BEST Cyberpunk 2077 Melee Weapons: Location, Upgrades, Stats

The Tinker Bell is an electric Baton that can shock and electrocute enemies using its quick hits. It is yet another one-handed club iconic weapon that has a high probability of incapacitating your foes. I personally found this weapon to be quite helpful in completing the cyber psycho targets, which should preferably be taken down non-lethally.

The weapon has a 20% shock effect along with a 50% critical damage modifier, which makes it ideal if you are looking for another cool electric weapon to add to your inventory. Not to mention, you can easily find it lying around in one of the main NPC questlines featuring the detective, River Ward.

Location & Stats

You can find The Tinker Bell at the end of River Ward’s questline while searching for Peter Pan’s tormentor.

1. Infiltrate a Farmhouse to rescue River’s Nephew.
2. Disable the security system by going into the nearby house.
3. Head upstairs in the house to deactivate automated turrets and make things easier.
4. Inside this room, locate a hidden button under the desk.
5. Press the button to open a secret door, revealing The Tinker Bell on the desk.

There is another weapon like the Tinker Bell, which can deal both electrical and chemical damage, called the Cottonmouth. The weapon is an intriguing choice to have since it can potentially shock and apply poison damage to your enemies, which is great for close combat encounters.

It doesn’t come equipped with too many numerical bonuses, but what makes it more interesting is that the weapon will continuously deal either shock or chemical damage, which is excellent in itself. You can also enhance these capabilities with mods to increase these elemental status effects greatly.

Location & Stats

The Cottonmouth can be found during the main quest in Act 2 called The Space In Between, where V will need to visit a clinic called Finger’s M.D. in order to gain access to some valuable information. While you are in the Clinic, there should be an open bedroom door on the left side where you can find the weapon lying around to be collected on the bed, as shown in the image of the Cottonmouth.

The Stinger is basically another awesome throwing knife that players can collect from a missable conversation with one of the NPCs in the game. Now that the throwing knives function like boomerangs, you can use this weapon in pure style and comfort by ridiculously throwing it to one-shot most enemies at your level.

What makes the weapon feel special is the fact that its special effect is that with each successful hit to the opponent, it will dish out chemical damage. Furthermore, the poison effect chance is 30% on each of these hits, making it an ideal weapon if you are planning on using a throwing knife build for your playthrough.

Location & Stats

The Stinger can be obtained through a Side Job in the game:

1. Complete the “Riders On The Storm” quest with Panam in the Desert area.
2. After finishing the quest, return to the Aldecaldos Camp.
3. Find Mitch sitting near Scorpion’s grave, who had died in a previous mission with Panam.
4. Talk to Mitch to trigger a heart-to-heart conversation and initiate the “I’ll Fly Away” quest.
5. Upon completing the quest, Mitch will reward you with The Stinger Knife and a lucky charm, resembling Scorpion from Mortal Kombat games.

Out of most of the legendary weapons, the Caretaker’s Spade is certainly one special weapon for a couple of different reasons. One of which is that the weapon is quite literally a reference to The Witcher 3‘s Hearts Of Stone expansion, where you must battle against an abomination known as the Caretaker, who wields a rusty old shovel like the one represented in Cybperunk 2077 here.

It is a Two-handed Hammer type, which means it has slow but powerful attacks that can indefinitely immobilize enemies if used on a melee weapon build of the game. The weapon has great guard potential, which can prove to be fantastic as a guard option against the enemy’s unrelenting attacks. Furthermore, if you successfully manage to land hits with the weapon, it will also restore some of your health, which is useful during combat scenarios.

Location & Stats

The weapon can be obtained during one of the final missions in the game called ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ in which you infiltrate Arasaka Tower with Rogue, Johnny’s Girlfriend. It can be a little tricky to find since the location of the weapon has been slightly altered since the patch 1.5 release. Thankfully, the spade can be found leaning against a rock when you reach a conference table in the green room-like area of the tower.

Once you reach the Conference Table, there will be a security console that you can hack through in order to disable the defenses around the area. Go forward a bit to the left of it, and you should be able to spot it near a rock formation ready to be picked up.

For those eager for a superb Katana early in Cyberpunk 2077, the Satori is the go-to choice. Belonging to Saburo Arasaka, it maintains its shine since its 20th-century forging.

The Satori’s effect increases total DPS output by 500%, with only a 20% reduction in base damage. It swiftly dispatches enemies, making it one of the best early-game melee weapons.

There are also ways to maximize the damage probability by applying some mods to it as well as activating some perks that you can earn from the skills tree. I have done some testing by ourselves and found that using perks like Blood Brawl Ninjitsu, and Too Close For Comfort can easily ramp up your damage numbers. Lastly, be sure to equip melee weapon mods like Kunai and White-knuckled to increase critical damage and attack speed.

Location & Stats

You can find the Satori during “The Heist” questline in Cyberpunk 2077, where you infiltrate the Arasaka Penthouse with Jackie Wells. Head to the 42nd floor and locate the package you need to steal. However, the weapon can be collected on the helipad just outside the penthouse room. It’s advisable to grab it during this sequence as returning later can be challenging.

To obtain the Satori, exit through one of the windows onto the helipad and pick it up. It’s one of the strongest melee weapons for the early game. Additionally, you can enhance the Satori to Epic rarity using the crafting menu and the following materials:

• Requires the Grease Monkey perk
• Satori (Rare)
• Uncommon Item Components: 35x
• Rare Item Components: 30x
• Epic Item Components: 35x
• Legendary Item Components: 2x

The weapon is easily one of the fastest Katanas in the game and belongs to none other than Sandayu Oda, one of the game’s main bosses that you will encounter during the mid-game quests. The weapon is by far the strongest Katanas and is my personal best pick for melee weapons in Cyberpunk 2077.

Enemies will get sliced up to bits in just a couple of seconds because the main effect allows V to deal twice the damage against foes who are double their health them. Furthermore, the effect is boosted with the addition of the last strike in the combo, dealing 2x damage, totaling the damage around four times more than the normal one.

While you are experimenting with the weapon, I strongly advise opting to equip the cyberware ability known as the Kerenzikov alongside it. It works in full conjunction with the weapon as time is slowed down, and the critical chance modifier is raised to a whopping 100 percent, which will allow you to deal tenfolds of the normal damage.

Location & Stats

• Obtain the Jinchu-Maru weapon during the “Play It Safe” main quest, where you assist Takemura in infiltrating a parade to meet Hanako.
• The first objective is to eliminate all roaming enemies, including snipers in three distinct locations, without alerting them. Stealth is crucial.
• Beware of patrolling guards and drones that can spot you easily if not careful.
• Towards the end of the mission, you’ll face Oda Sadayu in an epic boss battle.
• Defeat Oda Sadayu, and the Jinchu-Maru Katana will be rewarded by looting his body.
• Afterward, complete the mission by heading through the nearby exit and concluding the quest sequence.

• Requires Perk called the Edgerunner Artisan
• Jinchu-Maru (Epic)
• Rare Item Components: 25x
• Epic Item Components: 40x
• Legendary Item Components: 3x