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I don't even run defibs when I'm playing medic support, just use the drag revive.
9/10 times a 0 skill clout chasing support who has 0 map awareness or any single clue what is going on is just sprinting around reviving people in the line of fire, forcing them to endure a secondary time wasting death.
Drag people out of the line of fire, if you can't drag them because you'll die, guess what, they would have died when you and your over-inflated ego based on a completely useless metric defibbed them in the line of fire.
0 skill medics hate the change. Half skill medics didn't revive people anyways because at least they're getting kills on point. Actually skilled medics recognize where the battle line is and how they can move it, reinforce it, or protect their team when it's being broken through by the enemy.
Yep this is why I sometimes use my medic without the defibs and instead run the smoke launcher and deployable cover. Lob a smoke or two, go to the downed player, slap the deployable cover down between them and the enemy, drag revive and dip.
You're safer doing the revive and they stand more of a chance after the fact.