Machete

"A ferocious melee weapon crafted by the Grineer and carried by their elite melee forces."

- In-Game Description

The Machete is a melee weapon released in Update 8, and it can be seen in the hands of Grineer Scorpions. As the Machete is currently undergoing a series of tweaks to its animations and balance, information here may not be fully accurate.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Deals 3x damage to non-Ancient Infested.
 * Final attack of new moveset combo allows two hits in one swing.
 * Staggers Infested Ancients, Corpus and non-heavy Grineer units on every hit.
 * Normal hits has low chance of being interrupted.

Disadvantages:
 * Hits only one enemy. (On rare occasions it may hit a maximum of two enemies per attack. This has been confirmed, but rare occasion must be stressed)
 * Low base damage, equal to Skana.
 * Average charge damage.
 * Has no polarity slots.
 * New moveset often misses an enemy directly ahead on the second strike.
 * Has a small jump attack radius, even compared to most other swords.

Acquisition
The Machete can be purchased for  175 and the blueprint for 25,000.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Trivia

 * Used by the Scorpion.