Sapper

Sapper
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Basic Information
Used by	Spy
Slot	Sapper
Loadout Stats
Sapper Sapper Disables enemy buildings and drains their health, without removing your disguise "Who left that there?"

The Sapper is the only sapper for the Spy. It is a boxy "electro-sapper" device that resembles a radio, with two switches, a dial, and a meter of unknown measurement on the front, with a carrying handle and two thick wires with electrical jacks. The needle on the meter will move to the right when in front of a targetable building.

The Sapper is a unique weapon that is used to disable and destroy enemy buildings. It has no other purpose, and cannot be used on organic enemies. When in range of an enemy building that can be sapped, a white outline appears. Placing the sapper does not remove the Spy's disguise, and it has infinite ammo with practically no cooldown. While a building is sapped, it is totally disabled and does not function, with the Sapper dealing 25 damage per second to it, creating a loud and conspicuous electrical sound that alerts all nearby enemies to the Spy's presence. If one Teleporter is sapped, the other is automatically sapped as well, and destroying one Sapper destroys the other. When the Spy attacks a sapped Sentry Gun, his weapons deal 0.33x as much damage as usual.

It will also alert the Engineer who owns the building, with a flashing symbol on his construction interface and an automatic voice response. When the Sapper brings the building's health down to 0, it will explode as usual. The Engineer's Wrench can remove the Sapper from any building by hitting the building twice, preventing the building from being repaired, with continual replacement of the Sapper causing the building to eventually be destroyed. Sapper health and sapped building health of the first Sapper placed will also be marked on the Spy's interface. Sentry Guns are still disabled for 0.5 seconds after the Sapper is destroyed.

Properties

Properties
Damage
Base damage	100%	25 / s
Status Effects
Effect		Disable
Effect duration		3.6 s 6 s 7.2 s 8.64 s
Function Times
Attack interval		Infinite
Activation time		Instant
All values are approximate.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Bulgarian	Саботьор	Sapper
Spanish	Zapador	Sapper
English	Sapper	-
French	Saboteur	Sapper
German	Sapper	-
Italian	Sabotatore	Sapper
Brazilian Portuguese	Sabotador	Sapper
Romanian	Sapper	-
Russian	Жучок	Bug

Trivia

• Team Fortress 2 Classic's Sapper has updated animations that include the Spy flipping a switch on the device as he pulls it out.