Pyroshark! The Strategic Guide to Pyrosharking

WARNING: May contain bad grammar, opinions on the internet, and bad descriptions. Now that thats done, we shall ask the #1 question... What in panis cupcakes name is a "Pyroshark"? Well the answer is a very moist murderer :] BTW This is my first guide so I hope if it does suck it doesnt make me wanna cry when I look in the comments :C

Weapons

PRIMARYS
As a pyro you have 5 primary weapons, Stock, Backburner, Degreaser, Plogisinator, and the Rainblower. Lets go over what they can do.

Flamethrower/Rainblower
The stock and reskin of the stock flamethrower.
Postives None
Negatives None

Backburner
Self explanatory, it burns backs.
Positives
Full crits when behind enemy
Negatives
Airblast cost 150% more ammo to fire (50 instead of 20)
Does not get random crits

Degreaser
Name says it all like the backburner.
Positves
Gives 65% faster weapon switch. Hesne the name "Degreaser"
Negatives
Deals 10% Less Damage
Deals 25% Less Afterburn damage

Plogistinator
The W+M1 flamethrower
Positives
Upon dealing enough fire damage, secondary fire initiates 'Mmmph', which fully restores health and gives guaranteed Critical hits over a short period of time. Damage taken is reduced to a fraction during the taunt.
Negatives
Cannot airblast
Doesnt get random crits
Deals 20% less damage


SECONDARYS
As a pyro you have 6 secondary weapons, stock shotgun, flare gun, detonator, reserve shooter, manmelter, and scorch shot.

Stock Shotgun
The pyros only gun with bullets.
Positives
None
Negatives
None

Flare Gun
Simple, its a flare gun
Positives
Guarantees Critical damage on burning targets.
Negatives
None, unless you consider single shot one.

Detonator
A flaregun, that detonates and you can flare jump with.
Positives
Guarantees Mini-Crit damage on burning targets, regardless of distance (only when flare is not detonated).
On detonation flare destroys enemy sticky bombs.
Negatives
25% explosion self-damage vulnerability on user.

Reserve Shooter
A shotgun part of a soldiers set but can be used as pyro.
Positives
15% faster weapon switch speed.
Mini-crits airborne targets for 3 seconds after switch.
Negatives
Has 50% magazine capacity.

Manmelter
Pretty much "melts" men.
Positives
Does not require ammo.
+50% projectile speed.
Negatives
Does not get random Critical hits.
Has a 20% slower firing rate.

Scorch Shot
The meet the pyro secondary
Positives
Flare knocks back target on hit and ignites enemy in a small radius.
Flare can be used to destroy stickybombs.
Flare falls to the ground after directly hitting an enemy, lying there for a little while, potentially igniting those who touch it.
Negatives
-50% damage penalty.

MELEE WEAPON
TO BE A PYRO SHARK YOU NEED THE NEON ANNIHILATOR.
Neon Annihilator

Positives

100% Crits to wet players
Able to remove sappers from buildings
Negatives
-20% damage penalty vs. players.
No random critical hits.

Loadouts
Personally I use the Degreaser, Shotgun, and Neon Annihilator.

Degreaser to switch quicker to my Neon Annihilator/Shotgun
Shotgun to finish off enemies who didnt die and have low health.
But this is just my loadout and it works quite well.

Maps

These are the maps that have the best area to pyro shark IMO

1st. The one famous pyro sharking map, 2Fort.

The pyro sharks on this map live in the sewers.
http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949700980402/AF5E392E9ED95CD30052590FAF5B1AD3302E39D1/256x0.resizedimage
As you can see, there is a medium health and ammo kit to refill you if you need it.
If you are on red, go in red sewers, since most likely the blu team will try to go to sneak into red base, but if there is a pyro shark there, you can kill them or try to and if you fail, call out to your team mates that there is someone coming up through there. Same goes for if you're on blu team.

2nd. Sawmill, the map where people are stupid and walk into saws...
Here the pyro sharks normally live in these areas of the map.http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949701092092/B9A36D0D9D01FAA77CF7BA0860B73AA88065D1D4/256x0.resizedimage http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949701095756/A6C8356E6F11F8CE38A7FAB231F7CDD8F56BB1EE/256x0.resizedimage http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949701098056/B21CB9EC2CDD4C3DEAC4C3F61309313852902B6D/256x0.resizedimage
As you can see there is a medium sized health kit on one of the wooden plank stacks.
A small health kit on the log.
And in the intell room you can kill people right as they are about to get it.

3rd. Well, a map with trains and water.
http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949701225791/5379EEA219A03E3440F6179998C61FF9D01396BD/256x0.resizedimage
The pyro sharks live in the middle between redspawn and the point and blu spawn and the point.
There arent any health kits in the water though so if you have low health you can do one of these options, wait for a medic (if you have one on your team), find a healthpack, yell YOLO and try to get some more kills while your parents (if you live with them still) question you why you yelled YOLO and what it means.

4th. Frieight, another map with trains.
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949701293444/31561F0572AFD7CBEE6970A3143FC218ED88FF53/256x0.resizedimage
This area is similar to wells under water ways, but with 1 way pipes.

5th. Pipeline, a payload race map.
http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949701326835/F8A8AF3BD0DF4B3FD7EC9E627C5F5A71C026C0A3/256x0.resizedimage
Not as many people will come here but they may come here if they are trying to escape other people so you can finish them off!

6th. Ravine, I dont have much to say about this map other than I only really know if from saxton hale/freak fortress mods.
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949701389909/9E9149B96B886C213D5D11F084472F48C8D2E793/256x0.resizedimage
This isnt the best picture of the area by all means but it shows you where it is. To the left of the area its centered on there is a little area with some health and ammo, where I go when i pyro shark.

7th. Watch tower, again only really know about this map threw saxton hale :/
http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949701422531/0BE8559201A9A22742D718F50AD906C6AEB61BAD/256x0.resizedimage
The valley of the map has good areas of water inside of it where pyro sharks live.

8th and last. Lake side, IMO the best map for pyro shark surprises.
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/615027949701476062/526934BCEA9870A6D71AE3B39554636408DB1660/256x0.resizedimage
Here is where the one and only full health kit lies on this map, in the middle of the water area, for pyro sharks they wait until someone falls in the water of this area to strike and people dont really see this coming which is weird to me.

Wrap Up

Well that is my guide to strategic pyro sharking. Hope this helped you get into pyro sharking :)

Please in the comments tell me if I missed any important information about the maps, weapons, or if you have other strats I'd love to know about them :)

Sorry for the images being small :/ I got em off of wiki.tf2.com :C which reminds me!

ALL INFORMATION/ IMAGES ABOUT WEAPONS AND MAPS ARE FROM http://wiki.teamfortress.com

[bone]

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[NebulaTheBun]

add plr_bananabay, there much waters

[The Man Who was Thursday]

Am I the only one that thinks the shark hat for pyro should university say your a pyro shark?

[catswork]

Yo I made a guide about how pyrosharks act

[John Doe]

No, the best normal pyro shark outfit is Moustache Grey Pyromancers mask, Moustache grey rubber glove Sight for sore eyes

[John Doe]

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[Chipy]

i am the king of pyro sharks (note im not the real one but wat eve)

[Arcana]

PYRO SHARK! PYRO SHARK!

[Carpal Tunnelvision]

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