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“ hadn't been drunk! Ah heh.

— The Demoman after successfully using a bottle as a weapon Imagine if Ibeen drunk! Ah heh. ”

The Scottish Handshake is a community-created melee weapon for the Demoman. It is a dark brown glass rum bottle, made by the Demoman's DeGroot family ancestors in 1680.

This weapon functions identically to the Bottle.

While the weapon works similarly to most of the other melee weapons, if a critical hit is achieved when striking a surface or player, the Scottish Handshake's lower half shatters and will remain so until the player is killed (it does not mend upon touching a Resupply locker). This is purely cosmetic; the broken Scottish Handshake has the same range and deals no more or less damage than it did prior to being broken.

The Scottish Handshake was later contributed to the Steam Workshop, at Valve's request.

The backpack icon was contributed by smash.mn

Damage and function times

Identical to: Bottle

Damage and function times Damage type Melee Ranged or Melee damage? Melee Damage Base damage 100% 65 Critical 195 Mini-crit 88 Function times Attack interval 0.8 s Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Item set

Crafting

Blueprint

As a crafting ingredient

Related achievements

The Scottish Play

Get a melee kill while sticky jumping.

October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)

The Scottish Handshake was added to the game.

September 4, 2012 Patch

Backpack sounds updated for the Scottish Handshake.

October 26, 2012 Patch (Spectral Halloween Special)

[Undocumented] Removed shattered-bottle materials from the game files.

June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)

[Undocumented] Re-added broken model for the Scottish Handshake.

October 20, 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)

Fixed the Scottish Handshake not having its models break on critical hits.

Trivia

The term "Scottish Handshake" refers to the stereotype that a person of Scottish heritage greets people with physical assault, due to their stereotypical violent nature.

The year the rum was made, 1680, was chosen because it was the year the notorious pirate Blackbeard was born.

This item was originally showcased in the Medieval Update, together with the rest of Swashbuckler's Swag set.

Gallery

First-person view.

The broken Scottish Handshake model.

Steam Workshop thumbnail for the Scottish Handshake.