Unarmed vs Melee

[barracuda546]

Whats the advantages and disadvantages of unarmed and melee? Or is unarmed just useless compared to melee?

[Reimad]

I heard somewhere unarmed is better for PvP while melee was better against animals.. but I dunno if that was truth. If your melee sword is low q, unarmed may be better.. but I can't see fists winning against Q70+ swords.

[Potjeh]

Melee does more damage and Shield blocks more than any other manoeuvre. Unarmed lets you gain initative, attack and defence faster, and Combat Meditation can reduce the cooldown of your moves. When you got a lot more UA than your opponent it can be brutal, but at similar levels it's modest. Since manoeuvres are passive response to enemy's moves, unarmed is even more useful in group fights. Won't save you if you're badly outnumbered, though.

[Dusk]

Melee combat can be boosted very high with items. Also it's easier to learn, since you don't have to deal with maneuvers. Just use shield block and leave it.

[joojoo1975]

they have given you an accurate description of M VS UA


Basically if you want simple moves that are deadly. AND you have metal. . . and eventually High Q metal Go melee


If you want to have a lot of fancy moves, and do guick damage and be a Saint for helping people. And you dont have access to metal go UA


Currently i'm doing UA. but if i could do it all over again, i would had gone melee.