Who Would Be Your Melee Frame?

[izzatuw]

Well, the title explains what this thread's about. So who would be your go to melee frame?

Although most people would use Valkyr or Volt for higher DPS, I like using a Trinity. She can keep your health and energy up for you and your teammates. She can also make enemies inflict procs to other enemies invading the proc comepletely sending it to someone else.

[H.Katsura_999]

Valkyr because that @$$.

[ZirilanOfTheClaw]

Ash, and not because the Blade Storm. Teleport and Smokescreen are very good skill to use on melee combat.

[izzatuw]

Valkyr because that @$$.

Well, someone's being a little too honest here. Wonder what Snake's reaction be.

[BrazilianJoe]

Loki FTW

[-CM-Tiffany]

Valkyr or Saryn

[Xaelon]

Zephyr.  But then again I use her for everything.  If I made a dedicated melee frame it would probably have to be Valkyr, because of her warcry and how it buffs melee speed to stupid levels.

[Luizgu]

Some people might not believe me but I use a lot ember for melee. I get my orthos prime with fire damage and I can survive until 40 level enemies.

I spawn accelerant in every enemy group, but if I don't I die by the simplest enemy. I use life strike to heal my self and world on fire if is too much enemies.

Mirage is good too for melee, but I haven't used her yet on high leveled missions.

[Rakshal]

Valkyr because Warcry is to damn fun not to use.

[Kinperor]

Loki, Oberon, Saryn, Valkyr, Frost, Rhino and Ash. I have a hard time choosing.

[Noxramus]

Probably Loki or Nyx, because Invisibility or Radial disarm and Chaos or Absorb.

[Petersheikah]

Loki, Excalibur, Trinity and Ember are my melee frames

[Sixty5]

Ash is my favourite melee frame, since he synergises well with Berserker, and doesn't really have any limitations when it comes to the weapons he can use. Teleport is also an excellent tool for keeping your combo going, jumping between groups of enemies and such.

[kuri99]

Right now its kind of a toss up between Valkyr and Oberon. Valkyrs a little more effective at it but Oberon has more group synergy. Im kind of playing with the idea of turning saryn into a melee frame though. I need to do something with her and I think a melee saryn would be interesting with Contagion and molt. Miasma would also be useful with destroying groups. Then theres venom which, I used to think was alright with a good shotgun but now feel is pointless since my shotguns tend to 1 shot anything anyway. Why waste that 25 energy on casting venom and then shooting something only to kill it when I can just shoot it and kill it?

 

Anyway, melee Saryn. Yeah that could be interesting especially with other toxic weapons like the dual ichors or karyst

[tveeggad]

I'll say Saryn. Like with everything else.

[Sannidor]

Volt + speed up, melee buff aura, Berserker = my favorite Jat Kittag build.

 

Takes a while to get use to such insane speed up. Mix it up with his first ability or channeling and you play a different game for a while.

[thececilmaster]

As was mentioned before, Ash is amazing if you know how to use Smokescreen and Teleport well. Smokescreen has a very nice radial stumble effect, and Teleport allows you to pull off counterattacks/sneak attacks on the enemy you teleport to (which is very useful against heavies). Ash also has a very nice base health, allowing him to reach highest health levels available to any frame (tied with Saryn and Zephyr), which is very useful if you throw a Life Strike on your melee.

I built my Ash for efficiency (who need duration?), and I use smokescreen for its stumble primarily (though those two seconds of invisibility I still have are rather nice), and often solo T4s with melee only.

[Sumarbrandr]

Volt. A full speed build (max blind rage) with a fast weapon, reflex guard, flow, quick thinking and redirection can bring you easily to T4 Survivor 1h. 

[Allenaattori]

For me Loki , Ash, Trinity... Every frame is viable for melee.

[ThunderZsolt]

i go with volt or valkyr, equip any weapon that can have the cleaving whirlwind stance, and then spin them to death. too bad that i miss one part of the scindo prime, otherwise i could go completely melee only anywhere

[TenzoZero]

poor excal not many people with him ....... excalibur FTW ! he's basically named after a sword , he is meant to be a melee frame , excal !!

[Archeyef]

I like Nyx. Shocking, I know.

 

Chaos helps make short work of enemies, and absorb is good for when things get hairy. Loki is good too, though. RD+Invis, use Decoy to draw all the enemies to one spot after RD.

[Ritchel]

for me its ash.

 

manual teleporting is like hurling yourself to the enemy. the hitting them with a finisher (THANK LOTUS FOR THIS BUFF)

 

your basically a bullet. your whole body.

 

also his health and shields and armor. invisibility and emergency bladestorms.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Ritchel

[Shehriazad]

I use a lot of frames for melee (I actually rarely ever carry primary weapons).

Nyx - Chaos makes meleeing easy as most of them will be busy with other stuff
Loki - Stealth damage, self explanatory
Valkyr - Can do instant finishers after the shout...the ult is a nice clutch ability
Saryn - Underwhelming in many areas...but she's super tanky, got a melee boost and an effect cleanse/aggro delete


 

[darkness222]

meh rhino prime as soon as I can download this gane again and internet doesn't disconnect and loose my place in the download