Hellbent4812622if the escape plan was balanced and every other melee besides the whip was shit
just give the shitty melees a gimped speed-boost on top of their normal stats
in 6s yes.
We can't look at it from only a 6s standpoint. All the other melees have their uses except for a few, just like every other class in the game.
the market gardener is gimmicky in every form of tf2, the zatoichi's downside makes it a liability (this would be so fucking cool with speed), and people only use the pain train so the soldier can go do nothing on the cart while the scout goes out and kills stuff, the equalizer and stock shovel are actually useless
it's not the escape plan's fault that the other melees are trash, if you want sidegrades, you should have equally-viable sidegrades balanced with the game, not equally-shitty ones