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The ultimate guide to melee weapon defense types in Space Marine 2 (2026)
This video explains the types of stats and defenses of melee weapons in Space Marine 2. It covers the stats of strength, speed, and cleave, as well as the defense types of fencing, balanced, and blocking. The video also explains the concept of perfect parries and perfect blocks, and how each weapon type uses them differently.
1. ⚔️ Introduction to Melee Weapon Stats and Defense Types
- ✅ Each melee weapon has three types of stats: strength, speed, and cleave.
- ✅ There are also three types of defense: fencing, balanced, and blocking.
00:00 - 00:55
1. ⚔️ Introduction to Melee Weapon Stats and Defense Types
- ✅ Each melee weapon has three types of stats: strength, speed, and cleave.
- ✅ There are also three types of defense: fencing, balanced, and blocking.
00:56 - 01:34
2. 💪 Strength Stat Explained
- ✅ Strength affects the overall damage of the weapon.
- ✅ Balanced and blocking weapons have the highest base strength stats.
- ⚠️ Strength numbers are not directly comparable between different weapon types.
01:35 - 02:22
3. 💨 Speed Stat Explained
- ✅ Speed affects the speed of the weapon's attacks, including light combos and heavy attack combos.
- ❌ Speed does not affect the charge speed of charged attacks.
- ✅ Speed is useful for staggering enemies and dealing damage in enemy attack gaps.
02:23 - 04:07
4. 🔪 Cleave Potential Explained
- ✅ Cleave affects the maximum number of enemies you can hit and deal damage to.
- ✅ The cleave stat adds a cleave value to the base cleave of the weapon's attack.
- ✅ Values can be found on the game's wiki.
- ⚠️ Some values in the game are represented incorrectly.
04:08 - 05:32
5. 🛡️ Perfect Parry Explained
- ✅ Fencing and balanced weapons can perform a perfect parry.
- ✅ Perfect parries deflect an enemy attack and open them up for more hits.
- ✅ A successful parry also staggers all enemies within 4.5m for a balanced weapon and 2m for a fencing weapon.
- ✅ You'll get a weapon attack opportunity on a perfect parry for even more damage on a follow-up attack.
- ✅ You'll also be able to use your perfect parry to defend against My Norris enemies, which will instantly kill the parried enemy and restore an armor segment.
- ✅ Blocked and parried enemies take 50% increased damage for 2.2 seconds.
05:33 - 06:18
6. 🤺 Fencing Weapons Explained
- ✅ They prioritize the speed stat at the cost of damage and cleave.
- ✅ The defining characteristic of a fencing weapon is its incredibly large perfect parry window.
- ✅ A fencing weapon's parry window lasts 40 frames and has zero startup frames.
06:19 - 07:32
7. ⚖️ Balanced Weapons Explained
- ✅ Balanced weapons are slightly slower than fencing weapons with tremendously higher base stats for strength and cleave.
- ✅ Their biggest drawback comes from their parry window, which is currently the worst in the game.
- ✅ Balanced weapons have a negative 10 frame startup on their parry window and a 30 frame active parry window for their perfect parries.
07:33 - 09:49
8. 🛡️ Blocking Weapons Explained
- ✅ Blocking weapons completely forgo the perfect parry for the perfect block mechanic to deal tremendous amounts of damage to enemy hordes and bosses.
- ✅ Like the fencing defense type, blocking weapons have a zero frame startup for their perfect block, so it will activate immediately upon pressing the button.
- ✅ The perfect block does not directly stagger the enemy and instead will grant you an adrenaline overcharge stack up to a maximum of two.
| Adrenaline Stacks | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Melee damage increased by 30% for 2.4 seconds |
| 2 | Melee damage increased by 90% for 2.4 seconds, causes a massive explosion that knocks back enemies within 4.5m, restores an armor segment, and causes your attack to stagger any enemy hit for the duration of the effect, including bosses. |
- ✅ You can also see the current amount of Drur stacks in the top left of your screen underneath your health bar with this icon.
- ✅ When you get a drill overcharge stack, you can also hear the iconic block ping and you'll also get a 60% range damage reduction for 2 seconds.
09:50 - 11:06
9. 🤔 Final Thoughts on Weapon Types and the Need for a Better Tutorial
- ✅ There is no tutorial for any of these weapon mechanics outside of a patch note from almost a year ago.
- ✅ Space Marine 2 in general desperately needs a better tutorial.
- ✅ Regardless of which weapon types are strongest overall, each weapon type in Space Ring 2 can perform well in operations, difficult strategies, and even in siege mode outside of ridiculously high waves.
- ✅ Use whatever you feel like or whatever best suits your chosen build and play style.