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Well, in the time you get one flare in you'd get 2, maybe 3 shotgun shots. That makes the later perfect for finishing off burning enemies. The flaregun is more of a nuisance. You woun't kill anything with it unless the target is already on low health, which means that you would've killed him with the shotty anyway. Sure, I can think of some cases where it actually proves lethal and not just annoying but not enough.
I'll agree though that if you're really good at aming it it's the pyros only chance against a scout. But a sniper? No way. By the time the flare flies you'd have been headshotted, respawned and spammed E for 6 times in spawn area already.
Not true, you dont run towards the sniper spamming flares at them xD You just do pot shots round corners before the sniper knows where you are, if you do the pot shots properly it means that the sniper only has less half a second to see you, then shoot (and get a headshot). If you get a crit flare then the sniper will most likely die, unless they camp a health pack.
Also if the person is far away, running back to get half after retreating from a fight, you can hit him with a flare just before he turns round it, meaning that if he doesn't have over 80 health he will most likely die (unless a medic heals him). Also the impact damage of the flare is 40, so if they have ~50 health they should easily die. Something a shotgun can't do, at the same range the shotgun would do 10-30 damage if your lucky
I have got 5 kpd as pyro by just using flaregun/axtiguisher, and been around the mid/upper part of the scoreboard while doing it.