Its current rank is displayed under the name of the weapon in light grey text.

Using a Name Tag will change the name of the Strange weapon, but the weapon will still retain its rank and counter.

Kills are counted together for classes that share the same Strange weapon.

Activating the Dead Ringer via environmental damage, such as fall damage.

The Fencing, Skewer, Decapitation and Organ Grinder taunts are exceptions to this.

Killing yourself with a Strange weapon.

Strange weapons owned by a steam user with inventory privacy settings set to Friends only or Private will hide the number of kills and the name of the rank on the weapon to other players on servers.

Any action involving bots (including Mann vs.

Activating the Cloak of a Spy who is using the Dead Ringer.

The following actions do not increase the total kill count for strange weapons:.

Killing a teammate while friendly fire is enabled will increase your kill total with that weapon by one, as though it were a normal kill.

Therefore killing someone with heads, such as another Demoman with the Eyelander (and all variants) or a Sniper with the Bazaar Bargain will only yield one kill.

The Eyelander levels up only on kills, rather than totaly heads collected.

Cosmetics rank up based on points earned while wearing the item.

The Construction PDA tracks Sentry Gun kills, the amount of health points restored to teammates with a Dispenser and the number of allies Teleported and ranks up based on Sentry Gun kills.

The Invis Watch tracks and ranks up based on seconds cloaked upon decloak.

The Festive Buff Banner and Battalion's Backup tracks and ranks up based on banners deployed.

The Festive Sandvich tracks and ranks up based on food items eaten and will only increase if the Sandvich is used to heal damage.

The Holiday Punch tracks how many people you have tickled along with amount of kills, and ranks up based on people you have tickled.

The Dead Ringer tracks and ranks up based on number of feigned deaths.

The Sapper counts how many buildings have been destroyed by sapping them.

The Razorback tracks and ranks up based on the number of Spies shocked by backstabbing it, or 'Spies Shocked'.

The Kritzkrieg ranks up based on kill assists.

The Medi Gun, Quick-Fix and Vaccinator rank up based on ÜberCharges deployed.

The Medi Gun, Quick-Fix, Vaccinator and Kritzkrieg track ÜberCharges and kill assists.

The Southern Hospitality only tracks standard melee kills.

The Wrench, Gunslinger, and Jag track Sentry Gun kills, whether Wrangled or not, and standard melee kills, and rank up based on Sentry Gun kills.

Mad Milk and Jarate track and rank up based on the number of coated enemies, or 'Sodden Victims'.

The following Strange items do not track kills, instead:.

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