Thread: Killing a scout with a demo

I am decent with a demoman and on a full server there is a good chance I will kill you (and half your team when you aren't paying attention to the stickies under the cart) ..... unless you are a scout.

I have tried every conceivable way to destroy these pesky little shits and one of two things ends up happening.

1 - I blow us both up
2 - I die

This is especially frustrating in a match where I'm trying to rejoin my team and a scout comes flying back by spawn and blows me away. I have taken noexitpath to an empty server and tried over and over finding an efficient way to dispense with these little brats, but again, unless I get a lucky pipe (which is about 1 in 5 or 1 in 6 chance of happening) then I am shit out of luck. Thus far, my best strategy is run and live to fight another day. That is not always possible, but in the open if I sticky jump soon enough, I can escape.

Discuss

AS you know Sammus, I play a lot of demo. Scouts are without a doubt the most difficult primary enemy because the Demo lacks a straight shooting gun like a shotgun or pistol to hit the little bastards with. My best technique is to either:

A. If they are after me specifically I backpedal directly away from the scout and shoot stickies DIRECTLY at my feet. When he closes on me I detonate them. You will incur splash damage, but it is rarely fatal.

B. If they are just running around the area I am in and attacking me among others I spray stickies in a star or pentagon type formation. Then wait for the scout to run near it and detonate. Scouts move so fast it is difficult to see just one sticky on the ground if they aren't clumped together.

I agree, they're really annoying. I usually end up trying to hit 'em with a pipe bomb and failing :3

Then again, if you're near the rest of your team, you should be fine.

Depending on the map scouts arnt to much of a problem. maps like Well and granary and fastlane are 90% wide open spaces. This gives the scout a big advantage over many classes. But others like turbine or 2fort have their fiercest fighting in inclosed rooms. If your in a small area try and set a trap using corners or doorways to hide the stickies till the scout comes flying in. In open areas your best bet is to lay out a big field of stickies and wait for him to get to close.

I play demo ALOT.. well cause they rule. There is no predictable way to take out a scout... especially if they are close range and then you are reloading your stickies. Often to take out a scout I'll shoot at my feet hope I survive. Place stickies where I think the scout it going and I generally don't detonate until I know they are heading that direction and/or right on top of it. Pretty much stickies all the way... very hard to hit a "good" scout with a pipebomb. I know your frustration :5. But the demo needs someone to counterbalance their awesome might!!

Lay down some stickies and force them to go one way(or if they go over them, blow them up), then lead them with your pipe bombs.

Let's face it; some classes are meant to counter other classes. Demo is freaking amazing in a lot of situations, but was purposefully designed to not be any good at close-quarters combat. So you can try getting a direct-hit pipe, but if it works it's a fluke. You can put stickies where the Scout might be going next, but a good Scout will go around. You can try to bottle him, but he'll probably stay out of melee range.
So if you're caught off on your own, just expect to die.

The best way to deal with souts as demo is to avoid them.

Sticky/Grenade jump the hell out of there if you can.