Comparing a cleaver to the pistol as scout, 4 hits will equal and outdamage the cleaver+bleed, since the pistol Mini-Crits. With a decent shot, even i can catch 7-9 hits at range in a clip. There's few maps where there is no good ammo, so the pistol wins it on damage for that reason. The cleaver is ...

A lot of pistols for Scout get mini crit, this is fair since he can spam it at a range and do some decent damage with little risk of getting rage killed. The engineer gets full on crits with his pistol due to his lack of speed and mobility, and this makes it quite fair since most engi's use a RR to ...