Main / thumbnail art by Jarnqk

https://x.com/Jarnqk/status/1726121596191113537

 

Savanna’s Pyroshark outfit, by ElisaLevin

https://x.com/ElisaDaBug/status/1654126656871886850 (NSFW source URL)

 

“I took this photo of a new loadout I made for Pyro in TF2 and I just thought it was simply too goofy and cute so I wanted to draw it :]”

https://x.com/Ponpuramu/status/1373696902793936897

 

“a friendly pyroshark” by CartoonCrayon

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/i6tlzn/a_friendly_pyroshark/

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For those unfamiliar with TF2: the pyromaniac class has an unlockable melee weapon called the Neon Annihilator, which gives guaranteed critical hits (3x dmg) against enemies who have “wet” status – an ironic weapon for a character whose majority of weapons deal fire damage.

As a result, this birthed the impractical but hilarious “PyroShark” playstyle, where Pyros neglect their flamethrowers for this item instead, camp areas with any water at all, and not-so-stealthily await to ambush enemy gamers who get the slightest bit wet.

To boot, a headwear cosmetic item was later added to the game simply called “Pyro Shark”:

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#FixTF2 by the way; the goofy PyroShark shenanigans cannot continue when TF2 servers are overrun with swarms of aimbots :(