Überspritze

The Überspritze is an alternative melee weapon for the Medic. It's an oversized, bloodstained syringe containing a team-colored liquid. The liquid inside increases with the Medic's ÜberCharge percentage.

Überspritze
Kill Icons
Basic Information
Used by	Medic
Slot	Melee
Loadout Stats
The Überspritze Syringe On Hit: 25% ÜberCharge added -10 max health on wearer "Oh, quit squirming, it's for a good cause!"

Haha! Vhat a bloodbazh!

The Medic after extracting Über from his recently deceased "patient"

Hitting an enemy player with the Überspritze gives 25% ÜberCharge to the user. This also occurs on cloaked enemies, but not invulnerable or disguised ones. As a penalty, the Überspritze reduces the maximum health of the user from 150 to 140 (210 when overhealed).

Because the Überspritze can increase the Über meter faster than it drains, it's possible to indefinitely sustain an ÜberCharge by attacking enemies while one is active.

Properties

Properties
Damage type		Melee
Ranged or Melee damage?		Melee
Taunt		Uberslice
Damage
Base damage	100%	65
Critical		195
Mini-crit		88
Function Times
Attack interval		0.8 s 0.5 s
Activation time		0.2 s
All values are approximate.

Strategy

The Überspritze gives the Medic -10 health, but grants a massive 25% boost to your ÜberCharge meter for each attack that lands. If an enemy misjudges his ability to fight you, take him out with the Überspritze for an instant advantage. If you end up cornered, as a last resort, you can try taking it out to quickly fill the ÜberCharge meter, then escape with the resulting invincibility.

Avoid actively pursuing combat with the Überspritze in order to build a charge. Melee combat is risky against any class; instead, heal injured teammates, as healing builds up 25% ÜberCharge after about 10 seconds and 8 seconds for Medi Gun and Kritzkrieg, respectively.

Überspritze v. Stock Bonesaw

➕ Fills ÜberCharge faster through melee hits

➖ -10 health when equipped

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Bulgarian	Убер-Спринцовка	Über-Syringe
Spanish	Überspritze	-
English	Uberspritze	-
French	Überspritze	-
German	Uberspritze	-
Hungarian	Túloltó	?
Italian	Überspritze	-
Polish	Überspritze	-
Brazilian Portuguese	Uberspritze	-
Romanian	Uberspritze	-
Russian	Убер-шприц	Über-Syringe
Turkish	Überspritze	-
Ukrainian	Убершприц	Über-Syringe

Update history

2.0.0 (Death & Taxes Update)

• Renamed the Übersaw to the Überspritze.
• Equipping the Uberspritze will now remove 25 health.
• Can now Taunt Kill.
• Updated the Taunt Kill voicelines to fit the model.
• Updated Viewmodel animations to reduce clipping from the plunger.

2.0.2

• Health penalty has been lessened to -10 (from -25) health

2.1.1

• Removed -20% fire rate penalty

Trivia

• "Überspritze" roughly translates to "Super Syringe" in German.
• The model was originally submitted to the Team Fortress 2 Workshop in 2015 as the Hypodermic Injector. It was inspired by the unused Syringe weapon from TF2's development, whose model can be found in the tray of a level 2 and 3 Dispenser.
• Prior to the 3.0.0 update, the description quote was: "This doctor has a backup plan!"

Comparison to Team Fortress 2

• The weapon is based off the Übersaw but with a reworked model and a different downside.

Gallery

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  RED first-person view.
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  BLU first-person view.
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  GRN first-person view.
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  YLW first-person view.
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  Unused Global first-person view.