bateman, also voices the Spy class.
• The Pyro has the same voice for the English, German, Spanish, French, and Russian versions of Team Fortress 2.
• The Napalm grenades on the Pyro's belt were intended to be used as weaponry but were cut during development.
• In Team Fortress 2 Classic, the Pyro is given a new line for their ‘Activate the Charge!’ voice command where he now says ‘COME ON!", This voice line was lifted from Prerelease versions of Team Fortress 2.
• In Team Fortress 2 Classic, the Pyro is the only character who's Meet the Team video is considered non-canon; this, by extension, also makes the ‘Pyroland’ fantasy world non-canonical.