“All Melee Weapons (except thrown) and Unarmed attacks have a chance of knocking your target down.”— In-game description
Super Slam! is a perk in Fallout: New Vegas.
Effects[]
Taking this perk grants a chance to inflict a "knockdown" effect with Unarmed and Melee Weapon attacks.
Notes[]
- The added chance is 15% per attack with Unarmed or one-handed Melee Weapons, and 30% with two-handed Melee Weapons.
- The perk does not affect automatic melee weapons, such as the Ripper or the chainsaw.
- This perk is one of the few ways to gain challenges related to knock downs in the game. The others are the Ranger Takedown, brahmin tipping, the fire axe, Knock-Knock, and Blade of the West (all three using the Mauler special attack, Blade of the West on crits also), and the companion Rex.
- With fast swinging weapons like Greased Lightning
or the katana with the balanced grip modification, enemies will have an extremely high chance to be knocked down in combat. Mixing in perks like Slayer or Ain't Like That Now 
and Rushing water 
will increase this further. With Turbo or Implant GRX the number of possible hits increases and it becomes much easier to get hits in, due to the slow motion effect affecting everyone except the Courier. - Enemies can be knocked down again even while they are already knocked down. Combining this with a weapon with high rate of attack can lead to situations where the enemy is unable to stand up again until they are killed.
- Knockdowns can occur on killing blows, sending the corpse flying backwards. If this happens at the same time as a Bloody Mess death, disintegrating corpses can be flung unthinkable distances and/or pushed through solid objects.
- If a Melee Weapon- or Unarmed-skilled NPC is knocked down while blocking, due to Super Slam or other causes, all subsequent hits on that fallen character will affect them as if they were blocking.
Bugs[]
- Super Slam may not work with unarmed weapons. [verified]
- Super Slam may not work with DLC unarmed weapons. [verified]
