All these people below are stupid. The perks and Melees are just different enough that you can't compare them. Throwing knife vs shoulder charge? One fills a melee slots but is not actually a melee. One is a perk but acts like a melee. One can be thrown from any distance but ultimately is used and most effective just outside of shotgun/melee range. One cannot be used in panic. You can't really compare shoulder to knives. What you should compare it to is the melee slot of most classes. Which are like arc blade. A strong melee. Now throwing knives are harder to hit because of the distance, which means they should do more damage. But at the same time. If you practice with the knives. You notice they have a large hit box and a skill thrower can basically run around getting headshots at any distance besides long rage. In this case a shoulder charger can run around and use shoulder charge the same as he would use a shotgun while rushing. What they need to do to balance it, is raise damage and skill to use knives. Reward a precision knife with a kill, same damage as shoulder, but greatly reduce hit box around head for knife.