The Medic is a Teutonic man of medicine from Stuttgart, Germany. While he may have a tenuous adherence to medical ethics, he is nonetheless the primary healing class of the team. Although the Medic's Syringe Gun and Bonesaw aren't the most excellent weapons for direct combat, he can typically still be found near the front lines, healing wounded teammates while trying to stay out of enemy fire.

When the Medic focuses his Medi Gun on a teammate, they gradually regain health points. Teammates who are already at full health have their health buffed beyond the standard limit, going up to 150% of their base health capacity (with the exception of weapons that have overheal penalties, such as the Fists of Steel and the Quick-Fix). Teammates who have not taken damage recently are healed more rapidly, encouraging other players withdrawals when injured.

When healing, the Medic gradually fills a unique ÜberCharge bar, which can fill faster if healing injured or not-fully-overhealed teammates. When the ÜberCharge bar is fully charged, the Medic's Medi Gun begins to crackle, accompanied by small electric Team-colored particles at its tip, indicating that he can now deploy a unique charge to benefit his healing target (and himself) for eight seconds. A charge from the Medi Gun offers temporary invulnerability; a charge from the Kritzkrieg grants guaranteed critical hits; the Quick-Fix grants rapid healing, along with immunity to knockback and compression blasts from Pyros; and the Vaccinator grants enhanced damage resistance to a specific damage type (bullets, explosives, and fire).

Although the Medic cannot heal himself with his Medi Gun (unless using an ÜberCharge-deployed Quick-Fix or the Kritzkrieg's Oktoberfest taunt), he is capable of slowly regenerating health over time, and is the only class capable of doing this naturally. The longer a Medic stays out of combat and avoids taking damage, the greater the increments of health he passively heals. An injured Medic begins regenerating health at a rate of 3 health points per second, scaling up over the following ten seconds to a maximum of 6 health per second (this base rate can be positively affected by the Amputator, and negatively affected by the Blutsauger). Healing injured teammates will double the current rate of health regeneration.

The Medic is voiced by Robin Atkin Downes.
Name: Dr. Ludwig
Location of origin: Stuttgart, Germany
Job: Doctor Assisted Homicide
Motto: "Prepare for your examination"
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Description: What he lacks in compassion for the sick, respect for human dignity, and any sort of verifiable formal training in medicine, the Medic more than makes up for with a bottomless supply of giant needles and a trembling enthusiasm for plunging them into exposed flesh. Raised in Stuttgart, Germany during an era when the Hippocratic oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion, the Medic considers healing a generally unintended side effect of satisfying his own morbid curiosity.

Class Health Overheal Quick-Fix Overheal
Medic 150 225 189
With the Vita-Saw equipped
140 210 176
Normal Backward Crouched Swimming
107% 96% 36% 85%
Wielding the Overdose at 100% ÜberCharge
128% 115% 43% 102%
Healing a Scout
133% 120% 44% 107%
Note: If the Medic is healing a patient that is faster, he walks at the same speed as long as the beam is connected.

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[*]Use your Medi Gun to heal teammates, and buff them up to 150% of their normal health.
[*]Fill your ÜberCharge by healing teammates. Then hit secondary fire (Default: Mouse2) to activate.
[*]Your ÜberCharge makes both you and your Medi Gun target invulnerable for a short time.
[*]You fill your ÜberCharge faster by healing teammates who are more hurt.
[*] Keep alert for teammates calling for your help. Use the Medic arrows onscreen to find them.
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any and all actions i do in team fortress 2 are based purely on instinct. i have no rhyme or reason behind my actions