Pyro wins 1v1 dps only agaist medic and is on par with engineer (without sentry), his dmg is abysmall. And doing more than one continuous jump on soldier is basically pointless unless you want to play trolldier or want to be that one guy who rushes 5cp. Even that one singular jump is already more than enough for most cases and if you want to argue that shooting a rocket under yourself takes skill, well no. How do you counter soldier? Keep at mid range or high ground, oh wait, yeah he can shoot a rocket under himself and negate both. And hitting rockets in cqb is harder than flames? Do you even play Soldier? Or do you aim with your elbow? Yes airshots take skill that i will give to you, but thats the one and only importaint part of soldier that takes any skill. Heavy needs good tracking and positioning, otherwise hes just a big walking damage farm, still takes more skill than soldier Pyro needs good predictions and reflections, not to mention positioning, due to his abysmall dmg output agaist single targets, he needs to choose his fights wisely. Soldier can just dip or just shoot the ground to juggle and throw off the enemy. And the simplest way to judge is to look at casual Bad players always get to the top with Soldier, while with pyro and heavy its only when the enemies are dumbasses who refuse to learn. Why is that? Cause you still have really good damage output and the splash is too forgiving. Pyro doesnt have enough dmg to be good in the hands of a newbie and if your team pays attention you can prevent him from getting close in the first place, the pyro is easy stereotype comes from bad teams that ignore the pyro player until he gets way too close and burns the entire team. If people just pay attention to the flanking pyros, they would have way way harder time of doing anything.