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The Backburner is intended for flanking and scoring critical hits from behind. Unfortunately, competitively, Pyro is much more of a support class: protecting the Engineer and the combo and reflecting incoming projectiles. Thus, the Backburner has little to no use in competitive play, due to the fact that a flanking Backburner Pyro is simply a worse Spy, and also due to the fact that the Backburner's hefty airblast penalty is crippling to your team's defense.
 
The Backburner is intended for flanking and scoring critical hits from behind. Unfortunately, competitively, Pyro is much more of a support class: protecting the Engineer and the combo and reflecting incoming projectiles. Thus, the Backburner has little to no use in competitive play, due to the fact that a flanking Backburner Pyro is simply a worse Spy, and also due to the fact that the Backburner's hefty airblast penalty is crippling to your team's defense.
  
==== The Phlogistinator ====
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=== The Phlogistinator ===
  
 
The Phlogistinator, while often looked at as a powerful public primary for the Pyro, is highly regarded as the worst flame thrower for competitive play. This is due almost entirely to the fact that it removes the Pyro's ability to airblast, and thus removing much of his utility such as being able to deflect spam and delay Übercharges. In exchange for this, he is granted 100% crit chance when using Mmmmph. A Pyro using The Phlogistinator is forced to play two considerably ineffective styles of play, the "W+M1" style which involves simply walking at the enemy while firing the weapon, which is looked down on by the majority of the competitive scene, or playing defensively with a Flare-based weapon, igniting enemies to build Mmmph from a distance, which relies on landing flares. The fact that the Phlogistinator's picking potential and effectiveness is heavily dependent on surprise (especially regarding the crits-mechanic), its sufficient usage is pretty much nullified by the aspect of communication, awareness and general calls given in a competitive enviroment.
 
The Phlogistinator, while often looked at as a powerful public primary for the Pyro, is highly regarded as the worst flame thrower for competitive play. This is due almost entirely to the fact that it removes the Pyro's ability to airblast, and thus removing much of his utility such as being able to deflect spam and delay Übercharges. In exchange for this, he is granted 100% crit chance when using Mmmmph. A Pyro using The Phlogistinator is forced to play two considerably ineffective styles of play, the "W+M1" style which involves simply walking at the enemy while firing the weapon, which is looked down on by the majority of the competitive scene, or playing defensively with a Flare-based weapon, igniting enemies to build Mmmph from a distance, which relies on landing flares. The fact that the Phlogistinator's picking potential and effectiveness is heavily dependent on surprise (especially regarding the crits-mechanic), its sufficient usage is pretty much nullified by the aspect of communication, awareness and general calls given in a competitive enviroment.

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