History Main / AmmoUsingMeleeWeapon

* ''VideoGame/RFCKEndlessWar: All combat requires you to spend slime. This includes swords, bats, nun-chucks and scythes. How this works is still up to speculation.

* ''VideoGame/NuclearThrone'': Most melee weapons logically require no ammo whatsoever, but the Jackhammer, Laser Sword, Laser Hammer, and Laser Screwdriver all require ammo, the former using up Explosive ammo, and the latter 3 using Energy Weapon ammo.

* In ''VideoGame/IntoTheBreach'' the [[HumongousMecha Prime]] class weapons Titanite Blade and Mercury Fist both do significant damage but can only be used once per battle, or twice with an upgrade.

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* In ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'', the Chainsaw is the most damaging weapon in the game, able to tear through anything in the game in seconds if you're brave enough to walk up to it and hold down the trigger. But [[RealityEnsues it still runs on gas]], and when it runs out, it's useless. Unfortunately, there's no replenishing it, even with the containers of gasoline you'll occasional find lying around the map.

* All weapons in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' use ammo that can be replenished by picking up the same weapon. This extends to every melee weapon as well, including spears, swords, and signposts.[[note]]Ironically, the sole exception to this is when using a [[KatanasAreJustBetter specific melee weapon]] to fire ranged {{Sword Beam}}s. [[DontExplainTheJoke Thus creating a situation where melee weapons use ammo at all times ''except'' when using ranged attacks.]][[/note]]

* All weapons in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' use ammo that can be replenished by picking up the same weapon. This extends to every melee weapon as well, including spears, swords, and signposts.[[note]]Ironically, the sole exception to this is when using a [[KatanasAreJustBetter specific melee weapon]] to fire ranged {{Sword Beam}}s.[[/note]]

* All weapons in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' use ammo that can be replenished by picking up the same weapon. This extends to every melee weapon as well, including spears, swords, and signposts.[[note]]Ironically, the sole exception to this is a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]], and ''only'' when firing {{Sword Beam}}s.[[/note]]

* All weapons in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' use ammo that can be replenished by picking up the same weapon. This extends to every melee weapon as well, including spears, swords, and signposts.

Prime candidates for this trope are [[ChainsawGood chainsaws]], {{Vibroweapon}}s, {{Hot Blade}}s, {{Laser Sword}}s, {{Rocket Powered Weapon}}s, and {{Flaming Sword}}s. Due to the mostly fictional and generally AwesomeButImpractical nature of these weapons, it is generally not TruthInTelevision, except in cases of power tools being used as [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]].

The inverse of melee {{Emergency Weapon}}s and {{Ranged Emergency Weapon}}s, which are typically much weaker and have the selling point of not using ammo. Sister trope to the more mundane BreakableWeapons, though they can overlap in particularly high maintenance cases. Often an EnhancedArchaicWeapon. If your weapon uses ammo for ranged attacks but is also designed to be used as a melee weapon, it is likely a MixAndMatchWeapon. If it's not designed for melee attacks but you use it for them anyway, that's PistolWhipping.

* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' introduces the so-called "cartridge system" to the series, which is a [[SwissArmyWeapon Device]] upgrade that provides one-off attack boosts by consuming "cartridges" of compressed {{mana}} and has to "reloaded" when empty. Ironically, despite cartridges literally looking like rifle rounds, the first two Devices introduced to use them are a longsword and a warhammer, using ammo to boost melee attacks.

* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' and ''Videogame/Destiny2'' have swords infused with energy that can also fire [[SwordBeam Sword Beams]] and [[ParryingBullets block enemy projectiles]], with both actions draining ammo count depending on the intensity of the move and the sword's guard efficiency, respectively. In the latter game, ''Season of the Warmind'' would revamp swords by removing the ammo drain from blocking, while also tying the guard duration to the energy gauge you also use to launch the sword's special attack.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' gunblades work by firing a round inside the blade and using the now [[{{Vibroweapon}} vibrating blade]] to cut deeper than they could otherwise.

* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' loves this trope for it's [[WhipItGood whips]].

* In ''VideoGame/StarcraftI'', this is how [[spoiler:Fenix]] dies in a {{cutscene}}. He's attacked by a Hyrdalisk, but powers up his Psi-blades to fight back. His blades suddenly flicker out, and the scene cuts out with a clear OhCrap expression on [[spoiler:Fenix's]] face.

* In ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' and ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', the Chainsaw and Crucible sword require ammo, though in Eternal the Chainsaw slowly regenerates up to 1/3 of its full capacity

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Travis Touchdown's beam katanas will gradually run out of battery power, and must be manually re-charged.

The inverse of melee {{Emergency Weapon}}s, which are typically much weaker and have the selling point of not using ammo. Sister trope to the more mundane BreakableWeapons, though they can overlap in particularly high maintenance cases. Often an EnhancedArchaicWeapon. If your weapon uses ammo for ranged attacks but is also designed to be used as a melee weapon, it is likely a MixAndMatchWeapon. If it's not designed for melee attacks but you use it for them anyway, that's PistolWhipping.

* ''Literature/TheScar'': When Uther Doul's Possible Sword is activated, each swing passes through every path that it could potentially have taken. It's LostTechnology and he doesn't have any way to replace the batteries, so he only turns it on for seriously important fights.

* Some 5e TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons weapons have a number of charges that can be expended to produce useful effects, and automatically regain charges at dawn (some of them disappear if the last charge is used).

* Implied in ''TabletopGame/WrathAndGlory''. Because the complications chart for attacks does not distinguish between melee and ranged weapons, even melee weapon can generate the "out of ammo" complication. Plausible with powered weapons like [[ChainsawGood chainswords]] and PowerFists, common enough mainstays in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' gunblades work by firing a round inside the blade and using the now [[{{Vibroblade}} vibrating blade]] to cut deeper than they could otherwise.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', enchanted weapons must be periodically recharged with [[YourSoulIsMine soul gems]] or their enchantments will stop working.

* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' and ''Videogame/Destiny2'' have swords infused with energy that can also fire [[SwordBeam Sword Beams]] and [[ParryingBullets block enemy projectiles]].

* Implied in ''TabletopGame/WrathAndGlory''. Because the complications chart for attacks does not distinguish between melee and ranged weapons, even melee weapon can generate the "out of ammo" complication. Plausible with powered weapons like [[ChainsawGood chainswords]] and [[PowerFists power fists]], common enough mainstays in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''.

* Implied in ''TabletopGame/WrathAndGlory''. Because the complications chart for attacks does not distinguish between melee and ranged weapons, even melee weapon can generate the "out of ammo" complication.