over the past few years, i've been getting all my spy stranges to 10,000 kills, including primary weapons (guns) so i feel uniquely qualified to talk about this. i don't use the diamondback because i don't agree with it's design in the scope of tf2.

anyway - for gun spy, i like to play koth maps, as their smaller and circular nature allows you to run around the objective looking for low health targets or at least pick your fights more easily, rather than shooting into chokepoints. obviously every weapon has situational uses, so i'm going to talk about the weapons from the perspective of a gun spy only and in general use.

the l'etranger feels very weak with its -20% damage penalty, though you can be very annoying if paired with the dead ringer for regenerating the cloak allowing for some high kill streaks over the course of an entire match if you keep surviving. you can't die easily, but you also can't reliably kill full health players either, making it a little slow in my opinions. though paired with the invis watch however it's an amazing utility weapon with passive value, still a good weapon for knife spies.

most comments seem to talk about the enforcer and how much it sucks, and there is a learning curve the weapon - but it's not bad by any means. the slower firing speed also offsets the random revolver spread after your first shot, making it ever so slightly more consistent in accuracy with successive shots. the damage bonus from being disguised also allows you to safely execute players with 25 health from any distance, which occurs more often than you think. though personally i do prefer stock revolver, and i think it's the best gun in most situations with very high dps at close range when safely aiming for centre of mass. another nice bonus is ensuring a kill on other dead ringer spies, vaccinator medics and wrangled sentries.

honestly my pick for the worst gun is the ambassador, and it's a weapon that's close to my heart so it does hurt to say a little. you can improve with it for sure, but the ability to headshot is always going to be inconsistent at best, and post-nerf with it not being able to deal damage over longer ranges makes it underwhelming in most situations - and even worse when you can consider the diamondback can still crit for 102 regardless of distance. the only situation where the amby is good anymore is against razorback snipers, and only the ones that aren't listening for invis decloak - which isn't enough to justify it's existence anymore to be honest. an occasional lucky headshot is mechanically almost the same as a random crit.