Worst melee Vs Best melee?

[Butthead]

Whats the worst and whats the best. Thoughts gentlemen?!

[Amins]

Worst: Stun Baton
Best: Anything but Stun Baton if you spec properly into it

[Butthead]

Originally posted by Amins:

Worst: Stun Baton
Best: Anything but Stun Baton if you spec properly into it

really, how come? I always thought the electrocuting mechanic was cool and useful, plus its can benefit from one handed skills.

[Amins]

Electrocution seems pointless when you can just oneshot enemies with any other melee weapon when they're maxed out. It's such a hassle having to shock an enemy, then switch out to something better to finish them off.

I'd much rather chop off heads with a machete or have the knockdown effect from every other weapon. And clusters of dancing electrocuted zombies just get in the way.

[Amins]

Maybe if they add a tier 3 baton type weapon that has better benefits, they could be more useful.

[The Waffle that Lurks]

I don't think that's fair to the Stun Baton

Adding a Shock Repulsor and using the Nerd candy to give it an AoE can allow you to yeet a lot of zombies while stunning and ragdolling them. If you play on a modded server with Boss Zombies (Darkness Falls for example) or very powerful zombies with 1000s of HP the Stun Baton instantly shoots to top tier as well.

[Evensong]

Machete and blades in general my are top choices just for fun factor. Also saves me a slot on the toolbar since I use them for hunting anyway which is rad.

[WaterMelwin]

bat

[Midas]

Originally posted by smosh:

Originally posted by Amins:

Worst: Stun Baton
Best: Anything but Stun Baton if you spec properly into it

really, how come? I always thought the electrocuting mechanic was cool and useful, plus its can benefit from one handed skills.

It's not. The stun baton is OP. You can take on a horde of zombies with it easily without getting hit and without any stat investment. Anyone saying the stun baton is bad just never uses it. No weapon is going to let you bop a direbear to death without getting hit and without pouring a ton of stats into it except the stun baton. It's a one-weapon solution to pretty much any bad situation, and is easily the best defensive weapon in the entire game.

[Amins]

I've tried building a character maxing out intelligence and stun baton and used it exclusively for a full seven days. I put a repulsor mod on it and sent everything flying. It works, but it's just annoying to use. I'm having zombies get thrown all over the place, trying to keep them in control so I can keep doing enough damage to kill them. Why would I go through all that hassle when I can just kill most of them in one shot with anything else?

Also, never used Nerd candy and don't feel like relying on it just to make my weapon useable.

[Amins]

Originally posted by Midas:

Originally posted by smosh:

really, how come? I always thought the electrocuting mechanic was cool and useful, plus its can benefit from one handed skills.

It's not. The stun baton is OP. You can take on a horde of zombies with it easily without getting hit and without any stat investment. Anyone saying the stun baton is bad just never uses it. No weapon is going to let you bop a direbear to death without getting hit and without pouring a ton of stats into it except the stun baton. It's a one-weapon solution to pretty much any bad situation, and is easily the best defensive weapon in the entire game.

Also, no stat investment? The thing barely even electrocutes until you start putting points into it. It isn't even reliable until you max it out.

[MiSFiT77]

Stone Sledgie. It's easily the best weapon for melee early game and once you've upgraded to purplypink and added a few mods it's the best weapon late game as well. And always costs one rock to repair.

[The Waffle that Lurks]

Originally posted by MiSFiT77:

Stone Sledgie. It's easily the best weapon for melee early game and once you've upgraded to purplypink and added a few mods it's the best weapon late game as well. And always costs one rock to repair.

Will agree! I watch a lot of various YTers and Streamers and I always cringe when I see a wooden club or bone knife being used!

[Nimbull]

Steel axe is my bread and butter. Nothing like giving an angry dwarven war cry before chopping off some zombie heads with a flaming two handed axe.

[Horny Rooster]

I always go sledge, but man I am bored of it. I want to try another fun melee weapon, any recommendations?

[MisterSpock]

Speer vs Club (best allrounder)
Also top
with books => brawling
and sledgehammer