By pressing the melee key (by default, Q), you can execute a Light Melee. By holding the melee key, you can continue winding up your punch to execute a Heavy Melee.

• Heavy Melee is available both on the ground and in the air.
• Heavy Melee takes no bars of Stamina to execute.
• There are three phases to a Heavy Melee: windup, lunge, and recovery.

• Windup Phase:
  • If you are on the ground, the windup phase stops you at 0 u/s while you wind up your punch.
  • If in the air, you will continue to move at the same speed that you were at before.
• Lunge Phase:
  • You will begin to move forwards in the character's forward direction and accelerate to a peak of 746.67 u/s on the ground and 793.6 u/s in the air.
  • In the lunge phase, you have a hitbox around and a little in front of your fist that deals a base damage of 125.
  • With the Weapon item Melee Charge, peak speed is 1045 u/s on the ground and 1116.27 u/s while in the air.
  • Heavy Melee is fastest near the end of the lunge phase.
• Recovery Phase:
  • You quickly decelerate down to 0 u/s.
  • Most movement tech that involves Heavy Melee seeks to cancel the recovery phase, as this is what slows you down.

• A full Heavy Melee takes 1.25 seconds.
• The windup phase takes 0.3667 seconds (22/60 ticks).
• The lunge phase takes 0.6 seconds (36/60 ticks).
• The recovery phase takes 0.2833 seconds (17/60 ticks).

Certain items have the +Heavy Melee Distance statistic, which changes the distance that your Heavy Melee goes.

• A base grounded Heavy Melee travels 238.5 units forward.
• You can extend the distance that a Heavy Melee goes by obtaining the Weapon item Melee Charge, which extends the lunge by 95.59 units, for a total of 334.09 units.

• The direction in which you Heavy Melee can be changed in the lunge by moving the camera. Turning is completely unrestricted; you can turn however much you want. This can be abused to carry over momentum or turn extremely tight corners.
• In the air, you can further change the direction you punch in by moving the camera downward. You are able to Heavy Melee slightly upwards (~5°).
• The damage that a Heavy Melee deals is dependent on the character; all characters have a base Heavy Melee damage of 116, except for:
  • Yamato: Base Heavy Melee damage of 128.
  • Ivy: Base Heavy Melee damage of 99.

• Heavy Melee damage can be increased by buying items that have the +Melee Damage stat. Heavy Melee damage also scales with Weapon damage.

• You can cancel a Heavy Melee by mantling.
• Heavy Melee can be used as a kind of pseudo-dash while climbing up walls, since it stops momentum in the lunge phase.