Melee

Melee effects can be used by a player to (almost exclusively) attack another player on the same space as them. Melee is also an inventory category.

Melee Weapons

Basic Blunt

• Hammer
• Holy Hammer (item)
• Hammerhead Shark
• Drunkard's Bar
• Frying Pan
• Torch
• Jackhammer
• Dildo
• Tetsubo
• Tennis Racket
• Mace
• Muscular Tentacle
• Khakkhara
• Bo
• Fish
• Banana Fish

Basic Sharp

• Sword
• Demon Sword
• Swordfish
• Cutlass
• Katana (same-space only)
• Muramasa
• Wooden Stake
• Sanctified Stake
• Serrated Shiv
• Ethereal Dagger
• Chainsaw
• Artendellen
• Lance
• Rapier
• Spear
• Exglitchibur
• Frostmourne
• Riftslasher
• Buster Sword
• Slash
• Tomahawk ([Kill a player on your space] use)
• Axe (Let Me Axe You Something!'s penalty OR Power Gloves use)
• Khakkhara

Melee Only

• Lightsaber

Non-basic Blunt

• Mjölnir
• Odin's Shieldbreaker

Non-basic Sharp

• Claíomh Solais
• Hofud
• Kris Of Empu Gandring
• Kronos' Sickle
• Shamshir-e Zomorrodnegar
• Spear Of Destiny
• The Grim Reaper's Scythe
• The Glory Of Ten Powers

Notes

• The main distinction between blunt and sharp weapons is that blunt weapons can be used to attack Dead players, triggering melee-triggered effects, while sharp weapons cannot.
• Brawler's Brew activates for blunt melee weapons specifically.
• Baseball Bat/Home Run Bat, Bear Boots, Bear Hands, Big Goomba Crusher, Bloodied Claws, Cat/Collarbound Cat, Crocodile, Darth Revan's Mask's Force Telekinesis, Electric Eel, Glove Of Love, Guitar, Hand Buzzer, Heroic Plush Downie, (Metsu) Shoryuken, Murder, One-Trick Pony, Pet Bear with Bear Behavior, Portable Hole, Purgenol, Rattlesnake, Rocket Boots, Seduction, Tatsumaki Senpukyaku/Tatsumaki Zankukyaku, The Power Stone, Whip, and Wolf currently do not trigger any melee-triggered effects.

• Chloroform, Pacman, and THIS IS SPARTA! are not basic melee weapons, though they can trigger Hallucination and Kansei Dorifto.
• Bear Form: Maul, Snake Form: Venomous Bite, and Pegasus Boots are not basic melee weapons, though they can trigger Spiked Protection.
• Hammer Of Justice is not a basic melee weapon, though it can trigger the Holy Hammer skill's Class Talent.

• Non-basic melee attacks cannot be blocked with a Shield, Thick Hide or evasive effects like Hallucination.

Related

• Auto Hammer
• Power Gloves

Melee-Triggered Effects

The below effects activate when a melee effect (of an appropriate type) would occur. They are listed in the order they trigger in, from top to bottom.

Melee Protection

• Death (stops sharp attacks)
• Dancing On Dance (evade)
• Airbending (evade)
• Kansei Dorifto (evade)
• Hallucination (evade)
• Hobo Bodyguard (block)
• Any Shield's normal Passive Effect (block)
• Shield Mastery (vs. Holy Hammer) (modify)
• Pamela's Sweater's Passive Effect (evade)
• Thick Hide (block)
• Any Shield's Passive Effect against Tetsubo (modify)

Melee Effect

• The melee effect itself triggers here.

Success-Triggered

• Brawler's Brew
• Holy Hammer skill (Class Talent)
• Bracers Of Bladesinging/Charged Bracers Of Bladesinging
• The Black Stuff
• Handegg
• Gagged
• Bloop
• Gimp Suit
• Woo The Raccoon
• Fizzgig
• Stormwracked Kilt
• Space Hopper
• Race: Revenant
• Nuclear Reactor (chance to become Damaged)

Contact-Triggered

• Suika's Strength
• Spiked Protection
• Jeweled Protection
• Algid Revenge
• Malevolent Maw
• Corona

• Wooden Stake/Sanctified Stake's theft/Sanctified Stake's Curse removal and Angelic Wings granting effect/Cutlass's theft/Katana's 2-space radius attack/Muramasa's 5-space radius attack/Riftslasher's theft/Khakkhara's theft

Notes

• If any form of melee protection (excluding Shield Mastery) triggers, no melee protection or melee effect or success-triggered effects later in the order trigger.

• Note that the Incapacitation portion of Shield Mastery is not a form of melee protection.

• If Shield Mastery (vs. Holy Hammer) triggers, no other melee protection triggers, but success-triggered effects can still activate. Also, Holy Hammer can still activate its melee effect with the modified knockback.
• Contact-triggered effects can still activate if any form of melee protection triggers excluding ones which "evade".
• If there is a Paladin Hammer Fight, no melee-triggered effects activate.
• If there is a Lightsaber Battle between 2 Lightsabers, only the winner is treated as attacking, and only the loser is treated as being attacked with relation to melee-triggered effects.
• All melee-triggered effects can trigger when an appropriate melee item/skill is used standardly or with Power Gloves or with Auto Hammer (excluding when Auto Hammer's Auto Jackhammer or the aforementioned Paladin Hammer Fight triggers.)
• If Tetsubo destroys a raised Shield, any contact-triggered effect the Shield has cannot activate.
• If Auto Hammer's Auto Jackhammer triggers and destroys an upgraded Shield, any contact-triggered effect the Shield has cannot activate for either the initial hit or the Jackhammer hit despite such effects normally being able to activate against a standardly used Jackhammer. (This is likely an oversight by the developers.)

• If Auto Hammer's Auto Jackhammer triggers due to a Wooden Stake being blocked, the Stake theft effect still triggers after the Shield is destroyed. Auto Jackhammer can also trigger success-triggered effects.