Best Modern Warfare 3 Tonfa loadout

Looking for the best best Modern Warfare 3 Tonfa loadout? You're in the right place. Melee is a risky choice, but you'll have a fighting chance with the perks, equipment, and accompanying guns we've listed below.

We'll also break down the weapon's chance of breaking into the meta. The Tonfa, like all melee weapons, can be extremely lethal at close range but is often only as good as the loadout around it.

While you're here, get the latest intel on loadouts for the LM-S marksman rifle and Strela-P launcher or get stuck into our extensive Modern Warfare 3 walkthrough hub.

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What is the best Modern Warfare 3 Tonfa loadout?

Being lethal at close range is all well and good, but there are plenty of maps that will give melee users a run for their money with wide sightlines. To compensate, a Crossbow can get some silent medium-range kills while a battle rifle like the BAS-B will deliver decent damage at any range.

We'll need more time with Modern Warfare 3 and its Tonfa to give you a more detailed breakdown. Be sure to revisit this guide later if your own loadout experiments aren't delivering enough kills.

Best Modern Warfare 3 Tonfa perks and equipment

A melee user's life can be difficult but is made easier if perks and equipment are chosen wisely. Below, we've given our expert opinions on the combinations that are best suited to the Tonfa.

Perks

• Vest: Infantry
• Gloves: Quick grip
• Boots: Running sneakers
• Gear: Tac mask

Your vest slot should use the infantry perk. With it, your tactical sprints will carry you further and be recharged faster, turning you into a charging bull that's always to clobber an enemy.

On your gloves, the quick grip perk will prove useful. It makes your weapon swapping faster, making you ready to swap to a gun at a moment's notice.

For a bonus, use your boots slot to equip the running sneakers perk. It increases the duration of your tactical sprint and further reduces its recharge time while providing the faster movement speed of the lightweight perk. Even if an enemy sees you coming, they're dead.

Finally, the gear slot. As most of this loadout is centred around sprinting at enemies, the tac mask perk is most useful. It reduces the effect of enemy flash and stun grenades while providing immunity to shocks, EMPs, and snapshot grenades. Enemies won't slow you down anytime soon.

Equipment

• Lethal: Semtex
• Tactical: Battle Rage

When enemies become aware of your strategy, they'll try to outrun you. The Semtex is a sticky grenade with a large explosion that can attach to enemies, taking care of that problem easily. Conversely, battle rage will regenerate health and tactical sprint while providing resistance to equipment, making you a terrifying presence.

Is the Modern Warfare 3 Tonfa meta?

Limited range puts melee weapons like the Tonfa in the 'very unlikely to join the meta' category. It isn't the most exciting weapon to look at, either - stylish players will likely prefer the Dual Kamas if they're packing a melee weapon. The meta is difficult to predict, so we'll have to see which melee weapons rise in the weeks to come.

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