Anti melee item

[rikukri25]

I know there is parrying but sometimes there is massive team fights when you don't have enough time to parry, so if there was item which gives you auto parry for first melee hit with some type of cooldown, it would be great.

 

[kotkowski]

If item like that existed - it needs to be at least 3k item, and that blocked melee doesn't stun.

+ That'd be broken vs guardians (you can parry guardians, yes) and some characters (Bebop's uppercut counts as melee)

 

[acidente]

Parry stuns your enemy, so such an item would need to remove the stun and only block damage...

 

[Calavontis]

There is already steel skin...

 

[kotkowski]

METAL skin is active, he wants passive

 

[Jokerx71]

If item like that existed - it needs to be at least 3k item, and that blocked melee doesn't stun.

+ That'd be broken vs guardians (you can parry guardians, yes) and some characters (Bebop's uppercut counts as melee)

You can parry guardians?! Like the ground stomp?

 

[kitty]

Why? Meleeing is already objectively worse than just shooting your gun. Either buy Metal Skin, parry, or walk backwards. Also you can already take reduced damage from melee by purchasing one of the many items that provide bullet resist.

 

[acidente]

You can parry guardians?! Like the ground stomp?

Yes, you can. But the ground stomp is not from guardians it's from walkers and I believe that those you can't

 

[multiplemike]

definitely need an anti melee item, very tired of abrams missing, or worse, intentionally missing a melee when you time parry right to put parry on CD and just get punched to death afterward

I want an item that disables or slows down or reduces range of melee charges, it's way too strong on abrams

 

[ddd09ish1]

Why? Meleeing is already objectively worse than just shooting your gun. Either buy Metal Skin, parry, or walk backwards. Also you can already take reduced damage from melee by purchasing one of the many items that provide bullet resist.

all im saying is, a heavy melee attack is always faster then reloading
#nevernerfmeleecharge

 

[kotkowski]

definitely need an anti melee item, very tired of abrams missing, or worse, intentionally missing a melee when you time parry right to put parry on CD and just get punched to death afterward

I want an item that disables or slows down or reduces range of melee charges, it's way too strong on abrams

Just for sure - you know that Bullet ressist decreases melee damage?

 

[Spektrum]

definitely need an anti melee item, very tired of abrams missing, or worse, intentionally missing a melee when you time parry right to put parry on CD and just get punched to death afterward

I want an item that disables or slows down or reduces range of melee charges, it's way too strong on abrams

I honestly think that is more of a Abram having to outsmart his enemies unless he wants to get stunned for a good couple of seconds that is enough to burst him down real good. I think there is a good amount of active and passives in game that can counter melee.

 

[SardineS]

I agree that currently anti melee items are needed, as currently the only interaction in many cases vs. melee builds is 'did I manage to hit the parry or not' - where if your parry is wasted it means that the opponent will freely hit you with their long range Heavy attacks. Sometimes a parry gets wasted because your opponent missed their melee attack by accident, which is especially frustrating since it means that being bad rewarded them. Even 'Return Fire' does not return melee attacks even though melee damage is still reduced by bullet resistance (and is therefore classified as 'bullet damage' on the receiving end), so that doesn't help as an anti-melee item.