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Yes and no, kinda sorta since her melees get an armor penalty and this is being really really pedantic, I know, I'm sorry There's other kits that can do more damage depending on what you spec for, especially if you like min/maxing. The Shadow will do ~6100 heavy melee to armor if you take Fitness 6b and ~6100 to shield/barrier w/ 6A. A couple of the blue beauties will out damage her against armor since they get a bonus, and the Huntress comes close with ~5400 to armor/shield/barrier. All these take top row in fitness (except the Shadow taking 6B), Shotgun Omni-Blade, Berserker Package, and that Kalence isn't lying to me :

Shadow

Valkyrie Just ekes out against armor

Huntress

Good points. I'd forgotten about the QFI's armour penalty, but given that the melee Shadow is one of my favourite characters I really shouldn't have overlooked her - those Dragoons won't decapitate themselves!!

I've never specced an Asari for melee, mainly because of the whole vulnerability thing. My Asarigasms are generally restricted to between waves. 

Note to self: Respec Valkyrie and Huntress at earliest opportunity.

Neither have I, exactly why I said I was being really pedantic I will say I've seen ctc91 run a Tech Armor detonating, Cryo Acolyte only, heavy melee Valkyrie and he absolutely ripped with it.

But it's soooooo difficult Black Knight Great Sword ftw!

Git gud is the other name of DS.Did you beat it? I prefer claymore(for those who don't know,it's not a ME shotgun,but a great sword in DS),but in this game there isn't better or worse weapons,just prefernces.

Believe or not i absolutely love DS series and the most of the DS-like games. For me they are fun and enjoyable.The gameplay is, as you already pointed out ,brilliant. Well i raged during some boss fights when i was doing 1 level soul run,but it was just a challenge and did it for science's sake. One of my fav kits is Shaman and i've never builded him mele focused. In fact i don't have a single mele-based character. That said i've done few plat mele solos and only half enjoyed them.In other words,the mele is not my cup of tea. Will rephrase Grunt,i don't need a mele ,i have ammo.

Wtf i told in the last few posts.I don't like mele.Alfonse pls.

You're not the first person here to slag off the Shadow, and I daresay you won't be the last. I wouldn't be so rude as to hint at L2P issues with any of you, but I find her absolutely brilliant to play, skipping Electric Slash and rocking an Omniblade Piranha with AP ammo - admittedly much more frequently on Gold than Plat. I also play her (uniquely) with a Duration Cloak, because the damage bonus  alternative is largely overkill, given that she can OHK on-host Phantoms already with Duration Cloak, and also because it's nice to be able to cap all the devices without breaking a sweat and reviving those poor pugs.    I'd say she's perfect for Gold - almost indestructible in fact (twitchy SS finger notwithstanding - Ravagers/Abombs/Sync-Killers), while there are more obvious, easier ways of enduring Platinum.

As for purging Fortification on the KroSol, you're right, and I should have acknowledged that. I'm used to toggling it regularly and don't find it interferes much with Carnage tbh. But I also agree with you that the Krentinel is the best (and by far my favourite) pure melee character in the game, and by extension my favourite character. He is a God.

that's a fair point, I've just never been crazy about Fortification-based melee builds. And my KroSol usually gets a Power Amp instead of a Cyclonic, so its genuinely difficult to melee anything before it dies from Inferno cheese. That's not to say he doesn't melee stuff- he's a Krogan, of course he does! But its the least essential to the core playstyle, relative to the other Krogan. But this is almost entirely personal preference, so no question that YMMV

Here's the build I use if you're interested, it's the only infiltrator I take Duration Cloak and Bonus Power for that double cloak SS. It's my gold build for her and I'd love to take a PA, but having 675/675 for a melee kit is incredibly...squishy and frustrating. It's a melee kit so I take...suprise! ...a Venom. I've also used Wraith and Crusader [damage Cloak here], but the Raider is probably better if you're going to be in melee range. I know obbie1984 runs her on plat and doesn't really have any issues and I think he specs into ES too and uses melee quite often.

One of my three most played classes. If you're going to play her for melee on PC, this is IMO the best build for team games, alternatively you can skip Electric Trash completely and go for more WD but I prefer to keep it for stunning, detonating and clearing swarmers. 2.71s SS recharge allows to SS->shoot/dodge->SS without waiting for anything. If you want to play her for weapons and use SS only as a mobility mean then BW/Crusader are going to be better but then it's generally better to choose something with debuffs or grenades and move on the map carefully. She's not the highest scoring class on Platinum but if the team takes care of bosses, you can hunt for expensive targets and deplete lots of wave budgets.

Mah Shadow. Tried her with duration cloak. Never got to make the most out of it tbh. So this is the build I ultimately settled for. Except for the shotty. I'm trolling triggering you on this one