What do you guys think is the best knife in PAYDAY 2?

[Luna]

I own all the DLCs that include at least one knife in it but can't decide which one is the best? I'm generally looking for knife statistics and not design. Thanks guys for your help in advance.

Another additional question: What do you guys think is the best melee weapon in the game? Imo the Lucille Baseball Bat is the best one but maybe it's just me.

[Fellby]

Everyday I'm shovelin'

[Panic Fire]

Retractable Batan.

[Jej]

Hm...when it comes to knives, I'd reccomend the "Utility Machete".
When it comes to blunt weapons, DING DONG.

[Vincent Vega]

i usually just grab one of the ones with 30 concealment for stealth since i dont really use it a ton or survival hatchet for heavy cause its awesome.

[Rockfire ✘]

Knuckle dusters ftw

[CONTROLLER ONLY MAN]

Fire Axe

[Obiwun]

X-46 ftw, best uncharged dmg from all knives.
Best not knife melee weapon i'd say bat for knockdown or machete for dmg.

[Hicks]

These days I am going with the hatched from the Assault pack (I believe). The short hatchet that looks like a spade or something like that lol.

[{SK} That Lamer]

Before they added concealment to melee weapons (when did that happen, anyway?) I would have said the tomahawk since I find raw damage better than knockdown, but after I'm using the utility machete since it's got good charge damage and near max conceal. Melee isn't really useful outside of stealth, in which case you should have time to charge your attack.

If I'm going loud from the start though, nothing beats the fire axe since the damage is almost good enough to use it when I need to reload but don't have the time.

[literally for what]

Anything that does over 40 damage. I usually use the hotline miami machete because it has the most charge damage of all the 40 damage melee weapons.

[Narf2029]

Lucille bat. Very high base damage and knockdown. Not the best for a charged-up hit but when someone is trying to invade your personal space and you just need to whack them on the nose really quick and really hard, Lucille is your girl.

[Luna]

Thanks for your replies guys, the X-46 is the best knife now imo and I will stick to the Lucille Baseball Bat. Once again, thanks a lot for helping a noob here. This PAYDAY 2 community is turning out to have quite a few nice people!

[Malidictus]

The thing with melee weapons is most of them really aren't worth bothering with. You can't afford to stand there trading blows with one cop since his melee attack hits several times harder than yours and he has ten buddies shooting at you at the same time. For this reason, you need to pick a melee weapon that's instantly useful to you on a single hit, be it normal or charged.

I know you're talking about the knives, they're all pretty much the same in stats. None of them deal enough damage to matter, so they're mostly useful when charged up. For this reason, I'd pick the Trautman Knife. It deals the most damage when charged up and might be able to one-shot regular cops.

My personal choice, though, goes to the Fire Axe. It's a VERY slow weapon in every regard so you don't want to miss, but it deals enough damage even non-charged-up to take out everything short of a Special Cop. That makes it very good because it's useful in taking down errant enemies who surprise you mid-reload.

The only other reason I'd use a melee weapon for is knockback. For this, I'm torn between the Lucille Baseball Bat (the barb wire bat) because it does a tremendous amount of knockback uncharged, and the Ding Dong Breaching Tool (the warhammer) because it deals the most knockback damage you'll ever see when charged up. Both of those can ragdoll cops if used right, but they don't do enough damage to one-shot everybody.

Frankly, Knives are only really useful for stealth anyway. Their stats are awful but they're concealable while still giving you a decent punch if you get the drop on the guards. Which one you pick kind of depends on your level and whether you want to charge up your shots or not.

[Johannes]

Machete all the way, 'cept Walking Dead baseball bat is fun to use. Make 'em weaklings fly!

[WillowPip]

I usually just use my knife that looks like the YER from tf2.. Besides that, if you're looking for best damage, pick/katana/icebreaker