Mass Effect 3 - All Classes Unique Melee Animations

For archival purposes mostly. Replaying ME3 and remembered the YouTube video that shows these animations is from the demo in 2012 in bad quality, so here's a nicer looking one.

[jj_grabes]

Imagine being a Vanguard or Adept killing Kai Leng and you drive a biotic-empowered fist into his chest instead of a omniblade.

[francislaing]

I never realized there was a different animation for these at all but I rarely used melee

[paragonflash]

Fun fact each heavy melee has a unique special effect
Soldier: fast and simple it does the lowest damage but its recovery is quick
Infiltrator: medium speed it does extra damage to shielded enemys and synthetic targets
Vanguard: Like soldier its a quick and fast biotic attack
Adept: Its a slow recovery attack but it pushes enemys back and has extended range.
Sentinal: Does the most damage and has the most range but has slow recovery.
Engineer: same thing as infiltrator but applies burning to targets.

[bmanpura]

Imagine being killed by Enginner's beetch slap.
*E M O T I O N A L D A M A G E*

[lelouche]

Let's face it, Sentinel is the freaking coolest shit ever with the dual omni blades

[spikegilfer]

Extremely manly roars
0:33 Engineer: The best I can do is infernal back-hand.

[michaelandreipalon]

Gotta love Sentinel's dual wield. Accurate to the advertising art too.

There is actually another melee animation you didn't include: if you're a vanguard and melee whilst sprinting, you'll do a forward facing nova attack similar to Kai Leng in the Cerberus HQ instead of the regular biotic punch...

[hajde]

Nothing beats the vanguard melee with a biotic charge

[jamiemiller]

Some thing I just noticed, in the citadel DLC when you melee clash with The clone, if you’re a vanguard or adept instead of clashing blades you almost clash energy similar to that scene in revenge of the Sith when both Obi-Wan and Anakin go for force push at the same time

[MatthiasPowerbomb]

I love the Novaguard melee. Falcon punch!

[cecil]

As a proud sentinel main since ME1 you bet your ass I was proud as hell of the melee, always thought the dual omni-blades were cool

[Robertward]

Soldier: Omni-Blade
Infiltrator: Omni-Claw
Vanguard: Biotic Punch
Sentinel: Omni-Blades
Biotic: Biotic Push
Engineer: Omni-Explosion

[IndoorSitup]

Sorry for being "that guy" but you forgot the unique sprinting heavy melee that the Vanguard has.

[Afridico]

I love playing vanguard. I feel like a superhero with that power punch.

[purpleisthesneakiest]

i never actually realized that the two biotic classes had different animations, or that sentinel had a double-bladed attack
pretty cool all things considered

[raiden]

I always assumed the infiltrator one was standard for everyone

[gustavomotta]

and yet to kill Kai Lang no matter which class you have shepard will use soldier melee attack

[versebuchanan]

I love the Engineers is just an exploding backhand bitch slap.

[caraunio]

As someone that just plays soldier or vanguard I always thought there was only 2 animations (omniblade and biotic punch)