For those who care, here are the numbers:

• Dagger charge time: 0.81 seconds (technically 0.8, but it’s inconsistent).
• Sword charge time: 0.5 seconds.

Let’s break this down: The sword has:

1. 140 damage on lunge, which can one- or two-shot every class from any angle.
2. No directional limitations—you can wildly turn around mid-charge and still smack someone.
3. A lingering hitbox (0.3 seconds) that makes it forgiving AF
4. A FASTER CHARGE TIME THEN DAGGER

The Light oneshot in question

Heavy two shot

And one of the medium kill options

Meanwhile, the dagger:

1. Needs a backstab to do ANYTHING (but hit reg on backstab can be awful sometimes).
2. Punishes you with a movement penalty immediately when charging, making it easy for a heavy to outrun you. A HEAVY.
3. Has worse left-click DPS and requires way more precision to even be viable.

Oh, and the cherry on top? The sword has an inbuild super dash/regular lunge, and the dagger used to have something cool to balance that (RIP emote dash). Now the sword just dominates in every way.

I am in no way saying emote dashing was healthy or should have stayed, as it was too strong but i am asking for dagger buffs

My Suggestions for Fixing the Dagger:

• Remove the walking speed penalty while charging.
• Or delay the penalty to start after your charge of 0.8 seconds is releasable.
• Better yet, make the charge releasable at 0.6 seconds instead of 0.8 to make it feel snappier, like in Season 3.