Melee

Melee is a skill.

“ Increases damage with melee weapons and unarmed attacks and helps you overcome your target's dodge rating. ”

— In-game description

Related Base Ability	Skill Synergies
Strength or Dexterity (whichever is higher)	None

Details

Melee increases your damage and precision with all melee weapons and unarmed.

The formula for damage gained from Melee skill is Base Damage * (1 + 0.7 * Effective Melee Skill / 100). See Precision for details on precision mechanics.

Weapon types

Main types

• Unarmed
• Fist weapons
• Knives
• Swords ^E
• Spears ^E
• Sledgehammers

Other

• Steel Crowbar
• Rolling Pin
• Claws

Related feats

See Category:Melee feats.

Related items

• Tabi Boots decreases AP cost of melee attacks
• Lifting Belt decreases AP cost of sledgehammer attacks
• Metal Armor and Boots can be enhanced with spikes and blades to aid in melee or unarmed combat.
• Category:Melee Weapons