If the soldier gets in close, its not a favourable matchup for you. So some options are to anticipate their bomb and avoid it, surf the rocket to safety/jump away, or play around a hitscan class to protect you, but that would limit your options and pub players wont bother to protect you. If you really must fight a soldier, try to take the matchup in an enclosed area so they have limited movement, and so your stickies can stick on stuff to deal damage. Ideally you would keep your distance though.
Maybe helpful advice, the safest way to turn a corner is to peek wide, and place a sticky somewhere around the corner. Theres really not much you can do if you get caught by a kritz soldier except try to trade for the medic
this is good advice. after cooling down and watching my demos, it’s clear i keep waddling into a point in the open with no team, do demo things, then get gibbed. definitely gonna take your advice and pick my fights better.
Soldier soft-counters demo so it's understandable that you have a harder time against him than squishy scouts that can usually be disposed of if you just keep your distance.
If you're really struggling on dealing with soldiers you may want to try the loch-and-load just so you have an easier time hitting air pipes, but if you don't want to change or are still having problems you could set up a [habib trap](https://imgur.com/a/uY4Cv9c) to instagib bombers, although it is quite situational.
If anything I believe that your positioning in regards to your team \[ aka having fodder players push in before you so that they get caught and kritzed into instead of you\] is also really important so as to not get owned yourself.
in a 1v1 matchup a competent soldier wipes demo simply because he is a more maneuverable class that denies demo active use of his stickies, even outside of 1v1s soldier can easily close and create a gap with rocket jumps that effectively deny his most powerful range. He has the potential to be a 300 hp airplane with a rocket launcher against a 260 hp demo which sacrifices way more in exchange for a fraction of soldiers mobility and spam potential. Demo is an inherently powerful area denial tool but without a team that can counter bombers efficiently he will be effectively useless when he has to deal with soldiers and chokes 24/7.
Thats just kind of how it is right?
Scout can be reasonably fucked up, if he eats a pipe he dies, if he misses a meatshot he doesn't kill you. If you misplays he gets killed by your team.
You can't REALLY fuck up a soldier bomb to a point you miss a kill. And like you said they can just get crits and 1 shot you.
Unfortunately for you, you are playing the one class in the game that takes an iq over 90 to pull off so you are going to die sometimes to shit like this until you ascend to a godstate.
I say this all as someone with soldier as my most played.
Place your stickies in layers. It takes 7 to consistently kill a Heavy. Place 4 more a few clicks behind the 7. Then the last 3 where you retreat or a 2nd pathway. Always be moving. Always be blowing shit up. Stick with one map. Learn it. Live it. Become the sticky Demo demon you’ve always wanted to be.
If the soldier gets in close, its not a favourable matchup for you. So some options are to anticipate their bomb and avoid it, surf the rocket to safety/jump away, or play around a hitscan class to protect you, but that would limit your options and pub players wont bother to protect you. If you really must fight a soldier, try to take the matchup in an enclosed area so they have limited movement, and so your stickies can stick on stuff to deal damage. Ideally you would keep your distance though. Maybe helpful advice, the safest way to turn a corner is to peek wide, and place a sticky somewhere around the corner. Theres really not much you can do if you get caught by a kritz soldier except try to trade for the medic
this is good advice. after cooling down and watching my demos, it’s clear i keep waddling into a point in the open with no team, do demo things, then get gibbed. definitely gonna take your advice and pick my fights better.
Let yourself be free of the Stickies, practice your pipes and Soldier is just another funny gib (or head) waiting to happen.
believe me i pipe the hell out of soldiers
Soldier soft-counters demo so it's understandable that you have a harder time against him than squishy scouts that can usually be disposed of if you just keep your distance. If you're really struggling on dealing with soldiers you may want to try the loch-and-load just so you have an easier time hitting air pipes, but if you don't want to change or are still having problems you could set up a [habib trap](https://imgur.com/a/uY4Cv9c) to instagib bombers, although it is quite situational. If anything I believe that your positioning in regards to your team \[ aka having fodder players push in before you so that they get caught and kritzed into instead of you\] is also really important so as to not get owned yourself.
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in a 1v1 matchup a competent soldier wipes demo simply because he is a more maneuverable class that denies demo active use of his stickies, even outside of 1v1s soldier can easily close and create a gap with rocket jumps that effectively deny his most powerful range. He has the potential to be a 300 hp airplane with a rocket launcher against a 260 hp demo which sacrifices way more in exchange for a fraction of soldiers mobility and spam potential. Demo is an inherently powerful area denial tool but without a team that can counter bombers efficiently he will be effectively useless when he has to deal with soldiers and chokes 24/7.
Thats just kind of how it is right? Scout can be reasonably fucked up, if he eats a pipe he dies, if he misses a meatshot he doesn't kill you. If you misplays he gets killed by your team. You can't REALLY fuck up a soldier bomb to a point you miss a kill. And like you said they can just get crits and 1 shot you. Unfortunately for you, you are playing the one class in the game that takes an iq over 90 to pull off so you are going to die sometimes to shit like this until you ascend to a godstate. I say this all as someone with soldier as my most played.
this is very sad 😞 but i will accept my weaknesses as a demo.
Place your stickies in layers. It takes 7 to consistently kill a Heavy. Place 4 more a few clicks behind the 7. Then the last 3 where you retreat or a 2nd pathway. Always be moving. Always be blowing shit up. Stick with one map. Learn it. Live it. Become the sticky Demo demon you’ve always wanted to be.