Grenade Launcher

Grenade Launcher
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Basic Information
Used by	Demoman
Slot	Primary
Ammo
Ammo loaded	4
Ammo carried	16
Loadout Stats
Grenade Launcher Grenade Launcher "Leave it to me, lad."

The Grenade Launcher is the default primary weapon of the Demoman. It is a cartoony grenade launcher with an oversized six-slot ammo chamber, held with its wooden stock and foregrip, that shoots glowing team-colored explosive canisters. Despite having six barrels on its model, the Grenade Launcher only loads four grenades at a time.

The Grenade Launcher fires fast grenades, also known as "pipe bombs", that arc in the air and explode on contact with enemies and their buildings, dealing 100 damage against that enemy at any range, plus splash damage against any enemy nearby. If the grenade hits a surface, it will not explode on contact, instead bouncing and rolling on the ground until it naturally explodes. All grenades will explode after 2.3 seconds, even if they are soaring through the air, only dealing 60 base damage. As a consequence, grenades can be shot off map surfaces to bounce them into enemy positions, and they will still act as area denial even if the user is unable to directly hit an enemy. This makes the grenade launcher a powerful, though difficult-to-use weapon in direct combat, and one of the few weapons able to act as a threat even during indirect combat. The grenades will have significantly less velocity when shot underwater.

Because the user takes damage and knockback from their own grenade explosions, they are able to use them as an explosive jump to reach heights otherwise unobtainable. This offers less control and velocity than a similar jump from the Stickybomb Launcher.

Properties

Properties
Shot type		Projectile
Damage type		Explosive
Ranged or Melee?		Ranged
Taunt		Kaboom
Damage
Base damage	100%	100 60
Critical		300 180
Mini-crit		135 81
Bullet count		1
Splash
Minimum splash	50%	146 HU
Damage reduction		1% / 2.88 HU
Self-damage		38-73
Ammo
Loaded		4
Carried		16
Reload type		Single
Function Times
Attack interval		0.6 s 2.3 s
First reload		1.24 s
Further reloads		0.6 s
All values are approximate.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Bulgarian	Гранатомет	Grenade Launcher
Spanish	Lanzagranadas	Grenade Launcher
English	Grenade Launcher	-
French	Lance-grenades	Grenade Launcher
German	Granatwerfer	Grenade Launcher
Italian	Lanciagranate	Grenade Launcher
Brazilian Portuguese	Lança-granadas	Grenade Launcher
Romanian	Lansator de grenade	Grenade Launcher
Russian	Гранатомёт	Grenade Launcher

Trivia

• In Team Fortress 2 Classic, the Grenade Launcher's cylinder has been updated to only have space for four grenades, in the original Team Fortress 2 the cylinder has enough space to fit six grenades yet Demoman only loads 4, this is because the Grenade Launcher's clip size was cut down post release to only hold four for balance purposes.