Is the Fire Axe the best melee?

[fоreskin feta]

Wide arc = most hits in one swing, useful for hordes

[gurim]

Weapon Hit time

Nightstick .650 sec
Machete .675 sec
Katana .750 sec
Golf Club .750 sec
Frying Pan .800 sec
Crowbar .830 sec
Guitar .830 sec
Baseball Bat .850 sec
Cricket Bat .850 sec
Fireman's Axe .910 sec


Large arcs and furthest reach;

Katana
Guitar
Axe
Golf Club
Baseball/Cricket Bat
The remaining melee weapons are all shorter range with smaller arcs;

Crowbar
Frying Pan
Nightstick
Machete
Chainsaw

[fоreskin feta]

Nightstick is somewhat buggy from what I’ve heard
Katana and Machete are the best according to most people
Crowbar is the only weapon that can shred/peel without complete dismemberment
Cricket Bat and Baseball Bat are identical except the Baseball Bat spawns in every map (baseball bat was originally a pre-order bonus)

[gurim]

For me the Baseball Bat and Fireaxe are the best, Machete has a weird swing,

[aDm]

katana and machete are the best for most situations

[Ghøztƒrǝak]

I think the katan is the best.

[Scout]

Very often I find when I swing the katana I hear the sound of it hitting a zombie but it doesn't kill them. This is extremely annoying which is why I stick with the axe. I also rate the nightstick as one of the worst as the range on that is like negative 200, and you can use pretty much any melee to swing as fast as it if you swing, quickly switch to a throwable/medkit/pills, or whatever, and then switch back to the melee to swing again.

[BubblestationCPH]

Fireaxe is the only melee with full horisontal arch iirc. makes it easier to predict were it will land..

[Maur0]

The fireaxe I always choose as a better melee weapon for combat against infected hordes, since its drawing stroke is 16 bits and always horizontally it is easier to finish each infected, even if you make the attack of 360 grade. The only bad thing is its attack speed which is a bit slow.

Anyway my real favorite melee weapon is and always will do it: the katana, I love this weapon and would give anything to have one in real life

In passing I leave a list of the melee weapons that I like, from above the best and down the least best. (according to me)

Fireaxe
Katana
Machete
Crowbar
Electric Guitar
Baseball Bat
Cricket Bat
Golfclub
Frying Pan
Tonfa

[$pirit]

Pretty sure the best weapon is the cs knife.

[J.U.S.T-I.N]

Originally posted by SPIRIT:

Pretty sure the best weapon is the cs knife.

yeah no

[$pirit]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=412007318

Ah yeah. Csgo knife for the win

[supersand]

I like the fire axe, but I think the Katana / Golf Club is the best melee weapon. It also has a large hitbox but also swings much faster

Machete is also up there, its hitbox isn't so great but it is much better then the Tonfa's hitbox while having a similar swing speed, you can hack up a charger / tank really quick with a Machete

[NJ]

For levelling chargers, axe the best.

[peanut]

Chainsaw and Frying Pan are the best melees in my opinion.

[J.U.S.T-I.N]

Originally posted by Particular Fox:

Chainsaw and Frying Pan are the best melees in my opinion.

pan lololol nice one