Who to uber?

When you get an uber and there's no soldier, demoman, heavy, or pyro around, is it best to uber a less-effective class to get the jump on the enemy and survive a potential death (spies come out of nowhere), or wait and try to survive until you see a suitable class appear?

well, if your going to die, obviously pop the uber. also you have to understand getting a jump on the enmy and escaping death are two different things, so don't connect them with and. If you are playing medic and want to get a "jump" on the enemy so you uber an engi, just quit medic now. I am surprised you lived long enough to build an uber. the four classes  you listed should be the only ones you uber unless your going to die.

Agree, only uber other classes if you will die otherwise. In this case I often try to uber a scout since they are fast and can do a lot of damage with their scattergun.

Don't anticipate the use of the uber, just make sure it's deployed tactically.

If a last point is getting capped, and only you and a Sniper are there, use it, because it stops the point from being capped.  Remember the big picture in ALL modes in TF2 is NOT killing the enemy (there is no Deathmatch mode, though you'll find servers that promote 1v1 or the like)  Be it CP (Control Point), CTF (Capture the Flag), PL (Payload) or TC (Territory Control), you have to understand what the goal is.

For example, in CTF, it's all about keeping your intel at home, and getting their intel to your base.  If your team dies 400x over but incrementally gets the cap out of it, then you've had many tactical failures, but a strategic success.  Try and deploy the uber when it helps THAT goal in the case that you cannot use the Uber for straight forward killing sprees.

The uber can be used offensively and defensively.  A Medic who runs out to take the brunt of a Sentry that's guarding a route your teammate is taking to bring intel back and using an Uber on yourself merely to decoy the damage from your teammate is a tactical use of the Uber that involves NOBODY else.  You can use an Uber to block someone's advance, since they cannot pass through you - you can stand in a doorway and deny them passage.  Even when it wears off and you die, if because of your actions you helped the intel get out and the team to cap, then you were pivotal in the strategic success.  Too many people focus on getting straight up kills as being the only thing an uber can do for them.

I usally just deploy the uber if me or my heal-buddy is going to die.  I once saw a friendly spy on about 20hp about to get pulped by a rocket so i ubered him.
We ended up getting a backstab on the idiot and got a nice revolver kill on a bumbling engie
Good days!

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Generally wait, unless

1. There is only a few secs left on the clock
2. If someone (Scout, for instance) is about to die. I would use the Uber to save his life.

I'm conflicted about saving a team Scout's life.

I mean, on one hand, your teammate is gonna die, he needs you to save his life.  And other the other hand, he's a Scout, bastage class of TF2.

Choices, choices.

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