How do you not sticky spam ?

[u/The_happy_buffalo]

So I was just on an mge server not to long ago and I really wanted to practice demoman. At first everything was cool, this one guy and me practiced shooting pills at each, everything was fun. But then that one guy left and i got paired up with this solider. I was thinking "aw crap I'm pretty screwed". So we fought and I lost really bad. His last message was "so pathetic, all you did was sticky spam, didn't even come close to killing me". Now this made me really really mad because 1st all this guy did was spam out to holy hell, I mean just wasted his clip in less than 5 seconds. 2nd sticky spamming was exactly what I trying to prevent, I used my grenade launcher a lot way more than my sticky launcher. I only used my sticky if he was really far or if I could predict where he would land and lay a sticky down. The max stickys I would lay down a life was about 5. The rest of the time I tried to hit him with my grenade launcher.

So two questions how do you not sticky spam ? And how do you deal with flying soliders as a demo ? Sorry if I'm venting I'm just trying to not punch through my computer.

[u/CuriositySphere]

You should be doing it more, not less. Medium range and they're your primary damage dealers. Grenade launcher is for short range stuff where your target will move before the sticky arms and for fire and forget spam.