A very 'special' guide to the Poleaxe - Chivalry 2

Just run around sneakily heavy-stabbing people for 2-hit kills. Turn into the windup animation to hide it partially.

Ayeeee played with you in a match!! God dam demon 🤣

Poleaxes are definitely one of my favorite weapon choices in the game, alongside Berserker Axe, the fist-hammer, and the bowtie axe.

I love the Poleaxe, everyone thinks longswords or a sword and shield or something are Knightly weapons, nah man Knights gon bash your brains in with an axe that is also a hammer.

i have always used the poleaxe it is my main weapon and always will be

Wonderfully edited vid
A pleasure to watch even when I haven't played since launch

I use the mace because I like throwing my weapon at people, the mace won't stick to people so it makes it easy to get it back.
It's very effective.

Chivalry 2 can be summed up with "if this worked"

Love the editing well done 👌🏼

Zig:*wins game* lobby: "and I took that personally."

I'm definitely a dane axe fan club guy. But the poax is good for when you want to mix up your gameplay little bit.

Shovel may not be meta-viable
But it's the best meme weapon that can bonk people

So is this just for honor but bad?

im offended you put my shovel at unusable honestly

I dont like polearms in this game, but i had so much fun playing with poleaxe it might my fav now lol

Warclub S tier you will never change my mind

I was wondering why my range with the poleaxe felt so weirdly inconsistent, even within the same attacks. Thanks for clearing that up!
Still love this thing to bits, its stabs and special attack are amazing and it just feels good.

The world’s most versatile weapon, the pollaxe.

Can you do a guide or over view on first vs 3rd person play style?

This is some mad good content bruh so much information, almost feel bad absorbing all of it

Do longsword vs pole axe

Mount and blade: Chivarly.

It makes me sad that Chiv 2 managed to make me hate the Kriegsmesser, it's such a pretty weapon. But as a Vanguard primarily I must say it's absolute disgusting and WHY CAN'T I STAB COUNTER?

Stab through people running like a bus…

poleaxe my beloved

That thing with swings is fixed now, and poleaxe got nice buff so I think this is a good weapon now

Will you do the limited time volly game mode??

I enjoy the poleaxe but the left -> right swing being so bad can feel really shitty in 1vX given thats how you swing after a counter, and of course overheads/stabs aren't as good in these situations

It’s always been great for me. It was the quintessential knightly weapon back in the day, and was more effective than most spears and especially swords on the real life battlefield. It was also highly modular, unlike a weapon like the halberd, which was forged from one metal piece. Most poleaxes were also the most sturdy weapons, sporting metal reinforcement on the shaft to make withstanding enemy attacks easier.

I mostly play Officer/Poleaxe/Mace on defence and Crusader/Messer/Morning star sometimes on offence. I pick up the messer from the ground whenever possible when I am playing officer. With the messer it's just so easy to quickly gank people with the heavy overhead drags while I use the stabs and special on the poleaxe to gank or swap to the mace to swarm the enemy when ganking.

Frontlining in a pinch and staying behind offensive minded people when holding a line and protecting team mates is what the poleaxe excels at in my opinion. I prefer the officer with the poleaxe over Guardian/1h spear/mace playstyle. I have tried playing a bit of longsword and greatsword here and there as officer but I don't think they are as versatile when trying to play as a group support. I feel like you kinda need to pick Devastator to use the greatsword to it's full potential.

The defensive anti-gank capability and overall versatility and good match-up spread as well as the chop damage bonus is what makes the poleaxe stand out for me. Stab/heavy stab/special is the bread and butter of this weapon, you don't have to commit to moving forward and being aggressive to be effective with the poleaxe, as long as you have at least one team mate close to you this weapon does not feel that much inferior to the messer and the heavy stab and special allow you to still finish people off quite quickly when the situation presents itself. The alt quick stab (try to use alt stab over regular stab whenever possible) allows you to do good damage and interrupt anyone charging at you when "anchoring" yourself in a position when lets say a 3vs3 is about to break out and you are at the front and most likely to be targeted by someone running at you with a heavy slash.

Great video you explained the pros and cons perfectly!

I just want them to stop nerfing spears into the ground.
Stabbing past allies is terrible because of the relatively low reach. Unlike practically every other weapon in the game, you're screwed if you're up against more than one person because you have no cleave and have to aim. Every other 2h weapon you can just waltz in between the enemies and swing while spinning around and you'll get kills. Try the same with a spear and you'll be lucky to even hit once before you're dead.
Your limited attack options means you can't do shit if the enemy knows what distance to keep, they approach faster than you can back off so they control the distance.

I think I'm winning more 1v1s with spear than I'm losing, but that seems to be entirely because people just don't know how to act when up against it. They'll back off after every swing, simply allowing me to control the distance where they could simply walk up close. I'm a pretty average player and it's 10x easier to get kills by just grabbing a 2h sword, axe or even just the halberd to go in and wreck havoc.

poor horse

dude this thing slaps tried it out after this vid and god damn

If that's your tier list... woof is that a bad take.
Shovel - likely the fastest overheads in the game and a very strong A or B tier. Two hand spear S tier?? Any spear slash or stab can be countered with a different weapons counter stab making it very easy to close distance.

Poleaxe very underrated

This is my main weapon, but I struggle with it a bit. It makes me feel bad at the game. Once I try out a dropped sword, I realise I'm not actually that bad, and I find it a lot easier, but I want to use a pole axe as a knight.

wait does the poleaxe's special STILL not change to blunt damage!? despite the animation havving you wack them with the hammer end!? all that aside i do love me poleaxe for the reasons you pointed out

Ziggy can have 8 ppl in front of him with his back to the wall holding a pole axe and still live. Seen it, bros different.

I learned the game with the Halberd so when it came to using the knight class (I was trying to level up each class at the same time sort of thing) the poleaxe was an instant hit for me

I didn't actually realise the poleaxes stats were so shortcoming but now that I've seen this it makes much more sense as to why I was getting mollywhopped after I started using it EXPECIALLY with like you say.... The alt swings

I believe you have done videos on a few weapons that you said has a longer reach with the alt attacks so I get bamboozled alot

Regardless of whether I'm top of the scoreboard though the game is fun, I just wish it ran like it was meant to

I personally absolutely love the poleaxe, you can get around people's blocks so easy with it, and I find it to be way more intuitive than the Messer. It's got good range, all right damage, and people don't really fight against poleaxes that much so they don't really know how to counter you that well. It's my main weapon for a very good reason.

It’s a weapon you could imagine a load of butch lesbians with pink ribbons in their hair running on the battlefield with

As a polearm, one of my favorite things about it is its value in group fights in narrow places.

Poleaxe sits in that weird spot where it has bad stats compared to other weapons but it's just decent enough that a skilled player can use every bit of it to pull out a win against anyone. It's reach isn't as good as other polearms, the dmg isn't anything special compared to other chop weapons and the speed can't compete against faster weapons that gamble. That being said, sits in the weird dmg spot that will kill everyone in 2-4 hits no matter who it is, it's mediocre speed can be boosted into decent range with ripostes and counters on top of -10% stamina reduction and it's special has very long reach on top of being a 2HKO against anyone. I like to use this weapon when I'm on defense. On defense, you want to stall as much as possible until your team spawns in a wave to the objective. This weapon can consistently face anyone, is a polearm that suits team fights and encourages riposte/counter/specials as your tools to pull out a win which makes it a amazing compliment to officer so you can hold down a line and rally horn with your boys for a counter attack.