Who here uses a lot of melee?

Games Other Halo
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People call me a n00b for this, yet my stats show that I’ve gained most of my kills from melee. lol. Is it just me who prefers to defeat an opponent with a fist?

I’m a very weak teenager to be honest, but can pack a mean punch. The chances of me getting into a fight right now is with someone is up there with the world will turn to cheese, but I have punched people before which have stopped fights.

Reasons why I love melee:
-You don’t have to waste ammo
-Two hits can kill a Spartan or Elite

Places where I think melee could be improved:
-Sometimes you think you’re in range of meleeing someone but you’re not so you just punch the air which gives your opponent time to kill you. They should maybe get your reticule to glow some colour, like purple let’s say.

What do you think about melee? Tell me your thoughts here.

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Depends how you classify it.

Someone went on quite the tantrum’d tirade on me for “doing nothing but punching people” b/c my Service Record showed my TOD was Melee.

Little do they forget that there are 5 elements that enact Melee:

Punch
Assassination (yep, counts on it’s own)
Shotgun
Sword
Hammer

In the beginning, I played a LOT of Living Dead. Then I started playing Grifball a lot with a buddy. My favorite loadout is Sword/Shotty and I truly love assassinations.

So in a sense, the Kleenex Kid was semi-right in that I like “CQC” weapons but I don’t attempt to punch every enemy in my view.

3

I don’t punch very much now that they removed melee bleedthrough, makes ar + melee suck so bad.

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> People call me a n00b for this, yet my stats show that I’ve gained most of my kills from melee. lol. Is it just me who prefers to defeat an opponent with a fist?
>
> I’m a very weak teenager to be honest, but can pack a mean punch. The chances of me getting into a fight right now is with someone is up there with the world will turn to cheese, but I have punched people before which have stopped fights.
>
> Reasons why I love melee:
> -You don’t have to waste ammo
> -Two hits can kill a Spartan or Elite
>
> Places where I think melee could be improved:
> -Sometimes you think you’re in range of meleeing someone but you’re not so you just punch the air which gives your opponent time to kill you. They should maybe get your reticule to glow some colour, like purple let’s say.
>
> What do you think about melee? Tell me your thoughts here.

I love my Spartan Fists-of-Fury!!!

5

Still powerful, but I’m glad it’s harder to get melee kills in Reach.

I remember the top total medals earned in Halo 3 were Beatdowns, and they immensely outnumbered the next highest medal counts.

6

Melee is only used for close range. If you only have a midrange and long range weapon, pummels is the way to go.

7

I barely have any pummels, only 37,000+ of them. lol

I gained most of them by playing Grifball, but I do pummel occasionally. I prefer a more rifle approach with the DMR/Sniper.

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I don’t, though it says I do because of grifball. I prefer to use as much ammo as I can, what I really miss is the usefullness of the plasma rifle and other similar covenant weapons.

9

9 months free of excessive meleeing and my stats have only gone up (K/D from 1.08 to ~1.4).

10

No, this is a First Person Shooter, not a boxing game. Melee should only be used as a last resort type thing, when you have no grenades and low on ammo.

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> No, this is a First Person Shooter, not a boxing game.

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My TOD is DMR, but I get called a noob when I get in a double melee… My response is still, they deserved it if they put themselves in the position to be double melee’d and didn’t counter.