Melee fighting skills

what is the most important skill in 1v1 melee vs. melee combat?

Attack, defence or strength?

-- to clarify, i mean skill(1-99), not bonuses from weapon or wat style of attack to use.

Well yeah it depends what you're looking for.

Attack - Hit more often.
Strength - Hit higher.
Defence - Get hit less often.

Attack is the most important in my opinion. Hitting 0s is the worst thing in a fight.

Id say theyre all equally important. If your melee skills aren't balanced you wont do very well.

If you don't have decent attack, you wont hit very often and that hard earned strength level wont work to its full effect.

Without decent strength, you'll hit constant little hits and you wont be able to pull off that big finishing shot.

And finally if your defense is too low, you'll be getting hit and healing to often and you'll have little time on offense.

So in my opinion, they're all equally important.

I chose attack. It really depends on the situation you are in, but overall attack is the most valuable skill to have. Sure, strength is important, but what is the point of 99 strength if you miss half of the time because you have 70 attack?

Obby maulers are obsolete now, and would thoroughly get creamed in Bounty Hunter. Their strategy was to attack low to no-defence pures, and crush them to death. I'll admit, it did work quite well. However, I've seen fights (pre-Bounty Hunter) when a 1 att, 1 def obby mauler fought the famous Defil3d (99 def, 1 att/str). Defil3d won.

At any rate, I'm picking attack. As someone said earlier, hitting 0's is one of the worst things that can happen in a 1v1 fight.

[In any case, you'd have to clarify these parameters for the fight. If someone was a Strength pure, pretty much their only option would be an Obsidian maul. If Attack, they could use a whip. I'm not a genius, but I'm fairly certain a whip will hit faster, and more accurately than a maul, especially at 99 attack.]

Depends,

To me Str is best. Look an exemple :
Ok I got 99 attack,Deff and 1 str, And I hit 15ish. Rofl you are not going to pwn anyone

Attack is best too,
KK 99 deff,str and 1 attack. Hmmm i can hit 20 but I cant have a better weapon than iron.Dumb...

Deff is good also.
99 str and attack and 1 deff. Perfect pure but look. You might hit 40s but you are going to get EVERY SINGLE HIT from the guy's attacking you.

So its better to have them -almost- equals.

I wont cast my vote as I believe that each one plays a big role in the overall combat system.

But if it was preference, than I would go for defence, it's just my favourite, no idea why.