Medic 101: The Quick-Fix

[@Theory-Y]

I was already seeing some confusion in the comments about the average life duration statistics. I can assure everyone that the clips of me “giving up” and dying during Uber were from after the spreadsheet was completed, and I was just trying to capture funny moments. Additionally, the big reason for this discrepancy is from how I play using stock Uber. I generally sit further in the back where I can abuse crit heals and build safety while buffing as many of my teammates to a complete 150% as I can. Then I Uber in when ready. That playstyle doesn't work with quick fix because of the weak buffs, so you are forced into more of a frontline healing role, which will unsurprisingly lead to more deaths. Yes, quick fix heals more than stock if you have the same amount of deaths, but that is UNREALISTIC and IRRELEVANT DATA because, in real causal games, it's just easier to stay alive while being just as effective with stock. With quick fix ON AVERAGE, you will die more, thus resulting in less healing if you play stock differently like I do. I also play very aggressively with the vaccinator, yet it has even longer lives than stock because of bubbles safeguarding the medic. Thank you for listening to my TED talk.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

Wild, wish Id know how to play stock medi gun medic as good as you :0

[@kaludjerovicilija]

Hey I want to how do you make your teams health-bar look so clear and big?

[@ObamaYoMa]

my favorite medigun

[@Needs-Caffeine]

Theory-Y has spoken

[@Appletank8]

TIL I'm not supposed to be so close to the battle line as Stock Medic, or even Kritzkrieg.

[@UncleDane]

The Quick-Fix having the lowest win-rate makes sense to me because I typically only switch to it when my team is in a losing position. In other words, the QF has always been my "I'm on the losing team" pick. The disadvantages don't come into play as much when your team just doesn't possess the skill required to optimally take advantage of getting Ubered or Kritz'd. So I find the QF is the most useful when your team has a survival problem. And hey, maybe it doesn't actually help that much more when your team is a lost cause, but when your team ignores when they're being Ubered anyway, why not just switch out an Uber for a faster way to delete how much damage your careless team keeps absorbing. Great video!

[@Xero-Space]

I was gonna write out a comment about my thoughts on why I think it's still pretty good but this pretty much sums it up since I generally default to it in those situations as well since generally all the other mediguns need you to have someone who can utilize the uber

[@TheManDude]

So basically the inverse of “If you’re winning: great! If you’re losing: UGGH.”

[@Theory-Y]

Yeah that makes sense anecdotally, but when recording these stats I wasn’t switching to the quick-fix when losing, I usually picked my medigun at the start of the round based on map/teammates. I think a huge part of the low win rate is that on attack defense and payload maps if you run quick-fix on defense you aren’t going to be able to stop enemy Uber pushes as well as you could have if you ran stock or vaccinator or kill the opposing medic like you can with kritz. And not being able to effectively halt Ubers is going to result in a loss on defense, especially on uncletopia where there are usually a couple medics per team. Ironically I think the win rate would have been higher if I used it more on offense even against sentry nests just because it seems to me that on a lot of maps offense is just favored to win,

[@StaminaLoss]

​​@@Theory-Y Honestly yeah, that's how I always used the Quick Fix, like it is really good offensively, but on defense loses when they win a push opportunity and they have all day to do so xmx Always felt like it was really good offensively because you always have uber on hand and is really good for group pushes. Like, the overheal + healing is all you need if you have a team pushing since you can survive the initial damage taken and have the other teammates bail you out with having better opportunities to attack and kill/distract the enemy team. Felt like that's where the power of it is, it's quicker and more consistent to push in with as a team than it does for 2v8 fights. Even sentries weren't that bad as you are still given a lot of time compared to doing so without the uber and lack of pushback, on top of using yourself as a temporary shield. Though, stock is still king there X3 Kinda curious since it always worked well, but ehh. Just curious if old knowledge still applies X3

[@peytonvaldez2892]

so you could say 😂 it's a "quick-fix" for a less skilled team

[@magicarmyman]

Honestly I find the quick-fix less stressful to play, and when you play tf2 as a chill game it makes sense to use it more often.

[@Theory-Y]

That's how I use it often too. Just to chill out with some heals.

[@Domthecoverguy]

@@Theory-Y im not done watching the video, im only at 3:11 but i just wanna say that i use stock unless there is more than 1 medic on our team, i let the other medics do their thing while i keep everyone else alive, thats why i actually prefer using the Overdose alongside it (hmmmm its almost as if they are in some way made to pair with eachother, almost as if they were a item set)

[@eliiaha]

​@@Theory-Yhow to remove hands only on the second slot without using yttrium?

[@owenblount7334]

@@Theory-Yit’s faster healing helps keep the whole team topped up almost as good as the crossbow so I can use the blutsauger to defend myself because I’m a good enough medic for me to basically draw aggro like a undisguised spy in MvM that and I play the mobility classes a lot and the mirrored jumps and charges go hard

[@Inconspicuous-Gnome]

Definitely the most laid back medigun.

[@nex6370]

He has returned, medic mains rejoice

[@3meritetrinel50]

As a medic main, KILL ME (now everyone knows that my fav choice is good and will trash me for not using it)

[@Bulldozer0330]

when i read this, i thought i clicked on an arrayseven video.

[@EMan-xj5cz]

@@Bulldozer0330same

[@GameFreak64101]

Where?

[@xeanderman6688]

​@@3meritetrinel50later

[@tyrusing]

Is Quick-Fix the best medigun? No. Do I enjoy using it? Yes. Do I get my Soldiers and Demos to launch me towards the enemy team for some funny moments? Hell yeah.

[@iflyplanesthrutunnels]

I need to see a clip of that

[@johnnyrakugakichnotachyet5307]

​@@iflyplanesthrutunnelskzbin.info/www/bejne/roqskIerjd6FkLMsi=s54TTRYjWnJ1tibP

[@lucafruttarol287]

​​@@iflyplanesthrutunnelssoundsmith uploaded 2 weeks ago a video in which he uses the quick fix combo with a demoman. It's really good

[@dawid2787]

Market gardening as medic is epic but rare

[@skinwalker69420]

This usually happens to me nonconsensually, with demoknights launching me towards the enemy while they run away from them.

[@tekt_real]

As a person with 600+ hours on medic and recently gathered 5000 kills on the different syringe guns. I play medic to *heal* others (nice to differentiate between giving buffs and healing!), then shoot the bad guys, then uber. Thus I almost permanently run quick-fix. Playing with it makes dying less impactful so I don't feel as bad doing it :) And I'm not a moron "battle medic", that's a stupid term from Big Crossbow to make syringe guns look worse! You make absolutely amazing points. If you are not the only medic in the team, it's really safe to run the quick-fix. You leave the buffing and ubering to the "main" medic and then you can heal guys up (including pocketing the other medic when needed) and screw around doing stupid stuff like flying in with your soldier. It's really great. Switching to stock after a while of quick-fix is a bit disorienting as well. I often find myself getting killed before I have uber and when I do, I pop way too early or in a bad spot. But one thing I overall disagree with your views is that you play perma crossbow. You play at a distance where you can run away. If you switched to a syringe gun (you said you do but I don't think I saw any clips of that) you could get a lot closer to the enemy and finish off some guys your healing target is struggling with. (Also the enemy NEVER sees it coming when you needle them) Getting used to that type of feeding, erm, I mean, strategy takes time though. So you quickly heal your attacking teammate(s) up, then assist in the killing, then heal again. Very generalized explanation but you get it. You can't get enough damage output with a crossbow to help. But also I cannot understate how crisp those arrows you land are, DAMN! Saying it's a medi gun for beginners is also kind of poor as well. At times when your team is clueless but you feel like medic, stock is not going to do anything when your team won't push no matter how invincible they are. Also you can stomp as a medic if you heal a jetpack pyro while they do the hop. That gives you it for that life and you can even switch medi gun. (sticky jump into the sky with your demo and 1 hit snipers)

[@chrysanthemumu3u]

One thing that should be mentioned about the quick-fix is that afterburn's ability to decrease healing DOES affect the mega heal, so it can just cut your healing heavily if a pyro comes at you and your pocket, it really sucks.

[@gibbous_silver]

now imagine if the quick-fix had a stat that made it resist/immune to the afterburn healing reduction

[@chrysanthemumu3u]

@@gibbous_silver I think immunity to afterburns anti-heal effect would be fine during its uber, healing someone already cuts the afterburn timer so its fair enough if the pyro isnt spraying you and your target directly

[@phucgiang395]

I actually find quickfix able to counter pyro The megaheal can let you survive pyro's flamethrower and completely invalidates his airblast

[@owenblount7334]

It’s part of why I use the blutsauger with it but that’s also because if I’m using the quickfix I’m either pocketing a good demo or soldier that can survive and move so as long as I live we’re good or my team is so trash I need uber and I need it now

[@cheezkid2689]

Yeah, that's maybe the dumbest stat they've ever added to TF2. Just mindlessly throwing things at Pyro that make him less fun to play against yet doesn't actually adress the issue that Pyro is a fundamentally poorly-designed class that needs a lot of work to make him able to compete with other classes whilst also not being extremely obnoxious to fight against.

[@uraccountcrashed8845]

18:34 Finally someone said this. Since nobody plays Medic, nobody thinks an Ubercharge is anything but what it appears to be at face value. I get people who run in ALL THE TIME and then complain like it's the Quick-Fix's fault for not having a good enough Uber to carry them along.

[@fractalisomega9517]

It definitely needs some sort of big graphical difference from the Stock Uber which can alert the patient as to what they're healed with In fact having that info on the HUD for all Mediguns would be nice.... perhaps a vignette with little Medic crosses for the QF Uber too

[@Skinned_fried_n_cut_up_potato]

Had that happen more often with the Kritkreeg but yes same with the quick fix

[@butteredbitties]

i named my QuickFix "No, you're not invincible"

[@Maxi-Gonz.]

That's why that Über is NOT for pushing. It's an answer to heavy damage or if various teammates are low.

[@Maxi-Gonz.]

​​@@fractalisomega9517All Mediguns (except Kritzkrieg) have a unique backpacks for the Medic and unique sounds when the heal beams connect to teammates. Not only that, but you can also see in a bar below the crosshair the Medic's name, his health, the name of the item the he's carrying and how much Über percentage the Medic has.

[@BlueBird1994_]

Dayum, the fabled Quick Fix video is finally a real thing, after an eternity. I'm still maining it no matter what 😂

[@Theory-Y]

It's fun for sure

[@CastCreator]

time to berate you for not 100% agreeing with a youtuber i enjoy watching even though i somewhat share your opinion!

[@TJ-hg6op]

I feel like a cool way to buff the quick fix is to make it so the uber doesn’t drain faster when switching between teammates. This would allow the medic to top off his team during a push without losing all the uber in 1 second.

[@redline841]

He did propose that in a way to buff the thing. However it will need some nerfs to keep it from being OP

[@TJ-hg6op]

@@redline841 Oh thats cool, I’m just one of those idiots who make comments before completely watching the video.

[@SnackPatrol]

I was today year's old when I found out the Ubercharge doesn't last as long when you switch teammates. I have been playing since the Beta in '07. I feel like an idiot.

[@angelfords2421]

yes

[@SurrogateActivities]

Always seen it as a defensive option, to keep your team from looking at the respawn timer. Especially when my team has a bunch of heavies. Or when there's already one non-quickfix medic

[@Lakilazur713]

Exactly

[@anthonyfarias5076]

It is a defensive option, its just that it sadly loses to all the other mediguns (except maybe kritz if you have horrible teammates and even then the extra overheal matters).

[@bluec9151]

I always saw it as an offensive option due to the “follow your target’s blast jump” thing.

[@eggroll5510]

Nice argument. Unfortunately, I am not a competitive player, and think that pocketing a sticky jumper demo to badwater red spawn is fun.

[@Theory-Y]

Understood. Have a nice day. 😂

[@AliceSandvich]

I do the same hauhahsushsu

[@funni_moksi69]

Flying along with a trolldier to enemy spawn and reconnecting the beam to a heavy to Uber them

[@Davtwan]

The psychological effects of the Mega Heal is definitely one of the weapon’s biggest pitfalls. :(

[@_M17_]

Theory-Y literally every day for the past year: "The Quick-Fix video is almost done"

[@CastCreator]

you're the only reason i have the courage to play Medic in pubs, keep up the great content!

[@JustAddVanilla]

Was starting to worry medic 101 was done for bro, welcome back 😮‍💨

[@relaxation_and_tax_evasion]

My favorite thing about your channel is how indepth and objective you try to be. Super helpful and enjoyable to watch

[@Theory-Y]

Yeah, I try to be as real as I can. Based on my own experience of course.

[@lilhunter6417]

I like using the Quick-Fix on defend in chaotic maps like Dustbowl. Getting low on health is ineviteble so having something to top-off like 5-7 players is so nice.

[@Casual_PKBeats]

Loved seeing the hard data, as much as I love Quick Fix, I can't do anything but agree with your point here. I think the reason why I love to default to the Quick Fix is because I like to play "secondary Medic" a lot. When a team already has a stock Medic, and my job is to keep everyone alive and happy. Still perhaps not as good, but it's at least more relaxing. Though, I should probably just use stock way more often anyways LOL

[@lagmanrealtrustme]

I do the same exact thing, cool to see a fellow secondary medic

[@victorrosenheart8036]

When I had this one game where I was the second medic, and other guy was running stock. He was disappointed I was running Quick-Fix at first. Then I proceed to top score with 42 points that I never died with and kept him going. He was speechless XD So that is my one great moment of that gun

[@retagainez]

Often times, I will top frag with quick fix because it places you in more positions to get easy kills against people who can die easily to a melee crit. More kills means more uber with the uber saw, meaning more crits.

[@SPOOPINATURAL]

holy shit he finished it

[@li___ek]

Honestly, I just love the way the Quick-fix affects medic's mobility and that's why it's my used medi-gun.

[@DFlaminberry]

This. Playing with a friend and coordinating jumps with them is awesome.

[@MrMachine540]

I never watched you before, your channel randomly got recommended to me, KZbin finally gave me an blessed recommend.

[@fauxparadox]

Quick fix is a god when solo medic in pubs though. Being able to keep a team alive after they take a crocket and then after their Uber is done you Uber and push 3-4 power classes into them. Spamming Ubers feels so good

[@Danodan94]

I remember one game I had recently. It was on Mountain Lab defence. We had been pushed to our last point. I was playing engi and I had the upstairs locked down with teleporter access and a sentry gun in the rafters looking over the point. A Blu soldier medic combo popped a Quick Fix uber walked onto the point from downstairs hallway and won the game because our 2 pyros couldn't airblast them and my sentry couldn't dps them because it ate Direct Hit rockets. I remember being thoroughly impressed. If it was any other medigun it would have been shut down, but because Quick Fix denies mobility hinders *and* it can cap while ubered, they won the game. That said, I know this is kind of niche but I want to point it out that Quick Fix has a really strong clutch factor when there is a quickly capturable last point or payload that is guarded. You can just walk on it with a pocket and win.

[@Danodan94]

Okay, so I looked again at the video, and you say that the quick fix can't cap or block while megaheal is active. I no longer understand what I saw on the mountainlab game. I swear there was only 2 enemies on the point. I'm kinda befuddled.

[@MihanTheNoob]

Quickfix is a perfect medigun for new and non-main medics. Stock only outperforms quickfix if its in a medic-main hands

[@Quickstein]

I find that it's also an excellent Medigun to use as a second medic supporting the main medic using stock. The issues with survivability are mitigated by buffs from the main medic, and your team finds themselves closer to full health or buffed more often. But then again, a pair of coordinating medics is already a massive boon to the team. Also, a little-known fact about the Quick-Fix, it can keep a patient at the normal max overheal if another Medigun buffs them first.

[@nigeladams8321]

It only outperforms the quick fix if Uber is what decides the game. In casual healing feels much more important than pocketing a person and ubering

[@sergeychistov8162]

I agree! I wanted this medigun since I had 4 hours in playtime. Too bad I had a bad luck in random drops. With this much experience as I have now, The Quick-fix is a downgrade for me.

[@mitchellsidebottom9271]

@@Quickstein >Also, a little-known fact about the Quick-Fix, it can keep a patient at the normal max overheal if another Medigun buffs them first. Real shit? That's awesome.

[@DFlaminberry]

I more or less main medic and if I'm playing with friends I tend to use the quick fix because I like going along for the rocket/sticky jumps.

[@BaZinga-y6l]

I think the Quick-Fix would be hugely impacted by just a tiny buff to its draw/holster speed. Besides being thematic, it's perfectly in line with the more proactive play style the weapon seemingly encourages, and helps you defend yourself a little better, aiding in the intent of the Quick-Fix being better for games where you're being poorly protected

[@SnivyTries]

Honestly, quick-fix makes a huge difference when you can put people above the point where the next hit would have killed them. The QF SHINES when your whole team is hovering around 25% health, and the heal rate is what stops everyone from dying to the next bodyshot or rocket. It doesn't benefit from a "stats" analysis when the impact of it is primarily seen in the match...

[@Theory-Y]

Crossbow lets you heal up players even faster in most situations. And anything benefits from a win rate analysis imo.

[@tailez606]

Quick-fix feels like a perfect medigun for a team that has 2 medics, where one medic is a pretty much dedicated pocket medic to a power class, using one of the more versatile mediguns, playing it safer and sticking closer to the back; and the other medic being the front-line medic, topping up all the other players, quickly repositioning across the battlefield via the fast movement options afforded to him by the classes he's healing.

[@ESALTEREGO]

I think an interesting way to balance quick fix would be to give it two way healing, so whenever you heal someone you also get the same healing overheal (maybe at a reduced rate). Thus making the weapon more distinct from other mediguns and solidifying the frontline healer role of the medic

[@GeneralJaydonius]

I have always encouraged (and practiced myself) that the Quick Fix is a SECONDARY medic's best weapon. If 1 medic is already running Kritz / Uber and prioritizes the big pushers, then you should use the Quick Fix to keep THOSE medics alive, and everyone else at *least* at full health. This is the best performance for me, and of course, if you're the sole medic in your team, this is not the medigun to use.

[@shinobuoshino5066]

If I am the only medic in my team I will use quickfix out of spite for everyone who refuses to take a second medic, if there's another medic I will use stock because quickfix's faster healing is not as relevant when there's several medics and overheal is too strong. And I will only ever use quickfix uber when multiple people are low on health to quickly fix them ever faster, anyone who thinks they got it to charge in and die is not my problem.

[@InternetMonster1]

I love the Quick Fix on Payload defense where I am the only medic. That specific situation is where I believe the weapon is at its best.

[@BirdRaiserE]

Me in casual, with the team I convinced to all go either demo, soldier or scout for the lolz: "sounds like a skill issue"

[@I3457_]

27:03 I think mirror jump should be a down side it's would be upside for kritzkrieg but not for quick fix

[@Squidperson26]

The biggest weakness of the quick fix is that people use it alone.It’s inability to give quality buffs is negated by having a stock or Kritz on your team.Sometimes it even results in overhealing your whole team faster.

[@undefind3426]

Quick Fix is literally my main choice everytime I join a pub game with less than 7 players because I know it’ll do very well since it gets my team back into the fight quicker

[@free4fire]

I think the quick fix also shines with teams that have very little coordination, it's a lot more forgiving due to it's cheap über and having to heal a large group in the middle of a chaotic fight, and since you wont get overheals while being in teamfight anyway, being able to quickly bring everyone back up and most likely even throw out an über that's shared among the team is also a nice way to just keep the momentum going (again for unorganized teams, if everyone knows what they're doing then stock or kritz are the better options). And that goes even more so for when you're the second medic, since it allows for the other medic who runs stock to hang back a bit and build the über that we're actually gonna use for the push/counter, while I'm just making sure that we have enough sustain to stay in the fight for long enough (also for uncoordinated teams, otherwise running kritz is better imo). And no I will not use the Vaccinator under any circumstances, I hate that thing both to play with as well as to play against.

[@Jessie_Helms]

As a long time medic main, at least for casual, I hard disagree. Better mobility helps with your “limited sphere of influence”, better healing keeps players alive, and the Uber Heal Rate is plenty to keep you alive 90% of the time. And as Uncle Dane already said, it’s the best medigun bar none for when your team doesn’t know what to do with a normal Uber Charge or Kritz.

[@Bread-kun]

To me quick fix has alwyas felt great for a second medic on a team. If youre just solo the uber or kritz just gives such an insane benefit thats hard to ignore. But if you already have a medic who's capable of making those power plays (and generally will prioritize pocketing a power class), having a second guy who can keep an entire team up rapidly feels just generally really nice. Also it just feels better to use when youre playing from a losing position where you straight up just can not survice long enough to reliably get a single uber. Also rolling out with a soldier is just very fun too.

[@LobotomiteNugget]

I’ve got to tell you, the Quick-Fix, is one of my favorite items in all of TF2. While the stock medigun may be better in competitive, kritz might be the best in MvM, and vacc may be the best in terms of shutting down the enemy, there’s nothing like seeing those health numbers go up and up quickly. A stock Über, while better than quickfix’s, just doesn’t have as much oomph. Constant invulnerability means there’s no reason to be cautious, which is why people don’t like quickfix’s uber- there’s no risk. While you’re more than likely going to survive being ubered with a quickfix, it teaches the medic to be much more cautious- not to mention something about having an absurd amount of overhead just seems more impactful than straight up invulnerability.

[@Theory-Y]

It does hit the dopamine receptors!

[@Samagachi]

Quick-fix uber is great when juggling targets

[@StoryTeller796]

My idea in how Quick-Fix Medic is probably meant to be played is by probably weaving in and out of fights, which means that it's supposed to get behind enemy choke points with a few classes, then quickly mow down the opponents and end the fight quickly before the opponent outdamages the Quick Fix. If you can't kill everybody, cut your losses and run out of there as fast as you can.

[@yunqqpeanut1]

but theory! surely the extra 40% healing on quick-fix makes up for the lack of overheal when it comes to keeping your team more healthy overall!

[@Theory-Y]

Surely it does!

[@mitchellsidebottom9271]

You pretty much hit every nail on the head. My take has always been that the Quick-Fix is the worst medigun when you factor in the Medic playing at their peak skill level. Factoring in skill, Vacc is arguably the best, followed closely by or matching stock, then Kritz, and finally Quick-Fix lags behind; this is, of course assuming the Crusader's Crossbow is also being utilized (effectively) as a healing tool. That said, all the Mediguns are so damn good that calling the Quick Fix the worst medigun doesn't even make it bad or non-viable; in fact I've found the Quick-Fix dramatically scales up the smaller the teams are. If you're the only Medic on a 12 player team, it's best to roll stock and just overheal everyone when they're not in combat. On a balanced team with another Medic running another healing gun, the Quick-Fix has some merit as a rescue tool on the front line. You heal faster and it's not as devastating if you lose Uber due to getting killed early; in fact it's kind of fun to play a frontline Medic with Quick-Fix, Overdose, and Amputator, keeping your uber meter up as an escape tool due to the Overdose speed boost. Is it optimal? Eh, not really, but you're still doing your job of keeping health bars up. But ultimately, as you said people sleep on Overheal. I will die on the hill that Overheal is the strongest mechanic in the game; with max overheal you save every class from burst damage like a quickscope to the head or charged bodyshot, as well as saving the heavier classes from some crit-boosted attacks; in fact there's so many situations your teammates can survive due to overheal that would have killed them even if your Quick-Fix beam is on them. For players new to the game or to Medic, by all means use the Quick-Fix if you want to just play reactive and heal people who are taking damage. It's far, far better than having less Medics on a large team, but if you can land Crossbow heals, I highly recommend Stock or getting good with the Vaxxer. You'll really feel the difference being able to trigger pushes by Ubering people.

[@retagainez]

There's a low skill ceiling for healing with a medigun. Actually getting kills as a medic is the real skill ceiling that you can work towards.

[@Xero-Space]

I feel like this data driven look at it would work much better if it actually wasn't just you playing it. While the data is largely good on a surface level, there simply isnt enough data. With you being another constant the data will be skewed still as each medigun is going to be played at a time where just that one play believes it's optimal. I feel like we cant TRULY say its bad or good until we can actually get stats over a ton of games from a wide variety of players. My biggest takeaway for that is the QF vs Kritz. The point is that the Kritz is a "better" medigun despite the stats not really saying as such. Yeah it has about a 5% higher winrate compared to the QF but it was played less than galf the time and, as you said, was really only picked when you know it could be fat, whereas the QF was picked a lot more generally in comparison. While the Kritz IS situational and high risk high reward, your data would say that even in the situations it would be good you're better off picking something else. As all I can really do is see data here, I feel like if kritz was pucked far more generally and more often like the QF itd have a closer winrate.

[@Theory-Y]

Yes but if quick-fix was truly good it would be more generally good and have a solid win rate regardless of when I picked it. Kritz is obviously more situational but everyone already knew that, if I just ran kritz without a good pocket it would tank the win rate but that would fail to show how good kritz can be, which was the goal of this data. And the fact that I was able to maintain an 86% win rate with stock shows how generally good a medigun can be since I was picking stock when I felt like it wasn’t a good scenario any of the other 3. I acknowledge that the data is skewed by my own play style but since my play style seems to carry games and lead to a high win rate I think it’s an interesting look at each mediguns “carry potential” And 50 rounds is absolutely a large enough sample size where standard deviations are small enough for significant differences to be found. A larger data set would be better of course but it would likely show less of a disparity between stock and quick-fix not because there are actually closer together but because most players don’t know how to effectively carry with stock.

[@retagainez]

@@Theory-Y But how are you sure this isn't simply playing into your own confirmation bias by using this approach? It could be skill issue.

[@Theory-Y]

@@retagainez skill issue and 87% win rate with stock do not add up.

[@GeorgeCowsert]

I feel like any discussion of 6's should be ignored. TF2 is designed around 12v12, and the main reason 6's even exist is due to old lag concerns, difficulty in forming friend groups, and wanting to be more like Counterstrike. In 6's, Spy is a liability, Engineer is only viable on certain maps, Pyro is inconsequential, and Medic is absurdly more powerful for less effort. 12v12 forces teams to be more fluid, and players to be more specialized. The Quick Fix winds up being an amazing support tool meant to keep the entire team on their feet, and also needs to be used defensively. You are not going to make an absurd play with the quick fix. You are going to keep your team alive.

[@Cake-rj8sv]

About the quick fix tripple healing uber thing. From what I have experienced. It occurs when your patient took any kind of crit damage during the quick fix uber. It often happen when I uber a player who got hit by jarate/got headshotted. I have no way to test this in private so I am not sure if this is the actual reason.

[@relaxation_and_tax_evasion]

I have bugged you forever in regards to the quik fix lol. Thank you for making an in depth video on it so that maybe i can get it through my thick skull that it isnt as good as i think

[@Wafflemaker420]

Tf2 players are the only players who make videos with actual data that took more then 100 hours just to make a 5 minute point on a hat simulator game. Great video btw I totally agree with your video 👍

[@neutraldalek4222]

I always assumed Quick Fix was worse than stock but more reliable in the long run than Kritz. Really underestimated how crippling the overheal penalty was. Great video as always.

[@theresMadcows]

Theory-Y ends retirement; spotted greeting at Wal-Mart

[@SequelExmortus]

Started with these, ended up low adv. These guides are solid.

[@fallenking2719]

new players should play quick fix because they die way too often to use uber

[@flawlesshman8470]

Why not make the quick-fix like a Kiriko Ult from Overwatch like it increases the speed of all actions by 3X which would include movement, fire rate, heal rate, weapon swap speed, and reload this would come at the cost of getting rid of the knock back resistance and I would like it if scouts double jump would also influence the quick fix movement ability

[@pulledpork9778]

The quick-fix is my go-to for when I join a team of 10 or more players lacking gamesense with no other medic while I can observe the enemy team and medic(s) are competent. The increased build rate and high base healing means I can still keep teammates alive even if they decide to run in with

[@yournamehere8123]

I seriously appreciate the ammount of effort you put into the statistical part of the video. I have seen plenty of other people calling it a day after a few rounds with horrible standard deviation, but wow half a year worth of data is way more than i expected. Seriously well done!

[@razorvolare]

What if Quick-Fix also gave Medic the Amputator's Taunt-Heal Aura while Ubering? Would that be good enough to make it better?

[@idiotsamich1737]

Maybe, but probably not. A big part of the reason the other mediguns winrates are so much higher in his statistics is because only one or two good players are necessary to utterly annihilate the enemy team. One good invincible player is worth like mediocre ones being pocketed. The quickfix you propose would be a lot more reliant on having a competent and coordinated team, if you had one of those with any other medigun, you would've won anyways. It would better cement it as 'the teamfight' medigun, but it certainly wouldn't make it all that much better. If this proposed heal aura could overheal, then that might be something. It would partially negate this medigun's most crippling downside by giving the entire team pushing with you a small but continuously regenerating overheal. If your team pushes with you that could make a push seriously rivaling stock, considering you wouldn't have to use precious uber time flashing to have your team stay alive alongside your pocket Also: quickfix uber should be able to cap change my mind

[@idiotsamich1737]

10*

[@retagainez]

Ubersaw is the recommended melee when paired with quick fix. It jives really well with how durable it makes you. If you're not meleeing people with a saw, you're wasting the quick fix.

[@tessfairfield6435]

Regardless of its weaknesses, it will always be my favorite medigun

[@ibidysphoriaqueen]

I found that in disorganized pubs on open maps that the Uber is equally as useful since often they can't focus my pocket hard enough, but they still shoot us, so I'm taking away focus from my other teammates

[@HellishSpoon]

My man gonna give me hard data on why this gun is doo doo and than tell i can still use it if i want to, nah...my strange quick fix is going in a dumpster

[@FelipeJaquez]

If you trust random math from an already biased random youtuber then something is a miss. Don't let people force you to not use weapons you like but they don't. Who cares!

[@SurrogateActivities]

These clips are crazy man. Also good pick with the necrodancer ost

[@bebrasmachnayq5691]

I waited 4 thousands years, No.... 5 THOUSAND YEARS!

[@bringanotebook28]

Quick-Fixers stay losing, Mr. Y.

[@user-nu6zl6ct7w]

They are kritzkrieg bait actually LOL

[@Faber1203]

Thank You for doing this Video I also didnt understand why so many people think The Quickfix is so good and you said everything about The Quickfix That needs to be Said. Of course it can be usefull But Just Not as much as Stock.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

16:20 Considering how most complaints u mentioned are about blast jumping, would quick fix be allowed in 6s if blast jumping was removed from quick fix?

[@Theory-Y]

Possibly and it wouldn’t be annoying then

[@leafofyume]

yeah when i began to play medic and made my first plans and strings of logic, the quifix only rly sounded usefull to me as an assint since the other mediguns ares so much more solid and dont relie on situations. even if these situations are not rare in casual

[@kess_1]

theory,hi, I wanted to ask you if you could attach to google disk or pastebin, or somewhere else your game settings (custom, cfg) and send here a link . I'm asking you very much. I really like your customizations tf)

[@TheTrukach]

This is truly phenomenal. As a medmain with almost 1300 hrs for the class I'm more than impressed. Your channel is a gem, my man.

[@zhaiketoledo3658]

Medic mains now are happy instead of being insane

[@KeroTheInvincible]

Every time I think about what Medigun I want to use, I keep trying to think of a reason to use Quick Fix. But I can never find one.

[@KirioGameNote]

I love the quick fix, personally my favorite medigun. The downside of it being more dangerous makes it significantly more fun to me, encouraging a more active playstyle and more constant movement, as opposed to the more positional defensive playstyle the other mediguns feel to me. Definitely a “second medic” weapon I feel, helping top off everyone and let the primary medic pocket and fully buff select players

[@Kittyhat]

Quick fix seriously needs a buff to allow for blocking the cart/point, that clip where you lose because you popped uber is so stupid

[@Weldedhodag]

the way I see it, the Quick-fix is perfect for when you play medic when there already is a medic. The quick-fix lets you heal your team while the other medic is charging in with an uber or krits. The faster healing rate of the quick fix means the uber/krit medic doesn't have to worry about draining his uber faster to keep his team alive (flashing does make uber drain faster)

[@loafofuraniumfreshlybaked569]

I _really_ like the idea of giving this medigun longer über for effective healing during. Puts the enemy at an interesting choice of killing you quick at the risk of feeding into a rolling thunder of crit heals. Safer bet would be to pack up sentries and run like it's a normal über to deny the quickfix a long reign.

[@Theory-Y]

You should watch my buffing the quick fix vid.

[@loafofuraniumfreshlybaked569]

@@Theory-Y Yo! Dude! I'm a recent fan of yours! Awesome that you replied to my 2am ramblings! I'm a wretched quickfix main so I've almost definitely seen all your (non livestream) vids on the Fixy. Embarrassing that I didn't remember what you said in the video. You're sick man! Love you!

[@loafofuraniumfreshlybaked569]

@@Theory-Y Watched again, we agree on most. My wants were that the uber be potentially much longer, charge like the rest but 35% less time and mark the medic for death while blast mirrored.

[@yuanwang9324]

Damn, you really just put over half a year's worth of effort into this video just to say the Quick-Fix is underwhelming.

[@thatguybrody4819]

I use quickfix mainly because it seems to be the only one i can ever get uber with. And its uber is great for pushing sentries since you both get zero knockback so it doesn't get stuffed by knockback or a pyro blasting you or your target away. It does require more coordination to work reliably and the medigun itself forces you into danger but it's hell of a lot more fun than just sitting back healing just to get killed at 87% Though i do use it with the Amputator so i can maximise the healing i can output for each possible scenario.

[@Techhunter_Talon]

I have a fond memory of making a Heavy tank A LOT of incoming fire with this thing and the Crusader's Crossbow. He legitimately ran out of ammo before we retreated back into the 2fort sewers. XD

[@Oul362]

The quick-fix is the ultimate pocket medigun.

[@Theory-Y]

It is though?

[@kasserole738]

Me and my friend like to exist behind the enemy team as a scout and medic duo and in those situations where you can't spread heals the boosted build rate and knockback immunity helps with not getting pinned down in one spot. The building rate is a bug though so if valve strikes that down from the heavens then it kinda looses that niche as a great pocket medigun

[@willeddy8775]

??? The vaccinator is in the game

[@nigeladams8321]

Disagree, it's the ultimate medigun for a medic who doesn't pocket. You can use it to very quickly bring a nearly wiped out team to full health because of how fast it heals

[@LukieDukieNL]

Fully agreed that the Quick-Fix is the overall weakest medigun. Not useless or unusable, but definitely the weakest. One other aspect I don't see many people talking about is how the existence of the crossbow is indirectly a nerf to the Quick-Fix. Faster healing on a medigun just isn't as impactful when you already have a busted primairy weapon to help with that. It's kinda the same with the Amputator, I think that weapon would also see a lot more use if the Crossbow didn't exist.

[@HeroRareheart]

The point you make at 6:50 explains why I always seem to play far more aggressive when i have the quick-fix equipped. Edit: I find the best way to use the quick fix in a pub is when I have another medic using something else.

[@Just_a_Dragon69]

I think the real thing here is that quick-fix is a humble medigun, while the other 3 mediguns are too powerful Is like saying that every single seringe gun is the worst medic weapon, just because the crossbow exist But is just my opinión, i also agree whit everything on the video 👍 PS: 24:29 Valve ¿what why?

[@samuelskinny]

My quick fix god moments come from teams that dont have that one good push player. The one that can really make use of an uber or crits. Usually this requires the whole team to push and the quick fix excels in that moment because i can heal everyone so fast with the uber If you pop quick fix uber and only keep it on 1 or two people, you are not using it to its full potential, i usually will heal 4 people during a push or hold and it can stomp if done right. You cant treat it like any other medi gun

[@mariustan9275]

I haven't seen you in a while Y. Thanks for all the suggestions on Medic rebalancing. I think that your balance suggestions are some of the best I've seen for tf2. Question: if you had to design a Medic secondary that wasn't a medigun (let's make this interesting) what would it look like and what would it do?

[@tflcn]

Ive played 2k hours, 200 on med. It is the first time i realized that you can pick up dropped medguns with their remaining charge...

[@wtzhangwtzhang9439]

quick-fix is overall not so great if the other team has classes that can deal massive burst damage, namely snipers, demoknights and kritzkrieg medic ubering soldiers/demos. The megaheal is great for countering sustained DPS but against burst DPS, it falls apart since you and your patient still have the decreased overheal and a high burst damage source will just outright kill you regardless how fast your heal rate is

[@mr.jackstone9256]

While yes, i do see how the other positives are helpfull, i cannot STAND using any other medi gun, i feel like with any other gun i am stuck at someone's ass for a hour trying to get them topped up, it feels so sluggish and shitty when people keep dying around me as i am trying to get one person healed when i know for a fact i could at least have had most at fighting shape during the time i am trying to get ONE in ok condition

[@danglars]

I just like running Quick-Fix to make the phlog even more cancer.

[@heroman1322]

The smaller the team, the better quick fix is imo. Stock is my main, but I love QF for pubs or being an off-healer in a larger game!

[@Googolplexed]

I love the Quick-Fix. Stock is definitely go-to if I’m the only medic, but the moment another appears I switch. There’s something so fun about being the frontline healer during the fast-paced skirmishes while the stock medic hangs back to build Uber safely. Then he rushes forward to pop and I fall back to rejuvenate the backline and inevitably save the few soldiers who stayed too deep after the push ended. There’s just nothing else like it. I love the Quick-Fix.

[@D1AntOnly]

wake up babe new theory-y upload

[@Connorses]

2 things I like about it: - Feels good when there's too many players to heal and you want a quick fix. - You could run right past sentries without being knocked back and score a free goal in PASS Time. You know... That elaborate gamemode with the super smart map design that nobody plays? Yeah.

[@Saxxy_Mann]

When we needed him most…he returned. Happy yolidays

[@nigeladams8321]

I love the quick fix. And casual there's rarely a need for a true Uber, this isn't competitive we're not counting how many seconds it's been since the enemy team popped theirs. It lets me quickly heal as many people as possible, which is great because I don't typically pocket people. I can spread out as much healing as I possibly can, and I can rocket jump

[@Ratchetpower2]

When you talked about Megaheal giving players too much courage it reminded me of one match I had while using the Quickfix. I popped my megaheal on someone who then ran in trying to tank a whole bunch of damage then dying, then that player got on the mic and said "I thought you had Stock Uber, I wouldn't have pushed in if I realized you were using Quickfix." I switched to stock after he said that.

[@thepurityofchaos]

There's one very specific value to the Quick Fix that I find is rarely, if ever talked about in these sorts of videos. The Quick-Fix's Uber effects last beyond its duration. Imagine you're a medic on 20 HP and you pop QF vs Uber, then take some damage (75) near the end of the Uber but not at the end in both cases, then some more damage (50) when both Ubers end- a relatively common occurence, though not necessarily with those exact values. QF: 20 -> 188 -> 113 -> (heal back) 188 -> 138 Stock: 20 -> 40 (natural regen) -> 40 -> 48 (natural regen) -> dead

[@thekingofyellow5811]

He finally made the video

[@Theory-Y]

I started this back in newcomer LMAO

[@StoryTeller796]

I do have an idea for a new Medigun. One with an Uber that restores ammo by increasing the firing rate of the Medigun as it releases ammo packs. It needs to be aimed at its teammates with the ammo packs when it ubers, and when it's just the stock healing, it needs to aim its health packs. The level of packs it fires depend on the amount of Uber it has, 25% and below is small packs, above that and towards 89% percent is medium packs, and above 90% is large packs. It fires in intervals of about 5 seconds apart, they can only be picked up by enemy players 9 seconds after they land on the ground, and even then force them into a random taunt between their laugh taunt, their fear taunt, and a Pyroland wonder taunt (Pyro won't have this taunt). I mean, these last 2 effects don't have to be in the weapon, but it would make for a nice Santa Heavy counterpart. Heck, make this effect work on Ubered opponents, and it would really complete the set.

[@ruzgar1372]

4:53 YOU CAN DO THAT?

[@LVJYnepeta]

Honestly I think the 4 best buffs for the quick fix (and you could pick any combo of them, and it would help) -increase how long it takes for the overheal to wear off, to make it the same amount of time as stock -remove the flash penalty on the uber -give either a resistance to fires healing penalty, a crit resist, or a combo of both to the uber

[@danielsurvivor1372]

Isnt this a reupload? Swear u already did quick fix review xD. Anyway good video lad, I remember u commented on tf2 jubilee parody odds one out where 6 medics have to find 1 fake medic aka engy. Would be fun if u could do your version of that parody with your med pals vs fake med xD

[@Theory-Y]

Had to add on a few things an streamline it with better editing. Will do the same with vaccinator now.

[@bluecube9515]

I use the quick fix when I play medic because it fits the idea of just healing your teammates efficiently rather than stacking kills, and I play medic to heal and for no other reasons. It’s also why I use the amputator for group healing and the overdose to reach my teammates faster.

[@zpydd_]

woah, i also use that loadout on medic mainly