Melee damage values

[Lanzagranadas]

There's a guide for RE5 listing damage values for all melee moves, such as Chris' Uppercut doing 400, Sheva's Impale 800, or Wesker's Cobra Strike 1200. (Default firepower of a base handgun is 150)

Just wondering, does anything like that for RE4 melee moves exist? I'd like to know how much damage they do besides the obvious instant kill moves like Hunk's Neckbreaker and Krauser's mutated arm.

[Uzi Master]

Not that I know of, very little reason to bother honestly. Melee attacks are more useful for knocking enemes down than it is damaging them most of the time, and there's no incentive to getting melee kills in the mercenaries like 5.

[talgaby]

Al melee moves do the same damage, but some can carry an insta-kill attribute (like Leon's suplex or HUNK's neck breaker).

[Lanzagranadas]

↑ Pretty sure they don't. Leon's Suplex isn't allways instant kill, I've seen enemies surviving it from time to time. Wesker's Thrust Punch isn't ohko either, it just deals a lot of damage, which will kill any regular Ganado/Iluminado even at full health, but it doesn't ohko Bella Sisters unlike Hunk's Neckbreaker which does actually kill anything that touches. Krauser's double kick seems also stronger than Leon's, at least when both kicks hit.

[EX0m0nd0]

Maybe you have to look into the official guide, or maybe there is one mentioned in gamefaqs.

[Lanzagranadas]

I've looked into the Bradygames guide but didn't find anything. Maybe the Japanese guide has something but I don't have it. Only this on Gamefaqs so far but nobody bothered listing sources so it might be not 100% accurate:

Kick (Leon): 1.5 (auto-decapitates when enemy's HP drops below a certain number)
Suplex: 3.6 to Zealots, 4.4 to Soldiers (Decapitates on about a 30% chance).
(Non-upgraded Handgun damage: 1.0)
Knife damage went apparently from 1.4 on GC to 1.7 on all ports.

It makes sense that Leon gains a stronger melee attack since so many powerful weapons become available once he reaches the castle to compensate for the HP boost enemies get as well.