Sailor Piece Best Melees Tier List

Melees are the second main combat path in Sailor Piece, and here is the secret most new players completely miss: several melees actually out-perform swords for AFK and idle farming. While swords win on flashy burst numbers, the very best melees deal damage so consistently that you can leave your character grinding while you do something else entirely. This is the most complete melee tier list available — all 17 melees ranked from the S-tier endgame fists down to the free Combat starter, fully updated for the Ghoul Update meta. Read on and you will know exactly which fighting style is worth committing your materials, rerolls and race to.

1Why Melees Are Secretly Overpowered

The hidden strength of a melee is uptime. A sword combo has natural gaps — wind-up frames, cooldowns, animation locks. A top-tier melee like Cosmic Being has almost no time lag on its core move, which means it pumps out near-constant damage with barely a pause. In a game built entirely around endless grinding, that relentless consistency is worth far more than a single big burst number that only lands once every few seconds.

Melees also tend to have wider hitboxes than swords, so each swing tags more enemies at once. On the dense mob packs of Sea 2 islands, that wider reach quietly multiplies your effective damage and XP per minute. The trade-off is range and mobility — most melees keep you close to danger — but for pure farming throughput, the best fists are simply unmatched.

2How We Rank Melees

Each melee is scored on raw damage, moveset uptime, hitbox coverage and how realistic it is to obtain. Because melees live and die on consistency, uptime carries extra weight here compared to the sword list — a melee with a slightly lower damage number but near-zero downtime will often out-farm a higher-number melee that stutters between moves. We re-test rankings after every update.

3S-Tier — The Best Melees

Cosmic Being tops the entire list as the undisputed king of AFK grinding. Its near-zero downtime means it deals damage practically every frame, making it the most efficient farming melee in the game by a comfortable margin. If your main goal is currency, materials and XP, this is the fist to build toward.

Joining it in S-tier are The World and Strongest Shinobi. The World combines monstrous burst with built-in crowd control, making it superb for both bosses and packs. Strongest Shinobi posts the single highest documented damage values of any melee in Sailor Piece — if pure ceiling is what you want, this is it. All three are endgame crafts that demand a specific race, clan or bloodline plus stacks of materials.

4A-Tier and the Mid-Game

A-tier melees like Demon King, King of Heroes and Moon Slayer are strong, dependable endgame options that fall just short of the S-tier ceiling. They are easier to obtain and still clear content quickly — many players happily stay on an A-tier melee permanently because the marginal jump to S-tier is not worth the extra grind for casual play.

5Every Melee Ranked

Below is the full melee roster pulled live from our database. Cursed Vessel deserves a special shout-out — it is the only Legendary melee in the game and an outstanding, cheap mid-game pickup that punches well above its tier. Combat is the free starter every player begins with; it is fine for the first island but should be replaced as soon as possible.

6Building Around a Melee

1. 1

   Start free with Combat

   Combat carries you through Starter Island. Do not invest materials in it — it is purely temporary.

2. 2

   Pick up Cursed Vessel

   The only Legendary melee is a cheap, powerful bridge until you can craft an S-tier fist.

3. 3

   Roll the required race or bloodline

   Top melees gate behind a specific race, clan or bloodline. Reroll for it before farming materials.

4. 4

   Craft Cosmic Being or The World

   Farm the boss for the title and materials, then craft your endgame melee at the seller NPC.

7Melee + Race Synergy

Just like swords, melees have a matching race that grants a bonus damage multiplier. Galevorn is the premier melee race, boosting all melee damage; Warlord is an excellent runner-up. Equipping a sword race while fighting with fists silently throws away a large free multiplier. Align your race, clan, bloodline and accessory toward melee or general damage so every multiplicative layer compounds in your favour.

8Common Melee Mistakes

• Investing crafting materials into the free Combat melee — it is disposable starter gear.
• Using a sword race while fighting with a melee — you lose a major free damage multiplier.
• Chasing a higher damage number while ignoring uptime — consistency wins the farming race.
• Skipping Cursed Vessel and trying to jump straight from Combat to a Mythical melee.