Melee weapon tier list by a guy

[REhorror]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDGgSYzmyMU

Honestly kinda surprised that the Laser Slicer is rated so slow, I love that weapon, maybe it's just not that good in PvP*.

Yeah, while I know that the pile driver is uber srong, I didn't know that the plasma yo-yo is this strong, always find it awkward to use, even compared to the stun baton.

Then again, it's just his opinion.

[Enderspoons]

Yeah. The plasma yoyo is pretty cracked and can dish out some devastatingly high damage (as most melee/short-ranged weapons are wont to do), but unlike most other melee weapons you don't actually lunge forward with it.
If you can play around that, its long reach in its class makes its uncharged attacks nigh-impossible to avoid for blokes that get caught anywhere within striking distance. Charged attack is pretty bloody useless though.

[The Icecream Snowman]

I have no idea what the charged attack is supposed to do. It makes lots of pretty lights, deals no damage.

Is the range of that charged attack shorter than the light attack? Is the hit box just really narrow? Is it actually just hot garbage?

I found the stun baton to be very easy to deal high damage. When you get the heavier lance type weapons to land they will shred your enemy, but I'd miss just a bit too often, especially against late game enemies. They got me into more trouble than they got me out of, so I ditched them.

[REhorror]

I guess technical power aside, it also depends on how you like to use the weapons.

This guy is rating the weapon on PvE perspective btw.

[Blunette]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Yeah. The plasma yoyo is pretty cracked and can dish out some devastatingly high damage (as most melee/short-ranged weapons are wont to do), but unlike most other melee weapons you don't actually lunge forward with it.
If you can play around that, its long reach in its class makes its uncharged attacks nigh-impossible to avoid for blokes that get caught anywhere within striking distance. Charged attack is pretty bloody useless though.

The fact that it doesn't lunge means you don't need to bother with Melee Attack Thrust at all for booster options, and you can fire it while moving in tank legs or tetrapod flight. That bumps it up quite a bit with the hit and run or ACS punishes.

[michaelthered]

im having fun going through the game for the 4th time and shoving the coral oscillator up these bosses "you know where". I stunned michigan with two stun needles and then boosted at him with the charged oscillator, doneso. I love this thing. Prob a pain in the ass in pvp tho isn't it?

[REhorror]

Originally posted by michaelthered:

im having fun going through the game for the 4th time and shoving the coral oscillator up these bosses "you know where". I stunned michigan with two stun needles and then boosted at him with the charged oscillator, doneso. I love this thing. Prob a pain in the ass in pvp tho isn't it?

I hear it's actually very well used and kinda buggy in PvP.
But I need to get more into the PvP.

[Wutever]

As broken as Pile Bunker is in the campaign, I don't think it deserves to be number 1 in PvP (I assume this list also includes PvP since he does mention it in the video). It doesn't track well enough for it to compete with most other melee weapons against ACs.

I also think the pulse blade deserves to be higher because of how well it tracks and how much Direct Hit it has. Another thing that can't be overlooked is that it is INCREDIBLY weight and EN efficient. That thing weighs like nothing.

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Wutever:

As broken as Pile Bunker is in the campaign, I don't think it deserves to be number 1 in PvP (I assume this list also includes PvP since he does mention it in the video). It doesn't track well enough for it to compete with most other melee weapons against ACs.

I also think the pulse blade deserves to be higher because of how well it tracks and how much Direct Hit it has. Another thing that can't be overlooked is that it is INCREDIBLY weight and EN efficient. That thing weighs like nothing.

This guy is ranking mostly on PvE kinda view (hence his judgement on the Laser Lance being too telegraphed for PvP).

Which seems kinda pointless in retrospect, because melee weapons mostly work in PvE, PvP is different me think.

[This PC]

truly one of the guys of a population of times

[D. Flame]

How you going to rank pile bunker that high and the moonlight and its coral equivalent so low?

Pile bunker is broken damage wise, but it requires proper setup meaning it has crap utility. Meanwhile the moonlight swords are basically just infinite ammo guns that work in almost every situation.

[Le Hatch]

Pretty sure the laser slicer does more then a charged pile bunker against ACS locked targets too, if not via direct damage, but via the combo staggering drawn out that lets you hit a follow up shot with all of your weapons without sending your target flying away after the melee.

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Le Hatch:

Pretty sure the laser slicer does more then a charged pile bunker against ACS locked targets too, if not via direct damage, but via the combo staggering drawn out that lets you hit a follow up shot with all of your weapons without sending your target flying away after the melee.

True, this is how I deal with some bosses in NG+ once I got the laser slicer.
Literally just slice them while charging the other weapon(s).

[Wutever]

Slicer into a charged Wuerger laser shotgun blast is a disgusting combo, but it still doesn't quite sell me on the Slicer. Mostly because stuff like the Pulse Blade can pull off that combo as well.

[Belmont]

Slicer is also a sleeper hit. It's focused as a punish tool but I think it's the parry blade of this generation with its passive blocking so for example, you can be fighting someone with the Laser blade and you dodge the first charge swing, then move in on the second one to mitigate the damage and respond with your own combo/charged hit for an ACS break into punish. It's just too early to be making tier lists when everyone wants the obvious answers to mechanics.