The bread and butter of the Spy. Knowing your Knifes and the Backstab

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But First, How do the Knives work?

The stock Knifes and its reskins

The Spy-cicle

The Your Eternal Reward

The Conniver's Kunai

The Big Earner

Ahh, the dreaded weapon, the bane of every Sniper and Engie's life. The Knife and its backstab. A backstab can occur anywhere in the back 180 radius behind the your enemy's crosshair, giving you plenty of room to make the stab. Each backstab has an attack interval of 0.8 s between each stab. One obvious thing I see new Spy's doing is using the wrong knife at the wrong time. So this section is dedicated to those knifes, and whatnot, lets take a STAB at this....All knifes share the same basic stats, such as Damage, attack intervals, base damage, and of course, the dreaded backstab. What makes them different is how they affect playstyles, certain knifes change the Spy's playstyle drastically. Let's look at them one at a time nowThe classic Knife, the most balanced of the bunch, with no major downsides or upsides and the basis that the other knifes are judged on. It's reskins include, The Black Rose, the Botkillers, The Austrailium from Two Citys, The Festive, and my personal favorite, The Sharp Dresser inspired by the hidden blades from Assassins Creed. The stock knife and the majority of knifes, stock or not, excluding the Sharp Dresser and Spy-cicle, use the Fencing taunt. This taunt is exactly what it says on the tin. The spy fences with his knife, however, the Fencing taunt can kill, so its great for trolling those idle players.This is my personal Knife of choice. The Spy-cicle functions exactly the same as the stock, with a some MAJOR changes. When you are hit by fire, from say a Pyro, your Spy-cicle will give you 2 seconds of fire immunity, at the cost of it melting. After the Spy-cicle melts, you can not use it, after 15 seconds, your Spy-cicle will regenerate, once again allowing you to backstab those poor Snipers you saw. Another downside is that after a backstab, you will leave an ice sculpture of your victim behind, thus allowing your enemys to track you down a bit easier.The Your Eternal Reward (Which I will now refer to as the YER) is the prime example of the phrase 'Difficult, but awesome', it has a reskin called The Wanga Prick. Like the Spy-cicle it is a silent killer, leaving no trace ofthe killfeed and no backstab noise. It cloaks your enemys corspe, leaving no trace of the victim behind, no scream, no nothing, sounds great right? The downside to this weapon, is that you can not use your disguise kit while using the YER, instead getting your disguises from the victims you backstab, disguising you instantly upon a kill. This is a great knife once you get the hang of it.This Kunai is an interesting weapon, while it reduces your health to 65, on a backstab, you drain the enemys health. All of it. This can, in the right hand's, turn Spy into a monsterous tank, backstabbing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ left and right, stealing their health. Though in the hands of a noob.... let's just say there will be blood.This USED to be the runt of the bunch.... until it got buffed! Now when equipping this weapon reduces the max health of the user by 25, lowering the Spy's overall health to 100. However, killing an enemy with this weapon, either with a backstab or regular melee attack, will fill the Cloak meter by 30% and gain a speed boost for about 3 seconds, regardless of which cloaking device is equipped.Thats all the knifes, so that means its time for....