[bskll]

Obviously it isn't for every single situation, but most of the pyro community complaints seem to revolve around "I can't kill X class as easily now", when the reality of the situation is that they tried to burn a shield demo to death, or tried to burn a heavy to death, or tried to burn a medic to death and were beat down by the needles.

I've seen probably less than 10 pyros in the history of playing this game that regularly used the axetinguisher when it would've been an advantage to do so.

When I am playing and a pyro tries to W1 me and he dies while I live, I even take the time to tell him in chat that if he had used the axetinguisher it would've killed me. And then 99.9% of the time he goes and runs into a heavy holding down the flame button.

You are right that pyro is useful as a class to rush in and clear things out, but even in that situation the axetinguisher can possibly be better than the flamethrower. How many times have you seen a pyro get ubered, only to hold down the flamethrower against a single target, then the uber expires, the pyro bites the dust, and he didn't accomplish anything? Obviously when an sg is around or people are stacked right on top of each other fire is preferable, but the axe has a lot of uses and it is a shame that pyros are too lazy or unaware to use it, and simply cry about it when they percieve a nerf to their flamethrower.

axetinguisher is useless when 80-90% of map spaces do not have a wall against which to airblast and axe.