Melee Weapons

Melee Weapons is a Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout Tactics and Fallout: New Vegas skill.

In Van Buren and J.E. Sawyer's Fallout Role-Playing Game, it is renamed to simply Melee.

It determines your combat effectiveness with all melee weapons.

Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics
Initial Level: Starting Melee is equal to 55% + (1% x the average of your Strength and Agility). Average characters will have a 60% skill.

In Fallout 2, you start out with only a Spear, making Melee Weapons a highly valuable skill from the beginning.

Fallout 3
Weapons using this skill are specifically the Police Baton, Chinese Officer's Sword, Combat Knife, Lead Pipe, Ripper, Rolling Pin, Knife, Switchblade, Tire Iron, Repellent Stick, Baseball Bat, Nail Board, Pool Cue, Sledgehammer, Super Sledge, Shishkebab, AutoAxe, Axe, Shovel, and any unique variants of these weapons. As this skill increases, so does the damage inflicted with all of these weapons, both in and out of V.A.T.S. mode. The Melee Weapons skill also allows you to use a melee weapon to block an attack; the higher the skill, the more damage is absorbed.

The only specific Fallout 3 Perks for Melee weapons are Little Leaguer and Ninja although other Perks like Toughness or Better Criticals are important for building an effective melee fighter.

In choosing a melee weapon, don't focus too heavily on which weapon has the highest damage. A fast weapon like a Combat Knife or Ripper can make more attacks in a given length of time than a heavy Sledgehammer, potentially generating more damage in a shorter amount of time. Refer to the DPS stat on the Fallout 3 weapons page. More attacks also means more chances to stagger an opponent so they can't attack back as quickly, reducing the damage you take. Shishkebab is generally considered the best melee weapon available as it has the highest base DPS, which is only improved further when combined with Pyromaniac. However, Jack can, depending on whether or not you have a high base critical chance and/or the Ninja/Better Criticals/Finesse perks deal an astounding amount of damage far superior to that of the Shishkebab in a damage-per-second sense. Jack is especially effective when performing a sneak attack critical hit, since these are known to instantly splatter most enemies.

The player can maximize this skill by collecting all Grognak the Barbarian books, provided that the player has the Comprehension perk.

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