TF2's Strangest Weapon 

The power of funny is unbeatable.

1:57 Very small correction, the Strange Holiday Punch always has the tickles counter (It's actually the way it increases in rank). It counts regular kills as well as the other part, one of the few stranges to count 2 things by default.

1:30 Do note that the Huntsman, Gunslinger, and Ubersaw all have taunt kills that will stun on their initial hit even if the victim is ubered or otherwise invicible. If you're going to die, might as well try those weapons' taunts on the off chance you either stun the Medic or his heal target.

"Like Star beating Jerma. Its just the natural order of things." A man of culture I see

I'm very happy that the holiday punch is the only strange hoovie melee I own

You can also pair this with a friendly Medic's Ubersaw to get him a lot of safe Ubercharge... assuming the tickled victim doesn't just killbind like what happens in the video.

That feeling when you're playing Heavy, you see an uber and you try to stop it but all of a sudden you realize you're the slowest class in the game and you're not able to close the distance.

4:32 IMAGINE KILL BINDING AFTER GETTING TICKLED

"Like rock beating scissors, or Star beating Jerma" had me dying dude, the amount of production quality is insane! Hope to see your channel grow my friend :)

This single-handedly made me want to go out and run the holiday punch. Love the editing and writing!

I remember one lobby with 7 hoovies all wearing Holiday Punch hitting each other, the funny is unstoppable.

*"Like rock beating scissors or Star beating Jerma"* What a legendary statement xD

I stun a person in a class wars servers when they rtd God mode with this. P.s. bring back the sandman.

Great stuff, a lot of effort was put into this, I'll do my part and share it.

Remember that telefrags can kill ubered players, so just flex tape your tele exit to the enemy medics back.

Another banger from you Grouch, you certainly are no Grinch.

This weapon, the buffalo steak, and the skullcutter are the three reasons I'm not wholeheartedly on the side of sending random crits to the shadow realm

Now if only it prevented people from using kill or explode…

i loved the "bullshit stun mechanics in other games" bit

Imagine being a medic main with over 10k hours in TF2 You are about to make a game-winning push with your teammate in the last minute of the match And then a random Hoovy wearing the dumbest combination of cometics imaginable and who was also giving sandwiches left and right suddenly pokes you in the back Right as you use your Uber

correction: the holiday punch forces the victim to play the schadenfreude emote, which has different lengths depending on class. Spy has the longest and engineer has the shortest.

For a "meme" weapon, it's surprisingly useful You can stun ubers, rev up behind tickled opponents, and stun the dangerous opponents while they're in a fight, effectively ensuring their death

Medic main: NOO, YOU CAN'T JUST STOP ME IN PLACE AND WASTE MY SPECIAL ABILITY!!! Triggered Hoovy: Pootis POW!!!

im so confused on how valve managed to balance a weapon where you stun somebody for 3 seconds, giving the player the opportunity to deal 1000 damage to the enemy while he cant do anything.

frankly, if there ever comes a point where random crits are taken from all weapons for good, the Holiday Punch will be the ONE weapon I hope still has them

The huntsman, ubersaw, and gunslinger have a taunt that can also stun enemies, but it takes a few seconds before it completely works. The Huntsman taunt however is the fastest at stunning enemies since it takes only 1 second.

imagine, a soldier wielding the disciplinary action and the conch, and the direct hit. a medic wielding the blutsauger, the kritskriege, and the ubersaw, a scout wielding the sandman, the mad milk, and the force of nature. and a heavy, wielding the natasha, sandwich, and most importantly, the holiday punch. the conch is for health regen across the board on teammates, the disciplinary Acton is speed heavy up, and the direct hit is to fill the conch the fastest. the sandman is to slow down enemies to close the gap with heavy, the mad milk is for more healing on hit, and the force of nature is to push enemies to the heavy for more melee's, and for the medic to get some uber with the ubersaw. the blutsauger is to maximize the healing on hit in the group for who needs it most. the ubersaw is to fill uber. and the kritskriege is to give crits to heavy. the natasha is to slow enemies down to a crawl for more uber saw, more conch, and more holiday punch action. the sandwich is to heal the medic when he is fatally injured. and the holiday punch, the most important part, is to go on a comedic rampage. is it the most practical? no. but it isnt about how practical it is. its about killing the most people with a laugh on their face. the soldier, scout, medic, and heavy, come together to form the four horsemen of the apocalypse of pub lobbies.

Never underestimate the power of the funny mittens

I am fully convinced this weapon is a direct upgrade from the fists.

I can’t believe you didn’t mention that you can simply avoid the laughing by just jumping while ubered.

I almost always run the Holiday Punch on heavy for those sweet sweet moments. The worst problem with the weapon tho; the puch, if crit, *DOES NOTHING* if the target is in the air. It's such a hard counter it makes them almost useless :(

Calling an ubered medic "shiny dentist" just made it for me 😭😭😂😂😭😂

Ok typically I use the Natasha, chocolate, and fist of steel (tanky mf) but now I am going to make an alternative build: stock, panic attack, Holiday punch

Well, that the Uber saw and the huntsman.

The power of the goofy boxing gloves

Just discovered your channel. You are great.

I never would've thought to use the kritz with the holiday punch

Once there was ubered soldier and I couldn't do anything to stop him. That's why I started using holiday punch

Alternative Title: TF2's Most Fun Weapon. The Holiday Punch is really fun IMO.

I loved all the classic TF2 RU-vid references, especially “calculated mathematician”

awesome high quality vid

0:43 I Always hate when people say Pyros only wm1 because like... he is a close combat class. How else is he going to get close to his enemies? sniping them with his shotgun?

You know it’s gotta be good if it has its own version of strangeness

if youtube man says so, i guess its true

ngl, I did not know about the guaranteed stun from behind. Thought it was only via crit and other holiday heavys

Member when the Sandman could stun? I member

It is the strongest melee because it one hits people not just makes people laugh to death, the market gardener, demoknight swords are outmatched by a finger gun in terms of damage

I'm happy to see Tfconnect doing charity to help people with disabilities, I have joint issues that make it painful to play tf2 a lot so I only really get to play an hour or two a day if I'm lucky. I really love to see people trying to make the world more accessible for others. I will admit though when I read the caption "special effects transforms the lives of disabled people" I laughed so hard cause I thought it meant you used editing software to make disabled peoples lives look better than they were as an ironic joke and honestly I'm not sure whether or not I would rather it have actually been that joke.

just wanna, you make amazing content man keep it up c:

Can't wait for tfconnect

at 1:37, I have to correct you on something : Overwatch 2 got almost zero stunt anymore outside of the healers, specifically in order to make the game less frustrating !

It’s that time of the year when everyone uses it c:

i like to call the holiday punch a glorified backstab

Videos like this wouldn’t exist if the on release Sandman was still around

Holiday punch is my first and only kill streak weapon

I literally disintegrated a Soldier + Medic Übercharge and their 2 other mercs with them

Telefrags also stop ubers. And huntsman taunt also stuns players who are ubered. So the mittens arent entirely alone

I frickin love this youtuber his content is amazing

Heavy must be very good at tickles if he can make someone laugh while they're getting shot at.

Well Scout can stun stuff, too, with his christmas ball thing

This is GROUNDBREAKING

Medic? Sworn to protect? Funniest shit i ever heard. Also genius play lmao

i use the holiday punch for the damage trapping only but this video is AMAZING

"If stun mechanics were given to classes other than heavy it would be a disaster" did we just forget about the sandman?

"A very skilled pyro who is in the right place at the right time can sometimes push back an uber" Holding down M2 is way more skill based than holding down M1. I mean come on, that button is like a whole centimetre or two further away from me!

The goofiest strategy is the meta

Alternatively to having a medic, I raise you 1 fan of war scout and fat slab of red meat. Works on degroot I believe

It’s also a great friendly hoovy weapon :)

Holiday Punch is love. Holiday Punch is life.

a way to avoid getting holiday punched is to jump. If they crit you when you are mid air, it won't count

"a very skilled pyro may be able to push back an Uber" All you have to do is right click in their general direction.

4:00 i thought you said star vs the germans 💀💀💀

Waiiit a minute, I just watched Robert Thomson's video on making animations for games, I saw the slot shot game and thought "yooo that actually looks kinda fun" and wanted to see if I could download it. I've already seen a video of yours.. RU-vid wants me here, I guess.

The ultimate friendly Hoovy weapon

you must also mention the huntsman you can tauntkill to hold either the medic or the player they are ubering in stunned place

0:43for me i walk straight forward spamming right click and get confused why the shiny medic didn't disappear from existence (seriously how the fok do i do it without dying i tried every round a corner dodging and mind games i know and i still die after delaying the uber for 3s)

The loose cannon can also stuff Ubers

Funni good good i love funni critz

I want to let you know, the mittens once allowed me to get a random crit streak, and absolutely destroy a heavy and 2 medic combo. This weapon is indeed broken.

The power of Spyro music is great

fire

wow so cool, nice vid

Damn goofy ahh gloves goes tickle tickle

When I played Team Fortress 2, my Heavy loadout was Tomislav, Sandvich and Holiday Punch.

soldier laughs and then dies

The problem i have is that it doesn't work against enemies who can't "taunt" at the time you hit them, like when they are jumping. Also, against players that aren't ubered, just dealing damage is better than the stun. At least is a fun weapon

Make a heavy punch a sniper with a holiday punch item 1:29

Yes but also no the Holiday Punch is special and is able to stop a uber BUT the Huntsman Taunt or if you are Crazy enought the Gunslinger is also great for Taunt stun the enimies if uberd or not

medic, sniper and m a y b e scout can also stun

"TF2 has developers? Plural? News to me?" :3

Rip sandman stun

I miss the old sandman/guillotine combo

Random crit lover? Subbed

I LOVE GROUCH!!!

Tickly ticklers can tickle the unticklable

bind space +jump there i just countered it

you forgot to mention that if someone is taunting, you can’t make them laugh. which gives you an opportunity to level the strange holiday punch

Huntsman taunt has stun to

Oh, I'm in this video, neat.

if only players knew how to b hop, everyone except heavy would be invoulerable to holiday punch uber stuffs