Assault Power Fist
AssaultTurns the jump pack into both the mobility engine and the damage engine. Every dash animation-cancels whatever you are doing, which erases the awkward wind-up on a Balance-variant Power Fist and lets you throw its 19 Strength charged heavies with impunity. Furious Strikes and Commitment refund a jump pack charge on dash-attacks and perfect dodges, so the resource loops back into itself endlessly. Wings of Flame then turns each dash into a damaging perfect dodge that can strip a Carnifex on its own.
Damage
26.4 base Power Fist damage at 19 Strength, multiplied by Overcharge +25%, Aerial Grace +30%, Knowledge of the Enemy +15%, Strategic Strikes +20%, and Majoris Slayer +10%
Survivability
+15% HP, 30% ranged DR from Hammer of Wrath, 20% more from Scrambled Targeting, 50% health DR while charging below 30% HP, 3s invulnerability on demand
Boss
Can solo a Carnifex on dash-dodges alone. Charged plasma staggers Minigun Terminators out of their burst
Assault
The squad's aerial melee specialist. The Assault carries a jump pack instead of a primary weapon, trading ranged firepower for leaps, dashes, and a ground pound that flattens crowds. Its dashes cancel the recovery animation of anything it is doing, so it can commit to slow heavy weapons that other classes cannot safely swing.
Relic-tier Balance Power Fist and the highest melee stat line in the game at 19 Strength, 7+ Speed, and 12+ Cleaving Potential. Balance variants normally have an awkward parry window, but any jump pack dash cancels the animation, so the Assault sidesteps that weakness entirely with one button. Charged heavy attacks carry innate hyper armour and send a far-reaching power wave, which lets you delete hordes and Majoris from outside their swing range.
Alternative Melee Weapons
How to Obtain
Combat Strategy
- ▸Slot the Alpha (Balance) Power Fist. The dash animation cancel is what makes its wind-up safe, so the variant that would be worst on any other class is the best one here.
- ▸Confirm Hammer of Wrath is on the prestige bar. Using the jump pack once at the start of an engagement gives you 30% ranged damage reduction and knockback immunity for 15 seconds.
- ▸Check your equipment charge before a horde section so Consecutive Execution has something to refund.
- ▸Dash into the target, land the dash attack, and take the free jump pack charge from Furious Strikes.
- ▸Charge a Power Fist heavy and release into the group, letting the Tide of Battle power wave carry through anything behind your target.
- ▸Dash through the next incoming attack for a Wings of Flame perfect dodge, which refunds a charge through Commitment and refreshes the 30% Aerial Grace buff.
- ▸Cancel any animation you get stuck in with a dash instead of waiting it out.
- ▸Hold the ground pound for a moment to trigger Unyielding Oath's 3 seconds of invulnerability, then land on a Minigun Terminator or through a Neurothrope wave.
- ▸Fire a charged Plasma Pistol shot into a Majoris cluster to stagger the group, then follow with a charged heavy while they are locked down.
- ▸Chain seven kills inside 6 seconds during a horde to refund your melta bomb through Consecutive Execution, then throw it into the next pack.
- ▸Fight from below 30% health on purpose. Focused Intention halves health damage while you charge a heavy, so you win trades other classes cannot take.
- ▸Convert contested health with a fast charged Plasma Pistol shot. The Beta variant charges in 0.35 seconds, so the window is easy to hit.
- ▸Take the execute after every one-shot on a Majoris. It is the build's main heal.
- ▸Holster the Plasma Pistol to melee to vent heat, or lean on Perfect Cooling, which fully cools the weapon on any perfect dodge.
- ▸Against a Carnifex, dash through each swing on rhythm. Wings of Flame damage plus refunded charges can take the fight on its own with almost no melee input.
- ▸Against Chaos, swap the secondary to an Inferno Pistol and use the charged stagger to interrupt Terminator minigun fire.
- ▸Against Tyranids, take a Heavy Bolt Pistol to pop Zoanthropes that the Power Fist has no answer for.
- ▸Keep Strategic Strikes in mind on Extremis and Terminus targets. The 20% melee buff applies to the whole squad, not just you.
Sources
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