I do not think that being a pocket medic is good. It's a cheap, and in my opinion boring way to farm kills. If you really want to be a good medic, don't pocket medic. There are lots more efficient ways to get more kills and push your teams attack then just healing the nearest heavy.

But, there are still pocket medics out there. And when there is, people are always competing to be pocketed.

Pocket medics normally target heavies, that's self explainatory. But what about everyone else? These are the top 9 classes:
Heavy
Soldier
Pyro - Demoman - Tie
Other Medics
Scout
Sniper
Engineer - If you really want to be a noob and farm off sentry assists.
Spy - Don't heal them, for Christ's sake.

Obviously Heavy comes on top due to his high health, range, firing speed, and ammo clip. But, in some games such as MvM, it's more efficient to heal a solider or demoman.

Now I'm not making a guide on how to pocket medic, I'm making one on how to get a pocket medic. So depending on the level of noob of said pocket medic, you can go as far down as the list as you want. Most noobs (or F2Ps, but I don't personally believe them to be noobs) will stop the list at Pyro and Demoman. While more experienced players might heal friendly medics and scouts.

This again, applies to the level of noob of the medic. If you spam the E button at an experienced player when you have max health, he's going to get mad at you and heal someone else. If you spam E at a noob medic, he doesn't care how much health you have, he's not in it to heal you, he's in it to get assists.

If you're getting healed, you want to continue to be healed. If your medic dies, you won't be healed anymore. That's basic logic.

So if that's the case, why is it that whenever you heal someone as medic, they walk out into the battlefield like you're not there, and then yell at you if you die.

Now I'm not hating on those people who just walk away from the medic because they don't want to be healed as they care about their team winning more then getting a few extra kills. Yeah know, they want someone better to be healed. What am I thinking, you never see this in TF2.

When you're getting healed, you can see your medic's heal bar and his uber levels, and he can see your health bar and ammo count. So if your medic's health is at 23, don't just sit there and think he can suck it up. Sure, medic does have auto regen, but that's very slow, and even at a slower rate for blutsauger users. Stop shooting your minigun, and walk out of the field for a bit so your medic can pickup a health kit. Keeping your medic alive is your number one priority.


Do not take health kits. Your medic is constantly healing you, but getting nothing but kill assists in return. You don't even need the health kits for crying outloud.


Pocket Medic actually does take skill. You have a struggle the entire way through: staying alive. Depending on how bad the player is, you really need to worry about where he is at all times. If the medic is about 5-10 strafes back your good. If he's directly behind you or in front of you, you're in trouble.

If he's directly in behind you, a spy could backstab him then you in a single moment. If he's farther back, he can backstab the medic, but then that gives you enough time to react. He is also open to lots of fire.

If he's behind you, he not only gets in the way of your shots, but could easily die, as people are targetting you, but your medic is in the way, the one thing that is keeping you alive.

Medic is also the second fastest class in the game, and chances are you're the slowest. When running into war he might outrun you and encounter the enemy before you; do your best to prevent this.

This is common sense. Compare a heavy using the minigun and killing people from long ranges, to another heavy only using his gloves.

Who would you heal if you were a medic?

Only use melee if someone is up close, or maybe you're moving from point A to point B and need to take out the Eviciton Notice or Gloves of Running Urgently, that's no problem. Just don't main melee.

The saddest sight to see in TF2 is when the healee dies before the healer. Watch out for spies, and be aware of snipers. They will headshot and backstab you and you will die instantly. Medics don't heal people with a large death number. (Not that anyone can view that but you.)

When being healed, play normally. Hit, shoot, stab, do all your normal stuff. But just be aware that your medic has a health bar too, and it's not as large as yours. (In most cases.)

So, you read the whole guide. It turns out it was just one big rant about how people don't even bother to think about where all this health is coming from and stop shooting so their medic can pickup a health kit.

If you're interested, I've got a youtube channel you can checkout. I have a couple of videos on TF2, but plan on making a few more. (maybe even some on this guide.) I've also got lot's of other random crap you can check out that a 156th of my viewers find entertaining.
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Thanks for reading, peace out hoovies.