Overwhelming Difference

[Lammy]

The sad truth is, Melee without any sort of distance closing or teleport will always struggle against kite.

It's a build situation, others who have several gap closers and time things right do well against these certain situations.

[Jumpy]

pericles didn't have trouble winning as a melee

[Hated]

did you die and make a forum thread

[Detective100]

Melee focused builds generally need to be more well aware of their surrounding, timing, and positioning in order to succeed than mages, at least from my experience. Some builds can counter melee though (Looking at you, ground-AoE spam builds), and CC can effectively shut down a melee user if he has no means to either work around them or remove them.

Some might argue against it, but melee can require good understanding of both the game and your match ups, in order to play around them for better chances to win. (Saying it as someone who played armed and had to rely on skills and tactics to win, and is now a mage that mostly just lets his build do the work   )


P.S: Unarmed is in a bad position right now though, on that I can agree...

[spellzer]

"but melee can require good understanding of both the game and your match ups"

And other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself.

[Megasnail]

Melee is fine, seems an interesting post though.
You seem to be neglecting Physical as a stat when talking about reaching over 300 Power, which melee's should all do, comfortably.

[Avee]

Melee and Mage is fine.

I may not beat the best mages at my level with any sort of consistency, but I can beat them, but as has been mentioned in this thread a good chunk of my hotbar is just ensuring the motherfuckers can’t run away. Hell even my bladestyle is designed just to ensure these kiting motherfuckers can’t just lmaodash away.

Why?

Because I’m a trash can melee and I know it, so I build around it. Know your limits, and keep trying to get better based on what you’re bad with.

Happens to the best of us champ, now get back in there slugger.

[Koriv]

There are melees who beat me (Like Avee's char and Pericles) and there are melees who I beat. It's not so much an overwhelming difference, but a matter of how ones build is put together, no build is going to be perfect and unstoppable against every opponent.

[TheProwlingScorcher]

Overwhelming, almost like spacebar + fatal to tp across the screen..

Did they patch that animation cancel yet btw?

[flipper23]

through the power of maths and metabuilding, i have found out that you can reach over 460 worth of power (counting phys) as a melee and that, without using any cast buffs, it's just base.

don't worry, melee is still very very strong, 

i'd say its in a good place right now

edit: (and that's an overwhelming dif!)