What is TF2's Best Weapon Reskin?

Weaponry skins and TF2 have always seemed like a strange case to me on one hand if you like how a weapon works but hate how it looks it's nice to have another option to choose from but on the other hand not every reskin is necessarily better than the weapon it's replacing so sometimes there's no point in even using them okay sorry I couldn't resist starting a video like that yeah so with Weaponry skins becoming sort of a meme on my channel for some reason what better way to end the year than giving a comprehensive breakdown of all the reskins in the game and by that I mean just telling you which ones I think are the best because there's not really much to objectively break down that I have in another video already so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through every reskin in the game compare it to its counterpart and pick which version I think is better at the end I'll tally up how many times the reskins one versus the normal versions and that way we can definitively decide whether weapon reskins are better than stock as for how I'm going to handle War paints and festives and whatnot I'm lumping those under the normal weapon category instead of counting them as their own type of reskin you might think that would tip the balance in favor of the stock weapon significantly but trust me when I say they need all the help they can get and the last thing before I begin I feel the need to reiterate that this is just my opinion and the points are more for fun instead of being super serious I would still love to hear your opinions in the comments if you disagree but there's no reason to get mad at mine okay let's go starting off with Scout there are six free skins to look look at the Luger morph Capper mutated milk bench saber unarmed combat and three Rune blade are all functional Replacements to an otherwise identical weapon so let's start with the easy choices and work our way down unsurprisingly the bat saber is the clear-cut winner over the bat I mean come on it's a literal lightsaber why wouldn't you use this thing ah yeah that's why the main thing going against the bat saber is that it is dummy expensive quintupley so if you want a strange version but honestly I feel like you're getting what you pay for here the three Rune blade also wins pretty handily over the Boston Basher considering that I am a sucker for swords and this thing looks sick the lack of a strange version is a pretty apparent issue for me though since in most cases I do refuse to use a weapon if it isn't strange but considering that I rarely use the Boston Basher to get actual kills I'm definitely willing to make an exception here and declare the three ruin the Victor the holy mackerel versus the unarmed combat was pretty difficult because both of the weapons are pretty goofy in their own respects but I think on an empirical goofiness scale the concept of beating someone with a fish slightly edges out beating him with a disembodied arm apparently they're both against the law but one of them gets you put into a lengthy police interrogation while the other is an open and shut case that only comes with several thousand dollars in fines so because I'm never getting those 12 hours back from the interrogators I'll give this point to the mackerel the Mad milk vs the mutated milk is a bit unfair considering that one of them is actually objectively better than the other if you've watched my videos before specifically this one you know exactly which one it is if not I would recommend doing so for a better explanation but the long short of it is that the bread throwables actually travel slightly farther than the normal versions but pay to win aside the mutated milk can also do this so it gets the point either way and finally Scout has one of the weapons with two different reskins making the choice between three total weapons the Luger morph and the Capper are both reskins at the pistol making what is potentially the best set of reskin options in the entire game all of these weapons are incredibly nice looking even the pistol which would arguably be the weakest out of the three has numerous War paints that really add to the look this was a difficult decision to make that would probably vary based on the day that I made it but as of right now I personally think that the Capper just feels the best to use the laser beams are functionally identical to bullets but they just feel better somehow it's hard to explain but out of all the three pistols the cappers where I'm placing my vote so ending Scout that's one point for the normal weapons and four points for the reskins soldier only has half a reskin so we don't count it here now hold on I know what you're thinking a reskin is a reskin you can't say it's only a half well TJ heavy Yoshi hear me out a reskin is a weapon that's completely identical to the item it's replacing in every way but the model while I'm willing to make exceptions for the bread jars since the differences are extremely minimal the original has a mechanic that definitively separates it from the stock rocket launcher and higher level Play Even though every other stat is the same the fact that the rocket comes from the center of the screen changes enough about your playstyle that we call it half of a reskin so uh yeah I'm gonna skip this one pyro has up to five reskins depending on how we want to handle pyro land personally I think I was wrong to exclude these from my original weapon reskins video since unlike the original the only changes to them are visual so that means that the flamethrower slot is a three-way competition between stock the rain blower and the Nostromo napalmer which makes things very tricky because all three have attributes that I really like the main benefit of stock is that on top of having readily available strange versions it's extra variants like festives and australiums are super nice looking I'm particularly fond of the earlier decorated skin specifically the balloonicorn and the Warhawk on the other hand the rain blower does have nice attributes like an included taunt kill RGB gamer flames and neat visual effects if you're not playing on two for it seriously what the hell were they thinking but on the third hand that I Grew From nuclear waste exposure then a stromo napalmers one of the cool looking reskins in the entire game I know it doesn't really mess with the game's art style perfectly but like just look at it so even though the decision was tough I'm going to say that my favorite flamethrower version all around is stock if the Nostromo nay Palmer had a strange version that it would easily be that one but unfortunately I can't justify using a weapon that doesn't track my life's work and also the Skins carry stock seriously I love some of the paints available for it the fire ax versus the Lolly chop is interesting because why would I bother using either of them but if I had to pick it would probably be the fire ax mainly because it has a kind of neat looking festivized version the mall versus the home wrecker is a bit complicated because while the mall's lack of a strange variant doesn't matter for combat it does mean you can't use it to track how many sappers you've smashed if I use this weapon more I'm sure that would bother me but considering this rarely makes it into my loadouts the mall gets the point and finally the extinguisher versus the postal pummeler is an easy point for the extinguisher while I do like the creativity of the mailbox theme the extinguisher just looks so cool and also it has a bunch of variants that can all be strange where the postal pumbler has none so yeah the this one isn't even close Dem a man throws four more reskins into the Hat none of which come with strange versions goody at least in the case of The Bootlegger there isn't really anything that tracks I'm not having a strange option is really the least of our concerns so between it and the Wii booties I'd say The Bootlegger looks better and is therefore my preferred boot option the Scottish handshake is another reskin that looks absolutely amazing but is personally killed by the lack of kill tracking please dear God valve make Universal stranger fires a thing already last up for demo the Islanders another case where a single weapon has two different reskins both of which look great on their own right between the three head collecting swords I'd say that the nine iron is the weakest conceptually although it does get the bonus points for blocking the least amount of screen real estate I really want to like the Horseless headless Horseman's head taker but due to your view model looking like this I really can't stand using it it's such an interesting design for a weapon that has Unique Sounds and looks super intimidating but the fact that it turns TF2 into an accurate Demoman simulator by blocking half your vision is just too much for me so by default this one goes to The Islander W so considering how nice the festive version looks moving on to heavy there are quite a few reskins to look at because I don't often play this class I'll try to speed through them now between the Iron Curtain and the minigun you probably know what I'm going to say because the Iron Curtain can't be strange however I actually play Heavy so infrequently that not tracking minigun kills really doesn't bother me too much the Iron Curtain is super nice looking with its wooden trim and sharp angles well through this point in the reskin direction the robo sandwich is an insanely cool item that I'm sure would be an absolute joy to use but uh yeah this one's going to stock on principle the day look who's bar vs the fish cake is somewhat even because I really don't care about strange food items but honestly I prefer the look of the chocolate bar more so the delicos wins here the fists overall aren't an amazing weapon considering the incredibly powerful side grade options you have access to but dear God I would be lying if I said the apocofist didn't make me want to use them more they really went above and beyond with these things making people explode on crit kills making the model super detailed and even letting him keep the default taunt kill even though it visually doesn't make any sense is wonderful so these easily sweep the point for heavy stock melee and and last up the gloves of running urgently versus the bread bite is not very close honestly the bright bite is such a unique looking weapon with some of the most intricate animations for any weapon in the entire game and all the default Gru has going forward is that the festive version is slightly to moderately cool looking so the bread boys take another dub engineer has a single reskin on the Giger counter which on top of having a widely debated pronunciation is an absolutely sick looking weapon the only thing I don't like about it is this beam of light coming out of the front mainly because it looks weird in certain lighting environments but outside of that it's not even close the guide your counter handily beats the Wrangler technically engineer has a second weapon that's considered a reskin but like come on now this is a glorified Australian that you've not been able to obtain since Rebecca Black was popular why would I even bother counting this one medic has zero reskins apparently so moving on to sniper gives us a wider selection to choose from first up there are two bow and arrows for your picking the Huntsman which has strange infested versions and the Fortified Compound which does not take a wild guess as to which one I prefer the Fortified Compound not having a strange really sucks though because I do slightly prefer its look compared to the default Huntsman but being able to track stuff like taunt kills headshots and other goofy metrics is super nice to have on a bow so once again the strange dilemma kills yet another otherwise great reskin rest in peace the sniper rifle vs the Opera hand is a super tough decision because while I certainly adore the look and feel of the op the sniper rifle has a ton of really good War panes to choose from while I mainly use the stock sniper rifle I'd say that between the two the oppos actually my Preferred Choice the only reason I refuse to switch now is Kosh sunk fallacy because apparently it can't transfer strange kills between reskins why the self-aware beauty mark is better than the gerardi for a similar reasons as the mutated milk so I won't repeat myself here but I will at least note that the Fest of gerardi did make it a pretty close Contender and finally the makana and the shooting star is yet another competition that is absurdly hard to judge because both weapons look amazing ironically though I think that the shooting star actually fits the game's art style better mainly because it's stylized around what was considered futuristic at the time rather than what's considered futuristic now while this doesn't normally impact my decisions a whole lot the shooting star is just way too good to patch up mainly because of this and with that The Invasion reskins Sweep with a perfect score you know I think I might have a type and ending off the list of classes with spy we have eight entire reskins to rank good Lord Almighty why do they feel the need to add this many for spy and Spy only well regardless they ain't gonna rate themselves so let's plow through them the revolver versus the big kill goes to the revolver and not only for the reason you'd expect the look and feel of the stock revolver is actually quite nice but what really tips it over the edge for me is the festive version just look at this handle Perfection the Euro turn of reward vs the wing a prick also goes in favor of the default version because once again I feel like they just got it right on the first try the Eternal reward is one of my favorite looking melees in the entire game and I can't imagine why they thought that this was the one that needed a reskin the most every other spy reason from here on out comes in groups of three why would they do this instead of Distributing them more I have no idea but it makes the decision just that much harder the knife sharp dresser and black rose are three amazing looking weapons and much like the pistols my opinion on which one is the best changes rather frequently the stock knife is probably the weakest on its own but it's boosted by it having one of the best patterns for paints to map onto so let's alternative versions end up looking incredible the sharp dresser has very satisfying animations and sounds and is overall one of my favorite reskins conceptually and the Black Rose takes everything that I like about the stock knife and ramps it up to 11 coming with two great looking styles to boot the reskins don't have strange versions but in this instance I don't really think it matters because the Black Rose is one of my favorite reskins in the entire game seriously the model and styles for this are both beautiful and I feel bad for anyone who wasn't able to get it for free when Arma was still online the sappers also have a nice triplet of options though I'm not sure they quite live up to the same hype as the knives between stock the snack attack and the apps app only a single one fills with joy as I deploy and have it talk my ear off even though it's louder than my parents divorcing the background of a video I made in 2011 the apps app is a lot of fun to listen to and a great nod to the portal series and last but indeterminedly least the stock cloak watch has its competition in the form of tycho's timepiece in the quackenvert while I do like Pac-Man and wrecked Tangles I mean this one has a duck on it and I like ducks even more than Pac-Man and rectangles so yeah I'm gonna have to go with the quackenvert so that's all the oh wait hold on I'm getting a message what's that there's an untapped pool of reskins we've yet to examine yeah the stock melee reskins are a thing and quite a few of them too because it would be difficult to compare every single stock melee reskin to every single stock melee I'm just going to rank each of them in their own category to keep things easy in order from worst to best there is the crossing guard because it's forgettable the Memory Maker because it's also forgettable but slightly cooler the freedom staff because it's also also forgettable but it has a bird on it and I'm biased towards those the bat out of hell because that's boring but has funny jiggle bones they're pretty machete because it's all class the necro Smasher because it's also all class but is slightly more thematic and the conscientious objector because the concept of allowing anyone to upload any image they want onto a weapon is objectively hilarious and I'm tired of pretending it's not so it's all come down to the ham in the pan definitely widely used but for good reason and between the two I'd say that the best all-class melee re-skin is the ham because I love beating my meat I mean beating people with my meat I mean so the final score of the 2022 reskin Olympics is 10 points for the stock weapons and 17 points for the reskins with the ham shank being the judge I guess unless that concludes my thesis of why Weaponry skins and TF2 have always seemed like a strange case to me so Merry Christmas everyone hopefully my gift of a fan service video is sufficient as much as Weaponry skins has become a meme for whatever reason I really do like the concept of them being able to have a single set of stats that looks like many different things it's a nice touch for the game to have and overall I think TF2 handles attackfully again I just wish the TF2 had a universal strange of fire so we can finally get strangers for all the reskins that don't have them already or hell even just a dedicated crate only containing strange versions of reskins the sky is really the limit here but even though that's probably never going to happen a bird can dream and he can also encourage all of his subscribers to send emails to valve so anyway Merry Christmas Happy New Year thanks for all the growth this year it's been a lot and hopefully next year will be just as great if not better okay bye [Applause] [Music] over here

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Published: Thu Jan 05 2023