Engineer Surviving Ubers

[Eggers]

So I play a lot of TF2 event though I'm a relatively new player. I play Engineer A-LOT (Double my other class times). I have found that there is one key tip that can separate you from the other Engineers in help your team hold the point.

USE THE WRANGLER WHEN UBERS COME
Most Engineers I've seen want to just whack their sentry with a hammer from the very start but this normally always ends in the gun and you dead. The timing will take some practice but by pulling out the wrangler quickly just to get the shield and then healing your gun and repeating, the sentry becomes near invincible especially against classes like the Demo and Soldier who have to reload.

Use wrangler, be credit to team!

[One_Medic_Army]

Honestly, the gun can be put back up pretty fast, especially with help and/or a lvl 3 dispenser.

A Wrangled sentry may be harder to take down (8 stickies) but if you go down then the thing's still a sitting duck.
Dealing with ubers is highly situational and depends more on what's attacking and where your gun/other gear is than anything else.

[TheCarpe]

I love seeing Wrangled Sentries, because the Engineer presents a much squishier target and killing him makes the Sentry a snap to kill.

There's no one strategy. Sometimes sitting behind it with your wrench and tanking the Sentry is the best thing to do, especially if your team is doing as they should be and keeping them off you.

[The Spanish Inquisition]

I smash all my wrangler gear back into metal. The pistol is more important.

Beginner engineers have it so easy I don't see why they should complain or get frustrated with busted gear. You used to never even be able to pickup your equipment and move it much less invoke a magic force field around it.

[Eggers]

It's definently a timing thing. Like a said it's much easier to do it against a demo or soldier because by the time they reload the uber will be over. It's just something I've never really seen many people do. Like most thing in tf2 its entirely situational.

[Cpt._Keyes]

wrangled sentries are the best against demos...just shoot a rocket at the base of the sentry and LOL heartily as his stickies spread away

[crimsonshootingstar]

I walk up behind them with shotgun in hand when the uber goes down they take a hundred pellets of 00.

[ketchuo]

It depends on what the medic ubers.

Demo: Usually your gun will get destroyed.

Pyro: If its far away from the gun, then you dont need to worry. if the pyro is close then run for your life.

Heavy: pretty much same as pyro.

Soldier: If the soldier know what he is doing, then he'll target you first.

[Cpt._Keyes]

honestly wrangle rockets and gun at the demo bombs and u make him useless...i love facing demo ubers

[Rockn-Roll]

Another technique that I see engi's doing is letting the sentry battle away and draw all fire then pickup the dispenser and carry it away from the action...this works really good on enclosed capture points like dustbowl where the engi can make a fast gettaway. But, a wrangled sentry cannot stand against an ubber heavy if the heavy can drop down right in front of the sentry...heck I frequently take out sentries without an ubber at the last point on badwater just by dropping down from the map room with my gun already spinning...whether they are wrangled or not. And, it doesn't take 8 stickies...5 of them will do if they land right next to the sentry and are shot from far enough away...keep in mind that sticky bomb damage increases with distance.

[The Spanish Inquisition]

Another technique that I see engi's doing is letting the sentry battle away and draw all fire then pickup the dispenser and carry it away from the action...this works really good on enclosed capture points like dustbowl where the engi can make a fast gettaway.

I teach you that for dustbowl stage 1, second cap point. I only do this on defense points where there is hardly any metal around to build or too many engies working in the same area. Your dispenser is worth ten times any sentry when there is no metal naturally available on the map.

On that second cap point first stage dustbowl, there is only the one 40 ammo box for miles around. I usually pick up the dispenser and put it outside next to the ramp, only about ten feet away, and they never seem to blow it up. If I try to run further like around corner toward spawn, someone picks me off, better to pick up and drop it fast.

[Pine]

Use a wrangler and I'm just going to stab you. Easy as Pie.

[Clay Pigeon]

Quick switching tween the wrangler and the wrench and repairing your sg will drastically increase your nest's survival odds. And if you notice a demo piling up the stickies at the base of your sentry, fire a rocket straight down to scatter them.

Only combat engies should use the pistol. Pistol engies with regular sentry guns are not credit to team.

Also, please don't prebuild. A level 1 at the front is worth infinitely more to the team than a level 3 at spawn.

[The Spanish Inquisition]

Pistol engies with regular sentry guns are not credit to team.

I disagree, I get a lot of pistol kills with regular sentry. I noticed that stats don't track engie or scout pistols, what's up with that.

[Cpt._Keyes]

you shouldnt be getting pistol kills...a sentry's job is area denial...not kills...should be maintaining your equipment