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Bruiser

Bruiser

Kill 100 enemies with melee attacks.

How to unlock the Bruiser achievement in Mass Effect 3 - Definitive Guide

After the first few missions you will have this just by killing mostly husks. I found them to be a 1 shot kill with the charged melee attack (Holding B) on insanity difficulty. Best part is they run right to you, in fact this is more then likely the overall best way to kill them anyway. Do not waste your time reloading chapters if you want it badly go to multiplayer.

Multiplayer:
If you would like this sooner rather then later, multiplayer is your best bet. You do basically the same thing and just run around using your charge melee attack. The best of the 3 enemy types to fight are the Reapers. Cannibals hardly shoot or even move on Bronze difficulty. I went around 1 hitting them without being spec'd into any melee enhancements.

Cheers
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07 Mar 2012 09:33

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i found this to be the quickest way, however it involves some luck

i was playing multiplayer just for the lulz and the overload achievement, when in one of my veteran packs i got the asari vanguard

i tried it out, put some points into biotic charge (it makes you invulnerable for a short period) and the rest into fitness (more melee damage)

turns out, this character has a very powerful area effect melee

so i just kept playing using only "Y" (biotic charge) and then the charged "B" for the area melee

i got around 50 melee kills before we reached wave 10! specially if the enemy is reaper, with all those small swarmers in the later waves
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By Phoenix C64 on 14 Mar 2012 13:42
That's a good tip, Phoenix C64!
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By on 26 Sep 2012 07:46
After the first few missions you will have this just by killing mostly husks. I found them to be a 1 shot kill with the charged melee attack (Holding B) on insanity difficulty. Best part is they run right to you, in fact this is more then likely the overall best way to kill them anyway. Do not waste your time reloading chapters if you want it badly go to multiplayer.

Multiplayer:
If you would like this sooner rather then later, multiplayer is your best bet. You do basically the same thing and just run around using your charge melee attack. The best of the 3 enemy types to fight are the Reapers. Cannibals hardly shoot or even move on Bronze difficulty. I went around 1 hitting them without being spec'd into any melee enhancements.

Cheers
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07 Mar 2012 09:33

2 Comments
That's a good tip, Phoenix C64!
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By on 26 Sep 2012 07:46
i found this to be the quickest way, however it involves some luck

i was playing multiplayer just for the lulz and the overload achievement, when in one of my veteran packs i got the asari vanguard

i tried it out, put some points into biotic charge (it makes you invulnerable for a short period) and the rest into fitness (more melee damage)

turns out, this character has a very powerful area effect melee

so i just kept playing using only "Y" (biotic charge) and then the charged "B" for the area melee

i got around 50 melee kills before we reached wave 10! specially if the enemy is reaper, with all those small swarmers in the later waves
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By Phoenix C64 on 14 Mar 2012 13:42
you can also get it in the dlc Citadel in the combat simulator

Lift 100 enemies off the ground with powers.
Overload the shields of 100 enemies.
Kill 100 enemies with melee attacks.
Perform any combination of 50 biotic combos or tech bursts
Kill 10 guardians with headshots from the front while their shields are raised
Set 100 enemies on fire with powers

i did 3 already using the combat simulator and they counted.

so if yo are missing some of like me dident got the 10 headshort in the rest of the game you can get them there also.

yust put it on easy only you so your teammates dont get the kill and keep playing the level till you get the achievements you want
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22 Mar 2014 16:28

you can also get it in the dlc Citadel in the combat simulator

Lift 100 enemies off the ground with powers.
Overload the shields of 100 enemies.
Kill 100 enemies with melee attacks.
Perform any combination of 50 biotic combos or tech bursts
Kill 10 guardians with headshots from the front while their shields are raised
Set 100 enemies on fire with powers

i did 3 already using the combat simulator and they counted.

so if yo are missing some of like me dident got the 10 headshort in the rest of the game you can get them there also.

yust put it on easy only you so your teammates dont get the kill and keep playing the level till you get the achievements you want
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22 Mar 2014 16:28

Aside from Husks, I have also found Swarmers to be a nice way to get this achievement. If you go after some lost Krogan scouts, you should run into a decent number of these little guys...as long as your teammates don't one shot them first.
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09 Mar 2012 13:50

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This should be a comment, not a solution.
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By John Caboose on 16 Mar 2012 16:24
in your opinion, but thanks for the comment
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By Xelliz on 19 Mar 2012 16:17
I too found the lost scouts mission an easy way to grind some melee kills. However, it's hard to tell exactly how many kills.

Sometimes, you get the melee animation, but then your shields drop. In those instances, I think the swarmers have detonated on you rather than have been killed in melee. The timing can be pretty finicky.
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By CovetousCash64 on 27 Mar 2012 06:27
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Aside from Husks, I have also found Swarmers to be a nice way to get this achievement. If you go after some lost Krogan scouts, you should run into a decent number of these little guys...as long as your teammates don't one shot them first.
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09 Mar 2012 13:50

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This should be a comment, not a solution.
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By John Caboose on 16 Mar 2012 16:24
I too found the lost scouts mission an easy way to grind some melee kills. However, it's hard to tell exactly how many kills.

Sometimes, you get the melee animation, but then your shields drop. In those instances, I think the swarmers have detonated on you rather than have been killed in melee. The timing can be pretty finicky.
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By CovetousCash64 on 27 Mar 2012 06:27
in your opinion, but thanks for the comment
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By Xelliz on 19 Mar 2012 16:17
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To perform a melee attack, press . You will learn this attack early on in the game and if you want, you can even level up the power "fitness" which helps with melee damage. Holding  will give you a heavy attack. The most useful melee attack will be when you are in cover and an enemy is on the other side of the barrier . In most cases, if you hold  when there is an indicating arrow, you will do an instant kill. I found the easiest enemies to kill were the Husks. They also only melee, and there are always plenty of them when they attack.


Note: Even after dying, the ones you have obtained count. They count across all playthroughs as well as multiplayer (which you can play by yourself).

 
 
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This is cumulative and as long as you kill enemies by meleeing them it will count toward the trophy. It does not matter if the enemy has been shot or affected by any power beforehand, as long as the action that kills them is a melee attack (circle button).

Bumping the difficulty down to narrative makes this a breeze if you feel a need to grind this out.
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20 Feb 2014 15:00

Run up to an enemy and push to melee kill them. Melee attacks don’t do very much damage, so you will have to hit them multiple times for them to die. You can also use the heavy melee (hold ) to do more damage and kill them quicker. Repeat for 100 enemies. You’ll easily get this over the course of the game. All playthroughs add to your total number of melee kills. Also, if you die after performing a melee kill, that will count as well.

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You can do it almost at the very beginning, when you and Anderson are fighting off the mutants at the very beginning, it is advisable to set the difficulty to easy, the enemies will hardly hit you, as soon as you have killed about 30, die and do it again, until the bitter end.
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07 Mar 2012 20:25

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In multiplayer, playing as a special vehicle CLAW, shooting with an OmniLook counts kills in hand-to-hand combat...
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By Freenteza on 02 May 2016 13:43