Melee Weapons

Melee weapons are weapons featured in the Call of Duty series. Melee weapons are usually used in close-quarters combat situations, due to their very limited range. The most common weapon is the knife, but later games have featured alternate melee weapons including machetes and the sickle. Call of Duty Online, Black Ops III and all games afterwards have their own class of standalone melee weapons, usually available as secondary weapons. However, the riot shield in Call of Duty: Online, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare II is in the primary slot of the melee category, and the melee weapons of Modern Warfare Remastered have their own selection slot.
==Pre-Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare==
Prior to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, there was no standard melee weapon. In Call of Duty and Call of Duty: United Offensive, the player was able to melee enemies with the butt of their primary weapon or pistol whip with their handgun. In addition, players could also melee with their grenades, satchel charges, and binoculars. However, enemies were difficult to kill because of the short range, inaccuracy, and low damage of many weapons.
Call of Duty 2 limited the players' melee attack to only their primary weapons and pistols. Call of Duty 3 brought back the ability for the player to melee with whatever weapon or equipment they had. The player still couldn't melee with a knife though, and were only able to use it once in the mission "The Crossroads" during a scripted CQC event.
==Post-Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare==
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the first game where the player was able to melee with a knife, as well as the first to completely remove the ability to melee with whatever the player was holding. The knife has served as the default melee weapon for all games succeeding Modern Warfare, however, Call of Duty: World at War and later games also debuted alternate melee weapons the player could attack with. Many of these are unable to be used in multiplayer, rather they are only usable in Campaign and Zombies mode.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 introduced Riot Shields. and the Tactical Knife attachment to multiplayer. Riot Shields protect the player, and require two hits to kill. Tactical Knifes are faster than the standard melee and are used with a pistol drawn. 
Call of Duty: Black Ops introduced the Ballistic Knife to multiplayer, a secondary capable of not only a one-hit melee attack, but also being able to fire a spring loaded projectile. 
Call of Duty: Black Ops II introduced the combat knife as a replacement to a standard secondary since the Pick 10 System allowed the player not to have one. This made it the first instance of an equip able, singular knife in Call of Duty multiplayer. 
Ghosts gave the player the option to equip a knife, though only as a primary, and automatically gave the player the knife when removing their primary weapon from their class. The player is unable to swap to anything when no secondary is equipped. 
Advanced Warfare had removed the standard knife animation from the melee function, though the player could still perform a one hit kill through Exo Melee. The combat knife is equipped only when a primary or secondary is removed similar to Black Ops II. 
==Post-Call of Duty Black Ops III==
Black Ops III included knifeless, weapon drawn, melee animations with reduced damage by default, while adding additional secondary melee weapons besides the standard knife. When no secondary is equipped, the player simply takes out their fists and deal the same amount of damage as their standard attack. All sequential games afterward no longer included a one hit knife as their default weapon drawn attack in standard multiplayer modes, and melee weapons were allocated to their own category tabs. 
Despite this, the throwing knife in Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare II, and Modern Warfare III allows the player to perform the traditional knife melee with their weapon drawn as long as they haven't thrown the knife. The old style knife animation has also remained consistent in most Zombies modes. 
For the first time, Black Ops 6 includes melee weapons as an additional third weapon slot besides the primary and secondary. 
==List of Melee Weapons in Call of Duty==
===Pre-Modern Warfare===
Note: Only a few weapons are shown, although all weapons are able to be used as melee weapons.
Thompson Melee CoD2.png|Thompson Melee
Kar98k Melee CoD2.png|Kar98k Melee
M1911 Melee CoD.png|M1911 Melee
Cod 3 knife.png|Knife seen in "The Crossroads" (Unusable)
===Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare===
Knife MW.png|Knife
===Call of Duty: World at War===
CoDWAWknife.png|Knife
Bayonet US.png|Marine Raiders M1 Bayonet
Bayonet Russian.png|Red Army Bayonet
Bayonet Japanese.png|Imperial Japanese Army Bayonet
Bowie Knife 3rd Person BO.png|Bowie Knife (Zombies Only)
BRAAAINS... 1st Person WaW.png|BRAAAINS... (Unusable unless Accessed through Console Commands)
Reznov's Machete WaW.png|Machete Used by Reznov (Unusable)
Katana model WaW.png|Katana (Unusable)
====Call of Duty: World at War: Final Fronts====
Type 99 3rd person WaWFF.png|Bayonet
===Call of Duty: Zombies===
Codzombiesknifeicon.png|Knife
Shovel.jpg|Shovel
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2===
Knife MW2.png|Knife
USP .45 Tactical Knife MW2.png|Tactical Knife
Riot Shield menu icon MW2.png|Riot Shield
Bloody Combat Knife render MW2.PNG|Combat Knife (Campaign Only)
Ice Pick third person MW2.png|Ice Axe (Campaign Only)
CQB Bayonet menu icon MWR.png|CQB Bayonet (Campaign Remastered Only)
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized===
*Knife
===Modern Warfare 2: Ghost===
Simon Riley Kill MW2G.png|Knife
===Call of Duty: Black Ops===
KnifeBlackOpsMultiplayer.png|Knife
Ballistic Knife menu icon BO.png|Ballistic Knife
====Campaign Only====
Prison Knife model BO.png|Prison Knife
Karambit Knife.png|Karambit Knife
SOG Knife BO.png|SOG Knife
Hands BO.png|Hands
Garrote Wire model BO.png|Garrote Wire
Tomahawk third person BO.png|Hatchet
====Zombies Only====
Bowie Knife 3rd Person BO.png|Bowie Knife
Sickle-Ascension.png|Sickle
Katana model WaW.png|Katana (Unusable)
BRAAAINS... 1st Person WaW.png|BRAAAINS... (Unusuable)
Danny Trejo Cutscene BO.png|Machete (Unusable)
===Call of Duty: Black Ops (Nintendo DS)===
Knife blopsDS.png|Knife
===Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies===
Knife logo BOZ.jpg|Knife
===Find Makarov===
Soap Knife FM.png|Knife
===Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish===
FMOK Soap Knife.png|Knife
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3===
MW3-e3-knife.png|Knife
MP412 Tactical Knife MW3.png|Tactical Knife
Riot Shield menu icon MW3.png|Riot Shield
Combat Knife held by Price Stronghold MW3.png|Combat Knife (Unusable)
Machete Wielding African Militia MW3.png|Machete (Unusable)
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance===
Mw3ds knife icon.png|Knife
===Call of Duty: Black Ops II===
Knife Woods BOII.png|Knife
Combat Knife menu icon BOII.png|Combat Knife
Ballistic Knife Create-a-Class BOII.png|Ballistic Knife
Assault Shield Menu Icon BOII.png|Assault Shield
Tac-45 Tactical Knife BOII.png|Tactical Knife
====Campaign Only====
Spring Knife Create-a-Class BOII.png|Spring Knife
Machete model BOII.png|Machete
Pulwar Sword model BOII.png|Pulwar Sword
Combatant Supression Knuckles BOII.png|Combatant Suppression Knuckles
Karambit Knife.png|Karambit Knife (Unusable)
SOG Knife model BOII.png|SOG Knife (Unusable)
L85s Bayonets Old Wounds BOII.jpg|Bayonet (Unusable)
====Zombies Only====
Bowie Knife 3rd Person BO.png|Bowie Knife
Galvaknuckles HUD icon BOII.png|Galvaknuckles
Assault Shield Zombies BOII.png|Zombie Shield
Turned gameplay BOII.png|BRAAAINS... (Turned)
Shiv BOII.png|Shiv
Silver Spoon model BOII.png|Silver Spoon
Golden Spork model BOII.png|Golden Spork
One Inch Punch BOII Zombies.png|One Inch Punch
Staff of Ice Origins menu icon BOII.png|Ull's Arrow (Upgraded Staff of Ice)
Staff of Fire Origins menu icon BOII.png|Kagutsuchi's Blood (Upgraded Staff of Fire)
Staff of Wind Origins menu icon BOII.png|Boreas' Fury (Upgraded Staff of Wind)
Staff of Lightning Origins menu icon BOII.png|Kimat's Bite (Upgraded Staff of Lightning)
Takeo origins intro.jpg|Katana (Unusable)
===Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified===
*Knife
*Ballistic Knife
*Tactical Knife 
===Call of Duty: Strike Team===
*Riot Shield
===Call of Duty Online===
====Standalone melee weapons====
Riot Shield menu icon CoDO.png|Riot Shield (primary weapon)
Ballistic Knife model CoDO.png|Ballistic Knife
Bloody Combat Knife render MW2.PNG|Combat Knife
Katana menu icon CoDO.png|Katana
Lucille model CoDO.png|Lucille
Nine Ring Sword menu icon CoDO.png|Nine Ring Sword
Sword of Freedom menu icon CoDO.png|Sword of Freedom
====Other melee weapons====
Knife CoDO.png|Knife
Tactical Knife menu icon CoDO.png|Tactical Knife
===Call of Duty: Ghosts===
Combat Knife model CoDG.png|Knife
Combat Knife Menu Icon CoDG.png|Combat Knife (and Gold variant)
Riot Shield model CoDG.png|Riot Shield
Tactical Knife Menu Icon CoDG.png|Tactical Knife
Axe model CoDG.png|Axe (Onslaught DLC)
Wristblades model CoDG.png|Wristblades (Devastation DLC)
Push Dagger Federation Day CoDG.png|Push Dagger (Campaign Only)
Samantha Cross with a Machete CoDG.png|Machete (Extinction; Unusable)
===Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare===
Combat Knife model AW.png|Combat Knife
Heavy Shield menu icon AW.png|Heavy Shield
Tactical Knife menu icon AW.png|Tactical Knife
Melee AW.png|Exo Melee
Exo Shield model AW.png|Exo Shield
Uplink Drone First Person AW.png|Uplink Drone
Knife AW.png|Knife (Campaign & Exo Zombies only)
Ice Pick third person MW2.png|Ice Axe (Campaign, unusable)
Wrench AW.png|Wrench (Campaign, unusable)
Additionally, in the campaign mission "Captured", the player can melee by pistol whipping with the Atlas 45, the SN6 and the AMR9. However, these melee attacks aren't one-hit kill, unlike other melee weapons.
===Call of Duty: Black Ops III===
====Standalone melee weapons====
Combat Knife Gunsmith model BO3.png|Combat Knife
Butterfly Knife gunsmith model BO3.png|Butterfly Knife (added via update)
Wrench menu icon BO3.png|Wrench (update)
Brass Knuckles Gunsmith Model BO3.png|Brass Knuckles (update)
Fury's Song Gunsmith model BO3.jpg|Fury's Song (update)
Iron Jim Gunsmith Model BO3.png|Iron Jim (update)
MVP Gunsmith model BO3.png|MVP (update)
Carver Gunsmith Model BO3.png|Carver (update)
Malice Menu Icon BOIII.png|Malice (update)
Skull Splitter gunsmith model BO3.png|Skull Splitter (update)
Slash N' Burn Gunsmith Model BO3.png|Slash N' Burn (update)
Nightbreaker menu icon BO3.png|Nightbreaker (update)
Buzz Cut menu icon BO3.png|Buzz Cut (update)
Nunchucks Gunsmith model BO3.png|Nunchucks (update)
Enforcer Gunsmith model BO3.png|Enforcer (update)
Prizefighters Gunsmith model BO3.png|Prizefighters (update)
Path of Sorrows Gunsmith model BO3.png|Path of Sorrows (update)
Ace of Spades Gunsmith model BO3.png|Ace of Spades (update)
Bushwhacker Gunsmith model BO3.png|Bushwhacker (update)
L3FT.E Gunsmith model BO3.png|L3FT.E (update)
Raven's Eye Gunsmith model BO3.png|Raven's Eye (update)
====Other melee weapons====
Fists BO3.png|Fists
Ballistic Knife Gunsmith model BO3.png|Ballistic Knife (update)
Ripper First Person BO3.png|Ripper
Uplink Stronghold BOIII.jpg|Uplink Drone
Knife BOIII.png|Knife (Zombies only)
Bowie Knife BO3.png|Bowie Knife (Zombies only)
Summoning Key First Person BO3.png|Summoning Key (Zombies only)
*Electrostatic Strike (Cyber Core)
*Rapid Strike (Cyber Core)
*Ravage Core (Cyber Core)
*Bayonet (attachment for the NX ShadowClaw)
*Apothicon Sword (Zombies only)
*Rocket Shield (Zombies only)
*Plunger (Zombies only)
*Katana (Zombies only, unusable)
*115 Punch (Zombies only)
*Sickle (Zombies only)
Unlike previous games, players will not melee with a knife if they have their other weapon out, instead they will melee with the butt of their weapon or pistol whip. In order to melee with another weapon, they will have to select the combat knife, or have no weapons whatsoever, which will give the player Fists. Melee with one's gun can kill in one to the sides or rear, but requires two hits to the front. The fists take two hits to kill regardless. Furthermore, there is now an actual weapon class for eighteen standalone melee weapons in multiplayer.
Kuda Melee BO3.png|Meleeing with the Kuda
===Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare===
====Standalone====
Combat Knife menu icon IW.png|Combat Knife
Axe Model IW.png|Axe (Zombies, and later added to multiplayer via update)
Katana Model IW.png|Katana (added via update)
Nunchucks Model IW.png|Nunchucks (added via update)
*Willard's Dagger (Zombies only)
*Golf Club (Zombies only)
*Machete (Zombies only)
*Spiked Bat (Zombies only)
*Two-Headed Axe (Zombies only)
====Other====
*Fists
*Knife (Campaign, Gun Game, Infected, and All or Nothing only)
*Electro-Knife (Campaign only)
*Cleaver (Zombies only)
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered===
====Standalone (all added via updates)====
====Other====
Knife MWR.png|Knife
===Call of Duty: WWII===
====Standalone====
*US Shovel
*Ice Pick (Winter Siege update)
*Trench Knife (Winter Siege update)
*Combat Knife (The Resistance update)
*Baseball Bat (Blitzkrieg update)
*Fire Axe (Attack of the Undead update)
*Claymore (Attack of the Undead update)
*Push Dagger (Liberty Strike update)
*Sledgehammer (Halloween Scream update)
====Melee wonder weapons (Zombies)====
Red Talon first person WWII.png|Red Talon
Nachtmahr WWII.png|Nachtmahr
Perchta WWII.png|Perchta
Holda WWII.png|Holda
Blade of Barbarossa WWII.png|Blade of Barbarossa
Sword of Barbarossa Ingame WWII.jpg|Sword of Barbarossa
====Other====
*Bayonet
*Tactical Knife (The Resistance update)
*Knife (campaign only)
===Call of Duty: Black Ops 4===
====Standalone====
*Combat Knife
*Secret Santa (Operation Absolute Zero update)
*Slay Bell (Operation Absolute Zero update)
*Cha-Ching (Operation Grand Heist update)
*Home Wrecker (Operation Grand Heist update)
*Nifo'oti (Operation Spectre Rising update)
*Rising Tide (Days of Summer update)
*Backhander (Operation Apocalypse Z update)
*Full Stop (1.23 update)
*Series 6 Outrider (Operation Dark Divide update)
*Eye of Apophis (Operation Dark Divide update)
*Bowie Knife (Blackout and Zombies only)
====Melee wonder weapons (Zombies)====
*Chakrams of Vengeance
*Hammer of Valhalla
*Scepter of Ra 
*Viper and Dragon
*Path of Sorrows
*Golden Spork (not standalone)
====Other====
*Fists
*Bayonet
*Ballistic Knife (Days of Summer update)
*Knife (Zombies only)
===Call of Duty: Mobile===
====Standalone====
Knife model CoDMobile.png|Base Melee
Knife model 2 CoDMobile.png|Knife
Axe model CoDMobile.png|Axe(Season 2)
Baseball Bat model CoDMobile.png|Baseball Bat(Season 3)
Katana melee model CoDMobile.png|Katana(Season 6)
Shovel model CoDMobile.png|Shovel(2021 Season 2)
Sickle model CoDMobile.png|Sickle(2021 Season 4)
Wrench model CoDMobile.png|Wrench(2021 Season 6)
Machete model CoDMobile.png|Machete(2021 Season 6)
Prizefighters model CoDMobile.png|Prizefighters(2021 Season 7)
Nunchucks model CoDMobile.png|Nunchucks(2021 Season 10)
Kali Sticks model CoDMobile.png|Kali Sticks(2022 Season 4)
Butterfly Knife model CoDMobile.png|Butterfly Knife(2022 Season 8)
Sai model CoDMobile.png|Sai(2023 Season 8)
Ballistic Knife model CoDMobile.png|Ballistic Knife(2023 Season 11)
Spear model CoDMobile.png|Spear(2024 Season 2)
''
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare===
====Standalone====
Riot Shield Gunsmith Preview MW.png|Riot Shield
Combat Knife Gunsmith Preview MW.png|Combat Knife
Kali Stick Gunsmith MW2019.png|Kali Sticks(Season 4)
Dual Kodachis Gunsmith MW.png|Dual Kodachis(Season 5)
====Other====
*Fists
*Knife
*Karambit Knife
*Machete
*Axe
*Bludgeon
*Halligan Bar
*Totokia
*Cinderblock
*Ballistic Knife
*Sword
*Shiv (Campaign and as a blueprint)
*Screwdriver (Campaign and as a blueprint)
*Scissors (Campaign)
===Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War===
====Standalone====
Knife Gunsmith Model BOCW.png|Knife
Sledgehammer Gunsmith BOCW.png|Sledgehammer(Season 1)
Wakizashi Gunsmith BOCW.png|Wakizashi(Season 1)
Machete Gunsmith BOCW.png|Machete(Season 2)
E-Tool Gunsmith BOCW.png|E-Tool(Season 2)
Baseball Bat Gunsmith BOCW.png|Baseball Bat(Season 3)
Mace Gunsmith BOCW.png|Mace(Season 4)
Cane Gunsmith BOCW.png|Cane(Season 5)
Sai Gunsmith BOCW.png|Sai(Season 5)
Battle Axe Gunsmith BOCW.png|Battle Axe(Season 6)
Hammer and Sickle Gunsmith BOCW.png|Hammer and Sickle(Season 6)
Scythe Gunsmith BOCW.png|Scythe(8/12/22 Update)
====Other====
*Fists
*Bowie Knife
===Call of Duty: Vanguard===
====Standalone====
Combat Shield Gunsmith VG.png|Combat Shield
FS Fighting Knife Gunsmith VG.png|FS Fighting Knife
Sawtooth Gunsmith CODV.png|Sawtooth(Season 1)
Katana Gunsmith CODV.png|Katana(Season 1)
Ice Axe Gunsmith CODV.png|Ice Axe(Season 2)
Sledgehammer Gunsmith CODV.png|Sledgehammer(Season 3)
Skål Crusher Gunsmith CODV.png|Skål Crusher(Season 3)
Push Dagger Gunsmith CODV.png|Push Dagger(Season 4)
====Other====
*Knife
*Baseball Bat
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II===
====Standalone====
RiotShield Gunsmith MWII.png|Riot Shield
Combat Knife Gunsmith MWII.png|Combat Knife
Dual Kodachis Gunsmith MWII.png|Dual Kodachis(Season 2)
Tonfa Gunsmith MWII.png|Tonfa(Season 4)
Pickaxe Gunsmith MWII.png|Pickaxe(Season 5)
Dual Kamas Gunsmith MWII.png|Dual Kamas(Season 6)
====Other====
*Fists
*Kali Sticks
*Sledgehammer
*Box Cutter (Campaign)
*Glass Shiv (Campaign)
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III===
All weapons from Modern Warfare II carry forward to this game; only the new Modern Warfare III melee weapons are listed here.
====Standalone====
Gutter Knife Gunsmith MWIII.png|Gutter Knife
Karambit Gunsmith MWIII.png|Karambit
Soulrender Gunsmith MWIII.png|Soulrender(Season 2)
Gladiator Gunsmith MWIII.png|Gladiator(Season 3)
Sledgehammer Gunsmith MWIII.png|Sledgehammer(Season 4)
Spear Gunsmith MWIII.png|Spear(Season 5)
===Call of Duty: Black Ops 6===
====Standalone====
Knife Gunsmith BO6.png|Knife
Baseball Bat Gunsmith BO6.png|Baseball Bat
POWER DRILL Gunsmith BO6.png|POWER DRILL(Season 1)
Cleaver Gunsmith BO6.png|Cleaver(Season 1)
''
==Cut Melee Weapons==
===Call of Duty: Black Ops===
Sabertooth untextured.png|Sabertooth
AUG Bayonet Closeup BO.png|Bayonet
===Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare===
Atlas Sword Front AW.png|Atlas Sword
ja:装備
Category:Weapon Types