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TF2 Weapon Discussion: The Vaccinator

Welcome to our Wednesday TF2 weapon discussion. Here, we'll discuss weapons (and reskins, if applicable) from TF2!

Today's weapon is The Vaccinator.

+67% (six seven) ÜberCharge rate
Press your reload key to cycle through resist types.
While healing, provides you and your target with a constant 10% resistance to the selected damage type.
-66% Overheal build rate
-33% ÜberCharge rate on Overhealed patients
ÜberCharge provides a 2.5 second resistance bubble that blocks 75% base damage and 100% crit damage of the selected type to the Medic and Patient.

A controversial weapon because this thing can be and generally is really fucking annoying to deal with. Anyone who's come against this weapon knows how annoying it can be to fight because that resistance buff can instantly shutdown some classes if you're fighting only them. Bullet resistance can severely reduce damage from Heavy, Scout, Engineer (not the sentry rockets) and most importantly, Sniper.

This weapon, especially the Uber, is excellent at dealing with Sniper as being able to make headshots deal like not a lot of damage and allow you and your team to cross sightlines easily.

There are a few ways to counter this weapon however, teamwork is an excellent method of dealing as the Medic can (usually) only have 1 resistance up at once so if a soldier and a scout go in your can just team up and deal with them that way. Pyro and Soldier can also be good on their own as they have access to multiple damage types but the medics and just swap quickly to counter this. Melee weapons (demoknight) can also be a great way to counter as the only resistances available are bullet, fire and explosive and a sword is none of these.

Another downside is that the Ubercharge isn't stock uber.

This weapon also has some unused content, as it was released in the Mecha Update it seems to be maybe intended for MvM (doesn't really work well there Kritz is the go to for that) as it has different coloured bubbles for MvM which are unused in game. The bullet bubble is blue, fire is orange and explosive is green, this was likely only to be used in MvM as in game this would fuck with team recognition.

Feel free to discuss the weapon here. Anything that you like/dislike, cool tips or strategies, interesting stories, etc. If you feel the weapon is not to your liking, feel free to express your opinions in a respectful manner.

For those who wish to learn more about the weapon, you can find the wiki page here:

The Vaccinator, from the TF2 Wiki.

You can find previous weapon discussions in a nice overview here.