What does it mean to "Main" a class?

[The Chaotic Banana]

What does it mean to do that? Does maining give an ingame advantage? Does it prove immeasurable wealth and respect? Is it the meaning to life, the universe, and everything? Why do people "main"? Is maining like maiming? So if I mained a class, I would also be maiming it? Should I main a class? If so, why? Are you rewarded a cookie for maining a class? Why can't I main the 10th class? What is the most mained class? What is the least mained class? Why is Valve making me ask so many questions?

TELL ME VALVE! TELL ME!

Serious: I think it's wierd that I've played 800+ hours and still dont have a main :\

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

引用自 TMS Street Slug McSlice：

When you main a class it means that you focus most of your time and practice on one class in particular. I for example main soldier so I practice on trying to master it. Some people will really switch between all classes when your new but being a jack of all traits isn't going to make you any better at the game because you wont be able to really main or master any class to the maximum extent.

i thought maining a class meant you spent all your money on stuff for that class only?

[Pierre]

引用自 newturtlebread3 senpai：

引用自 TMS Street Slug McSlice：

When you main a class it means that you focus most of your time and practice on one class in particular. I for example main soldier so I practice on trying to master it. Some people will really switch between all classes when your new but being a jack of all traits isn't going to make you any better at the game because you wont be able to really main or master any class to the maximum extent.

i thought maining a class meant you spent all your money on stuff for that class only?

That is also true. But to me saying you main a class is more about skill not if you buy items for it.

[Crowski]

Sticking to a class is very much a good thing as it's a bad thing.

You're the rare 'All-Around' class, where you like most or all of the classes equally yet can't really stick to one. In competitive, this is very great for the team, say the Medic decides to go to a wedding for their sister, you can be that substitute. Now there's always a con to things. This can be very hard if a team is looking for a specific main and they get some guy who has 90-100 hours in every class, they will be hesitant to choose you, to say the guy who's been maining that class since the 'Engineer' update. You may be thinking: "Why is this idiotic fool talking only about competitive?" well, I'm done with that now, no need to pester me about that. Another thing bad about not having a main is that you could be getting used to say the play-style of say an Engineer then you play Scout for a little while, the human brain can only focus on one thing and if they quickley switch to something else, they will still have that muscle memory from that other thing so you'll be more sluggish with the Scout. It's not weird, but it's rare.

A main in Team Fortress 2 by definition is a class or multiple classes that you have the most hours, spend the most time (maybe some money, but that's optional) and has your very top skill embeded into that class(es) and have fun with it.

If I were you, I'd stick to a single or maybe 2 classes, but it's your choice. (The reason being if you want to make every class look snazzy it costs way more than one class, or you can stick to the ugly default, however, the community frowns upon that.)

[The Chaotic Banana]

Well, thanks to all of your help, I've decided to stick to Pyro, Sniper, and possibly Scout.

[Duckilous]

引用自 Gotta Get A Grip!：

Well, thanks to all of your help, I've decided to stick to Pyro, Sniper, and possibly Scout.

Oh pls no sniper.

[Goosegle]

The class that you choose to master.
You can be jack of all trades and good at everything but master nothing. It's normal.
Please no more Sniper main I mean my team has like 7 sub Snipers but no sub Medic :/

[The Chaotic Banana]

引用自 Nice Original Name, Hoovy!：

引用自 Gotta Get A Grip!：

Well, thanks to all of your help, I've decided to stick to Pyro, Sniper, and possibly Scout.

Oh pls no sniper.

Okay, you have a point. Probably Medic than.

[Pierre]

引用自 Gotta Get A Grip!：

引用自 Nice Original Name, Hoovy!：

Oh pls no sniper.

Okay, you have a point. Probably Medic than.

Soldier dude.

[♠Arachnid Gaming♠]

引用自 newturtlebread3 senpai：

引用自 TMS Street Slug McSlice：

When you main a class it means that you focus most of your time and practice on one class in particular. I for example main soldier so I practice on trying to master it. Some people will really switch between all classes when your new but being a jack of all traits isn't going to make you any better at the game because you wont be able to really main or master any class to the maximum extent.

i thought maining a class meant you spent all your money on stuff for that class only?

This is me with my Medic loadouts.

[mooles mun]

引用自 TrollDoctor M.D：

Just main soldier and then your instantly pro at the game

sigh
yeah, i can see that gibusvision soldier playing plat

if you're jumping on the soldier hate bandwagon to be edgy or funny then it ain't working

[Pierre]

引用自 mooles mun：

引用自 TrollDoctor M.D：

Just main soldier and then your instantly pro at the game

sigh
yeah, i can see that gibusvision soldier playing plat

if you're jumping on the soldier hate bandwagon to be edgy or funny then it ain't working

Soldier is a hard class to master especially rocket jumping. And if you say its easy don't think that if you can pulll of one rocket jump doesn't mean you have mastered it.

[Nostril]

引用自 mooles mun：

引用自 TrollDoctor M.D：

Just main soldier and then your instantly pro at the game

sigh
yeah, i can see that gibusvision soldier playing plat

if you're jumping on the soldier hate bandwagon to be edgy or funny then it ain't working

I hated soldier before it was unpopular.

[[e-mail]]

引用自 Gotta Get A Grip!：

Well, thanks to all of your help, I've decided to stick to Pyro, Sniper, and possibly Scout.

Ignore em and main sniper. The better your aim is at sniper, the better you'll be at hitting shots with scout.

[[e-mail]]

引用自 TMS Street Slug McSlice：

引用自 mooles mun：

sigh
yeah, i can see that gibusvision soldier playing plat

if you're jumping on the soldier hate bandwagon to be edgy or funny then it ain't working

Soldier is a hard class to master especially rocket jumping. And if you say its easy don't think that if you can pulll of one rocket jump doesn't mean you have mastered it.

Rocket jumping is fairy easy.

[☭ Vladimir Lenin ☭]

Let's say you like all the 9 classes. You will probably like one more than the other ones. If you play this specific favorite class more than any other class, it is your main.

引用自 Zalinto：

引用自 TMS Street Slug McSlice：

Soldier is a hard class to master especially rocket jumping. And if you say its easy don't think that if you can pulll of one rocket jump doesn't mean you have mastered it.

Rocket jumping is fairy easy.

Depends. Jumping once and using walls is easy. But try out...
-Hopping
-Going through entire maps
-Sliding on ramps

Rocket Jumping is the reason why soldier can be easy to play, but can extend through a long path.