The Dalokohs Bar Complete In-Depth Guide

Ever thought your diet could use some sweetening? Here's a guide for you that contains the most up-to-date useful information about this wonderful chocolate bar.

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Introduction

This is just going to be a pastedump of the video's script.
Still, enjoy.

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The Dalokohs Bar, or Shokolad Bar backwards, is the best all-around secondary weapon for the Heavy as a fat man that he is today. I don't blame you for having different playstyles that exclude this dish, but to be fully viable and to justify your class slot in your team, you might as well use it.

Yes, you've heard me right, Heavy mains: the Sandvich is not the solution.


There are two major reasons as to why heavies prefer the Sandvich. Firstly, this dish is the most iconic unlockable weapon in the whole game, associated with Heavy's precious treasure and hoovies. Secondly, the chocolate bar was inferior to the Sandvich for 5 years up until the changes in the gun mettle update. Now, let's talk about what makes this unlock perform better in almost all situations.

The basics are that the Dalokohs Bar heals you for a 100 HP and provides a small healthpack to your teammates, but there's more.

Throwing the Bar

The recharge time is triple as fast, 10 seconds instead of 30 seconds, and the timer starts immediately when you start eating. This means that you can eat and throw a heal onto your teammate after mere 6 seconds.


Let's quickly theorise. If you were to throw the Bar 3 times onto a medic, you would heal him more than th Sandvich with the same time required, 30 seconds. 75 hp vs 90 HP. But that's not the whole point.
It is likely that your medic wouldn't become low anyway, if he were to be topped off with a chocolate bar. Since the Sandvich heals for 75 HP, your med would need to get as low as 75 health, which happens a lot less with burst damage - instead, the process is more gradual. For example, imagine a medic getting hit for 50 damage by a random rocket. Would it be worth throwing the Sandvich? No, it would heal for 33% less than intended. However, your medic is still on a 100 hp, leaving him in one shot kill pipe range.
If you were to give him chocolate, not only he would be topped off and ready to keep engaging enemies with you, but you're also able to top him off again triple as fast. Also, you are more likely to not be selfish and throw healthpacks to other teammates than the medic himself, since the cooldown isn't as long. It is needless to say that if defending an objective, you could indefinitely keep a small healthpack on it for anyone to use, including the med.

Consuming the Bar

Okay, so what about the effects the Sandvich applies to you when eaten directly by the Heavy?


Let's start with you being on 1 HP, the health where the Sandvich seems to benefit the most. The second you start the eating animation, you get +50 maximum HP for 30 seconds. This means that every healthpack around will heal you for more, a small one from 60 to 70 and medium one from 150 to 175.
So, imagine you're eating near a medium healthpack. You first eat to 101, and then grab the pack and be at 276 already, the HP you would've gotten from the Sandvich. It is worth noting that the bread product also never fully benefits from the 300 HP heal, since you are never this low, 1 HP that is, unless something extraordinary happens. You could argue that if you take damage, the Sandvich would tank for you, but the heal isn't as significant.

The latter argument was only focusing on a heavy being on 1 HP and being alone, the maximum potential of the Sandvich. If you were to be 1 HP and around a medic or in his range, your survivability would be definitely on par with the other food product. How?
Well, since you're standing still, the med can quickly make a crossbow pincushion out of you, also benefitting from the +50 hp - if he's out of range, he can still top you off to 350 health, giving you more than the counterpart. The 350 HP is very useful in tandem with the Vaccinator, because of the -66% overheal rate. In combat, you technically have 50 more overheal on default speed constantly.
(Quick-Fix is synergizes as well, explained later.)

If the Dalokohs is eaten on full health, without being overhealed, it will get you up to 400 health. Not only you'd make the life of your medic easier by overhealing yourself before a push so he can heal others, but if playing without the medicinal man you get to be your personal medic.

Miscellaneous

Here's some things that I remembered only after doing the whole guide, and I have to thank people like Exany or Red Robot for reminding me. Yes, I did know them beforehand, and it does feel bad that I forgot about these, but still.


The Dalokohs is an excellent assistant when solo pushing into a sentry. Synergizes with the brass beast for this, too.

If used along a Quick-Fix, it will buff the actual overheal of it up to 426. And you only have to eat it every 30 seconds for this to happen. This is simply amazing.

If you use one of the resistance Miniguns such as the Natascha or the Brass Beast and eat the choco bar, you will start to get protected at not 150 hp like normal, but rather at 175 hp. You'll be able to tank more this way.

The Dalokohs is very nice at removing damage-over-time (DOT) effects such as fire and bleeding since it recharges quickly.

And finally, it is likely that the Pyro Update *will* roll out the new changes to the GoRU and the EN. What does it have to do with the chocolate, may you ask? Well, the increased HP you get from eating will probably stack with these, giving you more HP upon rolling out to mid and whatnot.

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When I was questioning pro players in the making of this video as I do always, they told me that often the Sandvich is more useful so that the heavy keeps shooting and being up front in the enemy team's faces. They have said that usually the Heavy throws the dish onto a point and just forgets that he has a secondary for a minute or two.
This is terribly inefficient, since anyone could be knocked into the Sandvich by some sort of explosive and whatnot, leaving Heavy's medic in harm's way. Still, not being distracted with your secondary is a plus to some people. (Actually, the reason why the guy was defending the thing is because he had a strange robotic one. This community needs more enlightenment.)
And yeah, a heavy CANNOT be at the frontline for 30 seconds straight without falling back, only if his team is rolling the other team; even technically - he needs ammo. In those 30 seconds, he would be called out a thousand times and stabbed and headshot and everything else. The Heavy is only a tank if you use specific loadouts.The Dalokohs helps you to realize that it's time to fall back and switch positions, while simultaneously helping your team out by a lot.

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[Chewy]

Rhike I think Array did his after watching Exany's video on it. Also love the Pyro montages and this video is also ranked in my top 6

[Accented H]

I was about to comment that @Rhike

[Ur mom]

damn, sorry

[greirat]

Apparently ArraySeven has seen my guide and made a video about it :( That seems like the most likely outcome. Kinda salty a medic main fucked with my niche.

[Ur mom]

yes

[Accented H]

@vega, I think he's voice is pretty cool :)

[greirat]

@vega you can mute audio and watch tho; also at least I'm not a kiddo.

Changing my voice up again for an upcoming video as well

[NICK THE THIRD]

As a person who has a strange dalokohs bar and leveled it up to Hale's Own, quit and then used it again and ranked up to Epic, I approve.

[Teddy]

*ensue shitposting by snaddyvich mains*

[YingYang]

Instructions unclear, fishstick is disfunctional