Best crowd control melee?

[Silent]

I have the Redeemer prime and find that it's better one on one, but not crowd control. I saw someone last week with a paracesis and getting more kills than everyone. What's your favorite crowd control melee weapon?

[Kawalorn]

I personally use Lacera when I want to go for range. Fun moveset AND it reaches really far.

[s0laris]

You can go for max reach heavy blades like Gram, Paracesis, Galatin (Prime where applicable). They are slow without the proper modding but the ground slam (especially with Paracesis) is so strong that with 2-3 short jump-slams you send a screen of enemies in the air (doing heavy damage in the process, killing 90% of what the game has to offer). Dokhram zaw also works.

A bare minimum of Berserker or a good riven to provide attack speed is needed, however, if modded properly, those heavy blades absolutely wreck the opposition, usable against anything the game can offer to you from basic swipe of multiple enemies to massacring a boss.

Personally, im a sucker for Gram Prime. I got Berserker, Weeping Wounds, Blood Rush and the essential damage/crits mods, plus the necessary arcanes, the weapon chops down opposition so fast that i cannot even assess its power level. Feels like it was designed for a different game.

[Eru]

Atterax is really good, a 'spin to win' in some cases.

[Darkk]

Atterax, Scoliac. Tatsu is also good but you need to be fast af

[Klokw3rk]

for crowd control a blast zenistar can hold a choke point by deploying its disk

otherwise weapons with high ranges like the attarax or zaw polearms are your best option

[Azrielus]

Gram Prime with Seismic Wave and Primed Fury will murder everything in sight.

[Just Life]

A well built Zaw melee weapon can do wonders. Ones made with either of these two Strikes, Dokrahm(Heavy Blade) and Plague Kripath(Polearm) has good range and stats (assuming you built them right or made to your preference).

Also Zaws can use the Exodia Arcanes. Exodia Epidemic for example, after doing a double jump and a slam attack, anything within range will be sent to the air and float in place. Kinda like a mini Rhino Stomp.

A alternative to Exodia Epidemic is Exodia Hunt. After doing a Slam Attack, Exodia Hunt will pull all nearby enemies within range to you as long as they are not already under some kind of animation lock. Enemies effected by Exodia Hunt are opened up to Finisher moves.

[Peel]

I would recommend the Jat Kittag. It has an automatic blast proc on its (very wide) slam attacks, which will send enemies flying.

It's a hammer and therefore slow, but if you need CC you usually need it in a burst. Just jump, slam, no more enemies close by.

If using it regularly, the melee the combos usually include some CC as well, but that can actually be counterproductive to killing things as they're always flying away!

[AD33L]

A good Dokrahm Zaw with the Tempo Royale stance. Put primed reach and a riven with range on it, its my fav.

[zeromaveric]

not for CC, but for just general quick kills, i mainly use Orthos Prime, viral modded, and it makes quick work to kill a lot of enemies. i main Frost Prime, but if i were to use Mirage/Prime, then the melee with her mirrors skill would be overkill