Poleaxes are a type of Weapon in Salt and Sanctuary. They require the Pikeman Skill in order to use them.
Move Sets
1-handed
Light: Regular forward thrust.
Heavy: Overhead slash.
Heavy → Heavy: Overhead slash followed by an overhead slam.
Light → Heavy: Thrust into weak uppercut. Uses little stamina and does little damage. Can combo into air attacks.
Heavy → Light: Overhead slash into strong uppercut. Heavier damage and stamina use. Can combo into air attacks.
Light (Air): Regular forward thrust.
Heavy (Air): Strong slam attack.
Light → Light + UP: Thrust followed by quickly twirling the weapon above your head.
Light → Light → Light + DOWN: Two thrusts followed by a weak uppercut. Can combo into air attacks.
Light → Light → Heavy: Two thrusts followed by a lunging thrust.
Light → Light → Heavy → Heavy: Two thrusts followed by two lunging thrusts.
2-handed
Light: Regular forward thrust.
Heavy: Regular forward slash.
Light → Heavy: Jab into uppercut. Can combo into air attacks.
Heavy → Light: Slash into strong uppercut. This uppercut does more damage and costs more stamina. Can combo into air attacks.
Light (Air): Regular forward thrust.
Heavy (Air): Strong slam attack.
Heavy → Light + UP: Slash then spins the weapon around your head.
Light → Light → Heavy: Two thrusts followed by a windmill spin attack while walking forward.
Light → Light → Heavy → Light: Thrust, thrust, windmill attack, thrust.
Light → Light → Heavy → Heavy: Two thrusts, windmill attack, followed by quickly twirling the weapon above your head.
Light → Light → Light + UP: Two thrusts followed by quickly twirling the weapon above your head.
Heavy → Heavy → Light: Two slashes followed by a strong overhead smash.
Poleaxes
| Name & Icon | Attack | Str Scaling |
Dex Scaling | Wis Scale | Special | Wgt | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Oar |
6.0 | S | C | - | Wood Staff | 6 | 0 |
 Infantry Pollaxe |
12.0 | B | B | - | None | 9 | 1 |
 Guardsman's Halberd |
22.0 | D | E | - | Slow Hitter | 11 | 2 |
 Naginata |
16.0 | - | B | - | Extra Blades | 10 | 3 |
 Kumo Sasumata |
18.0 | B | D | - | Charm Move/Slow Hitter | 16 | 3 |
 Headsman's Voulge |
18.0 | - | S | - | Slide | 10 | 4 |
 Tainted Ranseur |
20.0 | E | B | - | Extra Blades | 11 | 5 |
 Trinity Bardiche |
9.0/9.0 | E | B | S | Holy | 18 | 5 |
Anonymousi saw a steam community guide on combos and they thought there was only 1 combo for 1h
- Anonymous
Are there typos in 'Extra blades'? Poleaxes are pure slash weapons as mentioned in `Weapons` page.
- Anonymous
Poleaxe heavy attack seems to not deal increased damage. You will often see actually doing little more damage with light attacks. Tested this with Naginata and Guardmen's halberd
- Anonymous
Is this class pure Slash? Or a mix like greatwords and axes?
- Anonymous
Triangle + Square UP + Square DOWN is the killer scythe combo poleaxe edition. (It's literally the same movements)
- Anonymous
Poleaxes are my least recommended Weapon-type to start with in the game, because none of them have a satisfying scaling/attack damage and their reach doesn't make up for their cons. On top of that the point in the game in which you get the "good" ones is completely *****ed, you have to play with the Infantry Pollaxe (if you even found it) up until the Red Hall of Cages and the ***** that you find afterwards is still garbage. Because of this weapon-type I stopped playing because I didn't want to start over, as I didn't focus on collecting Reapers or Spears.
whats funny is that the infantry pollaxe is actually a halberd, the guardsmen halberd is actually a pollaxe, the tainted ranseur is actually a spetum, and the trinity bardiche is another halberd
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