Engineer weapons (competitive)

This article is for competitive play, based on the standard community competitive format.
The community competitive scene changes frequently. Some or all info may be outdated.

The Engineer is a utility class that rarely sees a lot of use in the competitive format. However, when he does it's normally with a level 3 Sentry Gun and Dispenser. Even though he has quite a lot of unlocks the Engineer will normally use the vanilla setup because it accomplishes what he needs to do, area denial.

Primary Weapon

The Engineer's primary weapon is shared by other classes, it isn't as powerful as the primary weapon of the Soldier or Heavy for example, however, this doesn't matter so much because attacking the enemy team with his own weapons is an Engineers secondary concern, firstly they need to get a Sentry Gun up to defend the point and possibly a dispenser and teleporter. That is dependent on the map of course.

The Shotgun

The shotgun is shared by four out of the nine classes, however only the Engineer has it as his primary weapon. It's powerful at close range and not so powerful at medium to long range. It is the Engineers tool against incoming enemies and a good way to deal with Spies as they will be engaging you at close range.

Weapon	Damage	Critical Damage	Function Times	Special
Shotgun	Point-Blank: 90 512u: 6/hit, avg 6 hits 1024u+: 3/hit	Critical: 18/hit (max 180) Point-Blank Mini-Crit: 121 512u+ Mini-Crit: 8/hit	Attack: 0.625s Reload Start: 1.0s Reload More: 0.5s	Affected by fixed weapon spread (1 extra pellet at center).

The Frontier Justice

This weapon doesn't see much use because when the Sentry Gun goes down the Engineer normally goes down as well, combined with that, the Sentry Gun normally doesn't get many kills so there wouldn't be many Revenge Crits for the Engineer to use. The smaller clip size also makes it harder for the Engineer to defend his buildings.

#	Weapon	Damage	Critical Damage	Function Times	Special
Frontier Justice	Point-Blank: 90 512u: 6/hit, avg 6 hits 1024u+: 3/hit	Critical: 18/hit (max 180) Point-Blank Mini-Crit: 121 512u+ Mini-Crit: 8/hit	Attack: 0.625s Reload Start: 1.0s Reload More: 0.5s	Affected by fixed weapon spread (1 extra pellet at center). Has half the clip size of the Shotgun. Can fire Revenge Crits upon a Sentry Gun's destruction