#1 Everyone except medics hate
#2 Medics hate
#3 Everyone hates
#4 Everyone hates
#5 Middies hate
1. People think they can play medic better than medic mains. They can't even if the player is a meme like Condawg. I have never seen a non-medic main outperform a medic main even if they "know" how to play medic better. For some unknown reason, they are still worse!!! Even if the medic player is a bad player too!
2. All medics suck from all points in time except Raymon, and Shade when playing with B4nny. Shade without B4nny is weak though.
To determine this I've probably watched more medic demos than anyone else alive from raymon, phorofor, ninjanick, shade, condawg, seeds (lotta seeds and condawg and phorofor), dave, cookiejake, permzilla, kos, mirelin, bulle, harbleu (not always on medic tho), turbo, honeybadger, bear, vani, virgil, lolguy, n*rsey and myself. Altogether about 250 demos of just OTHER medics (120-130 hours spent properly watching others, and another 10 just myself).
Raymon is the only "good" medic the game has ever seen. Shade was good but only with b4nny. The reason is because raymon knew what his whole team was thinking without them having to say and shade knew what only b4nny (and perhaps blaze and clockwork) were thinking without having to say. The problem is ofc that shade didnt know what the other members of his team were thinking whereas raymon did. Noone now a days is either smart enough or spends enough time talking to their team about what they want to do to actually get good in the same crucical way.
3. Kinda self fulfilling prophecy. Getting good at medic is an impossibility now because rosters keep swapping too often. Medics go to better teams, or they get cut for not being good enough. It's the only role that needs time to synergise with all 5 members in every way instead of 1-2 others in specific ways to actually improve. Ofc there are ways to cheat it, like by playing medic in the same way every game (seeds) or by maincalling as a medic to force people to play with you (myself).
4. If you want to play the game better and improve your understanding, then play every role. As a flank player and combo player, knowing your medics weakness and where they like to play is so good as the other medic is likely the same as your own. It helps gets forces and it helps to prevent them too. TF2 is built around uber and spam, so by learning to spam properly and play defensive at the same time it's such an incredible advantage. By playing every role you increase game knowledge by an incredible amount and can easily abuse worse opponents.
5. This post mostly just correlates to players at a high level. So anyone below that should focus on the basic basics first and then worry about what I've put. No excuse for any middies to use this as a cope post by a supposed higher level player cus I also suck.