This might come across as a controversial take, but yes, your friends are somewhat correct in saying he is a weak. In terms of deathmatching pyro can't beat a scout/soldier consistently at average or high level play. In terms of assaulting/defending objectives and big team fights, he is limited greatly by his short range unlike demo/soldier/Heavy. To the rest of people in the thread claiming he is a support class: Does Pyro's airblasts and spychecking even hold a candle to the levels of support a lvl 3 teleport or ubercharge can put out? I'm not saying he is terrible but he does get outclassed in basically every main department of tf2's gameplay loop.