What is the Detonator's "flare explosion" and how do I perform one?

On the Detonator's wiki page, it says the following under base damage: enter image description here

I know that the 30 damage is achieved when the detonator is a direct hit, and the 10-20 damage is achieved when the flare is manually detonated (the damage depending on the distance from the detonated flare to the enemy), but what is a flare explosion?

The wiki page provides no more information than simply "flare explosion: 56 [damage]", so what is a flare explosion, and how do I use one on an enemy?

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Best Answer

Shortly after firing a flare from the Detonator, the Pyro can detonate the flare with the alternate-fire keybind. This creates a small explosion that does damage and lights all enemies hit on fire.

The Pyro can also use the detonation to air-jump. From experience, I'd say it gives about as much distance as a single Force-a'-Nature shot.

The damage stat for "flare detonation" that you see is something you can't quite control. If you manually detonate the flare, the damage is from the "flare detonation" stat, whereas if a flare detonates on impact, it deals the "flare explosion" damage.

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For the class THEY BANNED from EVERY SINGLE day of the Uber Update! The Detonator is a community-created secondary weapon for the Pyro....Damage and function times.[collapse]Damage and function timesBase damage100%23 Flare detonation: 11-21 Flare explosion: 23-42Critical68Mini-crit30Afterburn4 / tick 60 total13 more rows•Mar 10, 2022

How does the detonator work tf2?

the scorch shot is great against snipers, or teams that are running an offense/defense corner for knocking them back and minicritting groups. the flare is good against single, mid-range targets. it moves too slowly to be used at long range, and doesn't have the explosion from the scorch shot to help if it misses.

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