i exceeded my daily comment limit (lol), its not about the player, no weapon in a skillful shooter should directly punish competent players for having incompetent teammates. This weapon is balanced with a downside that is easily avoidable, even without the deadringer, you are being fed health for getting a stab, you get an advantage for... getting behind your opponent, something spy is really good at, an upside which prevents you from having to play smart, because you are almost guaranteed to get out alive after you stab someone, you can also use this upside to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ run at peope on the "weakest class" in the game, you can run at a heavy and tank minigun damage for some time, this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb. If theres enough noobs on the enemy team you can basically be invincible, crit sticky? headshot? crit dh rocket? brass beast with kritz? all of that you can tank if you have the overheal and the dead ringer charged.

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then its about the players lol not the weapon, same ♥♥♥♥ with snipers standing in front of the whole team and not being shot at, theres not much u can do about players being unaware

About pyro and the sentry or whatever, dr with kunai overheal bypasses basically everything, you have to deal like 400 damage to kill a 210 hp spy. Id say sentries are common, yes but you can also just get a stab and surf away with your insane overheal, eliminating the hard part about spy which is getting away after getting a stab. Going pyro is optional, again its not hard to kill a spy with 210 health, it is hard if hes 210 you drop him down to 20 he gets another 210 over heal you get him low again and then he gets another stab and gets away. Also why would anyone ever be forced to swap off of the class are playing or want to play because of a spy with a poorly designed weapon that benefits off of f2ps being unaware.

You misunderstand what im saying, spy should not be able to tank a crit dh rocket with kunai overheal and dr. Kunai gives way too much health and supports a braindead way of playing the class (thoughtlessly running around W into everyone praying to get a backstab to get back to 210 hp). This transforms spy from a squishy pick class into a tank that can just run at people. Its not even hard to kill the spy in question before he gets a stab or after. The problem lies in the fact hat you have to stop doing whatever you are doing and focus the spy down and pray that one of your f2p teammates isnt turned back away from him so he can just jump back to full overheal. If the spy only got one stab had no dr and then you could always get an isolated 1v1 it isnt as bad of a fight, the problem is that your teammates are actively making your life worse for not being aware of the worlds most obvious spy doing the exact same thing every other one does.

also most of the classes literally beat spy 1v1 probably even with overheal unless u just spam body with stock revolver or smth