Does a ubercharge last longer if the patient is taking damage?

Question

We know that there are a few rules about the rate you build an ubercharge at, such as:

• You build ubercharge faster if the patient isn't fully overhealed.
• You build ubercharge faster if the patient isn't healed by somebody else.
• You don't build ubercharge if you aren't healing anybody.

Do these rules also apply while you deploy an ubercharge? Is healing an ubercharged patient going to reduce the length of the ubercharge? If the patient isn't taking damage, does it mean the ubercharge will be shorter? If your patient dies, does your ubercharge deplete much faster?

Answer

The duration of an ÜberCharge is always 8 seconds when you keep a single patient; the only thing affected by a patient's health status is healing, which is a separate matter from ÜberCharge. The only thing that shortens an ÜberCharge (for the Medic) is passing the healing beam to multiple patients so more than one person receives invulnerability.

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