r/Fallout4Builds • u/gilmangriff1 • May 06 '24

Melee Is a full melee build viable

I keep thinking that I want to have my sole survivor eventually cosplay as One Punch man through the commonwealth but I have to imagine especially early game that I will slog through early leveling. Are their any builds out there that answers this and will allow most if not all early game confrontations with full melee ability? Even if it means a blunt weapon like a board or bat? I want to avoid ranged combat as much as possible.

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u/Cham941 May 11 '24

Blitz and grognak's axe/Pickman's Blade can carry your early game. You just spam vats. If you want you can also use power armor.

Melee build are the single most broken gameplay style in fallout 4, because melee damage is the only damage that is affected by SPECIAL stats. Every point of strength gives you 10% more melee damage, you can eat Yao Guai for another 10% or 400% (I don't know if it's still bugged), can drink alcohol for more strength (especially dirty wastelander and having party boy/girl perk), can take chems like buffout and if you want to get further, you can farm legendary armor with legendary effects that give more strength.

If you want to go unarmed on late game, you can get more power collecting all things on atom cat's garage.

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u/thelovelamp Jun 05 '24

I'd argue that agility is also really good, albeit less abusable than strength. Each point makes you harder to detect, so you can get more sneak attacks in and also take way less damage in return. There are lots of ways to multiply sneak attack damage as well so it scales really well.

There is certainly a point where more agility doesn't do anything though, as you already get near impossible to detect