AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Demoknights are the one exception to my "Melee Fight" rule.

Seeing as they are BUILT to win melee fights, it seems appropriate to shoot them.

if i'm a demoknight it's understandable to shoot me

if i have a sticky jumper, bootlegger, and a ham
less okay

No it's still 100% okay

I usually keep my gun out seeing as I'm terrible at using melee weapons.

Then again if somebody made it to my melee range and I'm not Pyro, I'm probably dead anyway.

In pubs, they're actually at a disadvantage because no random crits.

I've smashed in demoknights with my pan so often I renamed it "The pan is mightier than the sword".

If it's obvious they're going melee only, I'll go along with it.

I'd use an SMG or Shot/Scattergun, but for the most part I'd be better off with melee anyways.

its one thing if youre a massive enough killjoy and dont have an awesome melee battle, thats fine, youre just boring

its a whole new level of assholery to interrupt an epic melee battle between two people

bonus jerk points if youre a pyro

Except with how fast a TF2 match proceeds it's very hard to understand you interrupted anything. As soon as an enemy pops on-screen it's just lock and kill.

Particularly if there's a Sniper or Scout involved. The Sniper you assume is going "I'm useless to anybody but I still don't wanna die" and the Scout is thinking "Aiming's too hard much better to flail around wildly and hope something connects."

Honestly, if the server starts trending towards a trollsy "hey guys lets have an all-pyro all-melee battle!" then yeah you better join that and don't be the guy that blows everyone up with stickies.

Of course, depends on how cheesy the members of that server are feeling.

fun story one time i was on a low-gravity orange server (no other wacky stuff, no rtd or crazy stuff) and i took out a bottle as demoman and started just bashing heads and no one could even fucking scratch me it was the greatest thing. i ended up killing a bunch of the other team repeatedly with the bottle crits. it was probably the most fun i've had on tf2.

if you're looking for a code of honor for melee in your shooty game you're probably not going to find it. while melee can be a fun goof thing it's definitely not the focus of the game and thus isn't necessarily what a lot of people are looking for in their team forts, and will voice their favored playstyle by practicing it, and shooting the dude coming at them with a one-hit killing sword/bottle/shovel/bust/whatever. plus melee's a viable option even if the other guy is shooting so it's not that much of a big deal.

If I'm pubstompting I'm really not going to stop to entertain the guy coming at me with a pan.

well that would be because you hate fun

we have been over this

My favorite servers are the ones that allow pre-match-start teamkilling all-melee deathmatches.

No, I'm having plenty of fun barbecuing you.