How to fight every class in TF2 as MEDIC and WIN! 

EDIT: 16/03/23 The section has now been unmuted. This comes after a CLEAR and affirmative guideline change from the official channel, “Creator Insider”, (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2hIyPAt-xDA.html) with this specific quote: “Content using profanity, (moderate or stronger words like “fuck”), after the first 7 seconds will now be eligible for green icons, unless used repetitively throughout.” In alignment with RU-vid's policies on swearing and monetisation, I've unfortunately had to mute a portion of the video near the beginning. Please know this was never my creative intention, but a necessary change. For clarity, the line was "how to quickly remember every line from Meet the Medic and repeat them ad nauseum in casual servers until you get kicked and ultimately banned" with a teammate swearing in the background.

"Much like Miss Pauling's skirt, all that Scout cares about is dropping you." Amazing.

instructions unclear, ubered the sniper

I like how “hope for a crit” is a genuine strat for medic

I love that during the med/med match up, you can either see 2 possibilities. 1. You watch both of your brains rot from, "protect and heal," to, "Stab and Kill." 2. I do the ambulance taunt or the accordion and they join

What I love about playing Medic is that if you see another Medic and neither of your teams are paying particularly close attention, most of the time the switch just flips for both of you at once from healing to violence. Whenever I see another Medic, it's usually just on-sight violence.

As a medic main (with over 5k hours) let me just say to anyone using this guide that while the playstyle of “don’t die no matter what, even if it’s boring” is absolutely an integral part of learning how to play medic properly, and is absolutely the right idea to perform the best for everyone, but after honing that, don’t feel like you’re obligated to stay stuck with this “scaredy cat who at least gets the job done” playstyle. Once you know what you’re doing, you can start to do more ballsy things. Following your current heal target past your team line for a bit. Going in for a kill on a weakened enemy. Being a more active part of the front line that assists with their own bit of damage on top of the healing. Using an escape uber to fight your adversary instead of just running away. That kinda stuff. Yeah, none of it’s incredibly smart, but even just a little more risk adds a lot more fun to medic, and helps break the staleness of his meta.

Something I want to add as a Scout player when it comes to dealing with Medics is that we KNOW you do more melee damage than we do, and we’re constantly afraid of that random crit melee (if enabled). A good scout will NOT engage you in a melee 1v1. If he runs out of shotgun shots, we swap to pistol. If we can’t do that, we will reload. Our movement beats yours, and a good scout can fend off a medic long enough to get his shots back.

Honestly probably the best way to survive a heavy is to just surf using his bullets if you don't know how it's simple just jump and his bullets may push you to the direction he's shooting this can be useful but also a risk but again would you rather fight a near impossible fight with a heavy or rather have a gamble and hope to survive

Dude the clip at 9:25 where you bodyblock the Spy to keep him from stabbing your Heavy while he eats the sandwich actually blew my mind. Such a simple strat, but one I'd never really thought of before! Most Medics would just try and hope they kill the Spy quick enough to stop him from getting the stab.

Pretty good video. Though one thing you forgot to include in the Pyro section is that if you're about to die from afterburn and you just happen to have the Kritzkrieg on you, you can use its taunt to heal yourself a bit for four seconds. Helped me out a lot when fighting pyros.

"Medic's game being unusually stale" What do you mean? Medic is one of the only things in my life to give me a adrenaline rush.

Great video, some great points. I have a couple of additional tips as a HL medic. - Dropping is sometimes the better option, if your uber is not going to achieve anything or you are behind enemy lines and will probably die right after the uber expires just drop it and take the extra 8-10 seconds of uber building rather than waste the 8 seconds and then the respawn queue. - Explosive surfing is not always viable, competent soldiers will try to either sync 2 rockets or aim to your body making surfing impossible. Try to surf away from walls to make their airshots harder. - Don't jump when crossing sightlines and kill the beam before. If possible don't test the sniper aim by crossing if it is not necessary. - Sometimes being the target is great. I remember playing a HL pug on a KOTH map and being 7vs5 (us being 5) at overtime (us losing). Obviously I cannot heal enough in this situation to upset the player difference so the best option I thought of was to run to their side of the map and get their attention, I rather distract 3 of their team and have them kill me and even the playing field for some seconds. Obviously it is a desperation play but it is another option you have. -Dispenser armour: while inside a dispenser you can survive insane amounts of damage you have to keep in mind that you cannot surf damage and get out of trouble as easily. - Against spies, play like and owl, turning around every 2-3 seconds (360º). Also--> Turn around 360º before arrowing your teamates, you get sooo many spies like this. - Don't be afraid to drop teamates to keep your uber, just do it sparingly and with good judgment. - This is for HL specially but if your uber target runs out of ammo just drop him out of the uber and use it on someone else, heal the people that will make a difference, not the demoman that is out of ammo because demo is very important class. Use your brain. Also in general (depends of the situation) ubering 2 players can put a lot more pressure on the enemy team than just one (some great combinations are demo/scout, demo/pyro, demo/heavy/scout) but 1 person ubers have the advantage of being a lot longer. - Use your scout speed to roll out and runaway. Crit heal everyone you can as they roll out (another benefit of constantly turning around) - In general there has to be a big skill gap between the medic and the other class for the medic to win, even a competent revolver spy will destroy you in a 1vs1. Your best option is to either run away surfing damage, surfing melee hits... And the most important thing: dying as medic is inevitable, everyone is out to get you. What is absolutely crucial is for you to think of what you did wrong to die there and learn from it.

For the pyro section, do remember that they are not limited to close ranged combat. If you try to run away from one, or if you try to engage them from a distance with the crossbow, be mindful that they might pull out a flare gun. The regular one can kill a medic in two clean shots if they can't heal before the afterburn does them away

Dude, this video is so good, good editing, good information, just good all around. Well done Tregs!

ALSO against spies, turn on your "Damaged team mates automatically call out for medic" tickbox in your Advanced options. It kinda works like the respawn silhouettes and you can kind of 'feel' if the player is a spy or not. Barring that, you could use it to prefire your xbow at corners.

One tip for fighting spies as medic I got from theory Y, turn your automatic medic callouts up to like 95 percent. It helps you notice all your team members easier, but disguised spies call out for health too so it can often give you x ray vision that lets you notice a "teammate" sitting in a corner for no reason or even just helps draw your attention to gamers you wouldn't have noticed were there in the first place and more easily notice a spy before they backstab you. Helped me a ton.

This channel has insane potential, looking forward to seeing what you have for us next.

Playing medic as a spy main taught me a lot, i mean the two classes couldnt be more different yet so wildly similar. You die a lot, you have to remember you own a primary, same movement speed, everyone is out to get you and fixate on you, behind the frontline (but on different sides) and both would ideally be behind a heavy

Syringe guns are actually surprisingly good at killing sentry guns if you can find the right angle, the arc can help you get one in a high place while staying out of the sentries line of sight. Nobody expects this

6:13 WE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE SPY SACRIFICING HIS LIFE FOR THE MEDIC!!!!😭✋

my best advice for fighting a spy as ANY other class with melee is: act like a spy. they don't see it coming. all they are trying to do is get a trickstab off and trickstabs don't work ass well when its a spy v spy, so, if you position yourself like you're playing spy and try to go for "trickstabs" the spy wont be able to comprehend it.

I don't even play medic yet this held my attention really well. Great first video, Treggs!

Dope video, had great editing and pacing and the advice was good too. I'll be sure to run at every Heavy I see and hope for 2-3 crits

I really like how what's going on on-screen always illustrates what you're talking about; it's fantastic when the video is actually accompanying the essay and not just a clips reel 👍

tips, music choice, narration, and editing are REALLY good and all but... ...the LAUGH TAUNT after a kill is what really brings this video all together.

31:43 I cannot agree with this more; I remember my friend playing as Sniper on bad water while streaming to me, and I was able to predict 3 different spies in the span of about a minute coming to backstab him

9:38 by far my favorite bit of the whole video, fucking hype as hell and funny, as a medic main these moments are by far not my proudest but MOST proudest

I came back from Florida to this absolute masterpiece of a first video, I would be embarrassed if I were to make my first vid and compare to this, the editing and script was thought out and looked like you had previous experience, you need to teach me your ways lol

“He’s the only healer in the game, aside from engineer of course” Sandvich heavies: You’re almost right.

Dispensers are better then medics because they can’t refuse to heal you because you don’t have good enough cosmetics.

Great video man! Really good script and editing - this channel is going to go to the moon 🚀:)

Here's a good work around, medic is the "healing class", and engineer and heavy can be "healers" with dispensers and lunchbox items respectively. Also, I am back to rewatch this, it's incredibly polished.

Can’t wait for more content from you. If u have other tips as medic, I’d always take them, despite my nearly 200(?) hours on medic. It is always good to take advice

I really appreciate this! As an up and coming medic main I love getting advice from wise old medics

My favorite weapon combo has to be the Overdose and Quickfix especially on defense, nobody expects to be rushed by a medic almost as fast as a scout

So about jumping around While it is a important movement tool, it’s important not to spam it, especially when vs scouts and snipers For snipers, jumping creates a relatively simple movement trajectory, leading to a easy shot. Its still may be worth jumping when very close to a snipers, like almost melee range, to help avoid the quick scope. Just make sure to jump away from where he’s aiming, or you might fall into his crosshair For scouts you definitely shouldn’t jump when hes close, Its a similar issue to sniper, being jump spammy will lead to a scout just running into your air-born booty and meat-shotting you. For scouts in particular, when your surrounded by teammates and you just need to survive the life trade attempt, I personally recommend NOT LOOKING AT HIM, keep him at 90 degrees from your pov and spamming your W/S keys or similar movement. For some reason this completely brain melts a lot of scouts and makes them miss what would normally be easy shots for them As for explosives classes, jump spamming is still a bad idea, you need to time the jump to get a good surf, otherwise if your hit on the way down you can get tiny knock-up that leads to a very easy follow up. Heavy is the only class I would actually recommend bhopping for, but only to run away. Crouch jump spamming while running away will cause more knockback so you could get away faster. TLDR: jumping is a very important movement tool that needs to be used with good timing, otherwise its detrimental.

21:22 i didn't know this was a comedy special! good shit man

Hey, also remember the Quick Fix is not for use like the other mediguns. You are for heal damaged teammates, not pocket or push with its uber. The quick is good in pretty much cases.

Man am I glad I was recommended this video it is quick, funny and overall well put together. Cannot wait to see more of your work.

Im honestly surprised something this good came from a channel with barely 300 subs, great stuff man!

Great video and amazing editing! Can’t wait to see your channel grow

This is superb! Medic has become my go-to serious “let’s win” class, very often in the top three scorers. I love Medic’s ability to push an average team over the edge to victory. Losing is always fun, too! (I should have ubered, overextended, etc.) Very addictive gameplay, especially when you’ve got that über charge up. Great video!

Amazing video, love the editing and how useful and advice-filled this is!

We need more good medic tip vids like this one, cant wait for more well edited videos from this channel. Keep up the good work.

The ol' yoink and twist

Useful and well produced. Happy to subscribe! Thanks for all of your insights and hard work.

10:40 just before the rocket connects, you hear a regal-sounding man yell “JUDGEMENT!”

Great editing and decent audio can really elevate a video. You have both so congrats on having potential.

You need 30 minutes to say Uber saw crits

incredible work on this video, can't wait to see what's next in store

Very good and well made video, ive been trying to get back into playing more medic again and these tips really do help a ton! I subbed :)

>dies to stab >INSTANTLY opens chat are you alright?

Another thing with pyros is that some are really panicky or airblast-happy, and I've made a surprising amount of escapes against pyros in pubs by approaching them very aggressively with my melee and then surfing on their "instinctual" airblast back to my team. Of course this strategy isn't going to work against all (or even most) pyros, especially if they are good players or use shotguns/flare gun, but in some games this gambit has been a life saver.

This is a really well made video!! Great editing and advice :) I hope the algorithm gods help you out here.

First video and it's already amazing! Good job, your advices really helped.

Obligatory “I’m here before this guy blows up” goes here. But, truly? Your definitely going places, this editing and content is so high quality.

How to win every 1v1: pray that they suck

Underrated video and channel, good job my guy

I am 20 seconds in and i already subscribed. This is pure quality by these 20 seconds alone. Hope you'll grow dude!

1:47 amputator > ubersaw

The issue with the syringe guns is that you have to predict what the enemy is going to do in about half a second. Also I feel that you should make a variation of this video for healing one day.

Some classes tend to think that just because you’re healing them that gives them free reign to run into the enemy team and die and blame you for letting them die It actually pisses me off how I’ll be in the middle of a Pyro, Heavy and soldier and they somehow don’t see the Scout running past them charging me as I watch them charge me like a Cloaker

6:12 spy really just said "GET DOWN MR PRESEDENT"

Underrated as f**k

Amazing video, Great tips any aspiring medic main should take to heart. (which i did)

You can tell this guy's a true gamer; he emotes when he kills someone and complains when he dies. 11/10

Honestly, for a first video this is extremely impressive! Good job m8!

how to counter sniper as anyclass:you dont. very balanced if you dont ask me

This is a very good video. Many useful tips and good editing. But I just have one thing to say: I don't understand medics taunting after some kills. I know they do it when feel out of danger, but even so: taunting makes you vulnerable because you are standing still, makes you lose your position because your team might not wait for you or move around a lot, makes you waste time you could be using to heal teamates or build uber, etc. So maybe a question would be: *Why do you do it?* or *When do you feel it is safe to do it?* Because I personally never taunt after getting kills as medic. I would like to hear another point of view.

I'm glad this video isn't strictly the usual "if you get into any even lukewarm water, you are the absolute worst medic this world has ever and will see" and realizes that things can and do happen that no 40 unusual medic main can position themselves for anywhere other than spawn

You deserved ALOT more subscribers, holy jeez I didn't expect this quality

Hello fellow medic mains

“Only healer in the game.” Fun fact: Every class in the game either has a weapon or an item and/or a mechanic that allows them to either heal themselves, a teammate, or both. Also, a Medic should never put themselves out of position to try and get frags. Just stick with your team and heal.

that move away from mic to breath in from tay zonday ref holy shit. early ass youtube, i was a child lol, great vid

Damn, I like how you sampled these Medic/Enemy interactions!

DANG you taunt a lot after kills. Not saying that’s bad, just something I noticed.

this helped a lot, thank you!!!

Holy shit this is so helpful and you are so underrated, I wish you luck in the future and I hope you reach the top in the RU-vid food chain

dude u for real need more recognition. glad the algorithm has evidently blessed u :D

Very informative and enjoyable video! :D

Crazy how you only have 450 or so subs, though given the quality of this video that’s soon to change haha. Nice video man

Dude, i just started watching your channel, and let me say, you're criminally underrated.

Is nobody going to talk about 6:12? The spy sacrifices himself in the best way.

This video is so well made wtf, excellent job

You have earned a sub sir. Very informative! :)

Thank you for making this video. Medics actually exist now in casual

intrsuctions unclear, ubered an enemy spy.

high quality video for such a small channel, dead ass i thought you would have had like 40k subs also here before 1k :)

This channel came out with a bang, good one

Great editing!

My advice for spy is, if you suspect or know a spy is in the area, find the nearest wall and put your back to it, doing this causes many spies to stab you wherever is closest to your back, use this to your advantage and use your high melee damage output. Spies get extremely confident and cocky at times, ESPECIALLY when they come across medics. So they will be confident they can facestab you to death. And if you find an inwards corner, stand in it. Sometimes the backstabs hitbox slips by your sides and hits the back. Corners will negate that. And if he is unaware you are there (For example heading towards another person on your team for a backstab) Hit him with your melee.

amazing job for a first video! genuinely thought i was watching uncle dane

This was a great guide to the medic. Definitely a must-watch I was hoping that you might cover airblast in the pyro section though but I myself don't know how a medic can fight that.

Damn, its your first video and you already blew up. Very deserved tho, fantastic video.

I love your outlook on spies trickstabbing. People 99% of the time just put trickstabbing aside as a janky crutch but just as much as the spy can learn to consistently trickstab, you can consistently learn how to avoid the trickstab. Facestabs while are bullshit after playing for a while you begin to develop the pattern recognition for when it’s about to happen. Nice vid

as a very experienced medic main I'd say this is pretty great to help out beginners. good on ya

This video is amazing keep making videos ✌️

Ubering Scouts so underrated man! Like I have milked so many scouts for those sweet sweet Assets as they dive in, kill the enemy medic and escape all while ubered!

well done video, love the funny noises