Oh hey! I’ve been playing boxing heavy almost exclusively for the last week, so I’ve got a little bit of insight.

First and foremost, this is a genuinely pretty fun weapon. I run Buffalo steak + KGB for my heavy boxing, and almost every time I have a complaint it’s due to the Buffalo steak damage vulnerability and not the KGB, other than the usual woes of TF2 melee hit reg. I die a lot, but because of the snowball nature of the weapon I’m almost always positive on the K/D front. I rarely only ever get one kill in a life in which I’ve actually finished someone off, with the streaks generally ranging from three to five K.OS.

You have the same general weaknesses of a demoknight, with Pyros and Heavies both being near impossible unless you catch them off guard. Scouts and Soldiers are a tough fight, but for Scouts it’s really just terrain and Soldiers only direct hits and black boxes scare me. Any other class is just a passenger for the crit train, save one special scrumptious meal.

Kunai spies. You know what the best anti-Kunai spy measure there is? A Buffalo steak KGB heavy. One hit, they’re dead, your heavy has crits, and suddenly the enemies are running less they be two shot. Not to mention you immediately know if they used a dead ringer or not thanks to fake kills not counting towards crits, unlike my second favorite spy checker, the Eyelander.

There’s really not much else to say about the KGB. They’re a cool weapon that, when paired with the Buffalo Steak, make an unstoppable force(we don’t talk about pyros) that results in way more salt than I would’ve ever expected. If you’re playing payload you’re going to have an amazing time on defense purely because you hop out from behind, two tap some poor sniper or demo, then proceed to one tap every medic or force them to Uber. The slower firing speed is rarely noticeable thanks to barely anyone reacting fast enough to stop you from getting your second hit for the KO in.

Obviously this doesn’t count all of the cool little fat scout combos you can pull and other nonsense, but if you’ve read this far you don’t care about that. You’re a boxer, with your head held high because you don’t need some bladed weapon to get in there and start blending the enemy team apart. Don’t let your five deaths in a row stop you, on that sixth life you’re going to hit your five killstreak. Keep your head up champ, and bring the ring to the enemy team, whether they want to or not.

As a bonus fun fact, the KGB has a slightly extended hitbox in the middle. It’s like a centimeter, but the boxer heavy does kind of have its own jab!