This is the Oda fight on Very Hard difficulty on a level 43 cyberweeb build. I had to equip a level 1 weapon (Black Unicorn), unequip Legendary Short Circuit and sandbag like crazy because he dies too quickly otherwise. Was kind of surprised how much damage a level 1 weapon does. The second video shows how quickly he dies if you have Satori + Legendary Short Circuit:
Sandbagged fight:
What happens when you use a real weapon + legendary short circuit:
My build planner looks like this:
Cyberweeb build | Cyberpunk 2077 | Nukes & Dragons
Only got 3 body in the video however. Its a maxed blades/cold blood build where you use a Cyberdeck with Legendary Short Circuit to add a tonne of shock damage to your blades strikes. Cripple Movement/Reboot Optics is also really strong support for early game melee and very strong late game if you play stealth blades. With the legendary passives, they give you massive aoe lockdown so enemies can't see, move or attack.
Because it has Critical Error, it can also be played as a pure netrunner and you don't really lose anything since Anamnasis and all top level perks do not work currently. You can equip Netdriver and one hit KO everything with contagion if you like, but playing a ninja assassin is more fun.
Key Cyberware:
Reinforced Tendons - This lets you double jump so you can be like Genji from Overwatch. Melee doesn't get really good until you can engage with verticality.
Maneuvering System - This lets you air dodge which can be used to accelerate like crazy if you are not restricted by the size of the room. See here for how you can use it when you have space:
Kerenzikov - This gives you bullet time on dodge which can be used to suddenly stop in mid air and prevent overshoots when air dodging. Can be used while jumping out of the dodge to gain tremendous acceleration and do insane long jumps. Also looks and feels really cool.
Key Perks:
Body/Athletics - Like a Butterfly + Marathoner - these remove stamina cost for dodging and sprinting which means you can air dodge forever. You can play without it but you have to double jump -> air dodge and you can do maybe 5 of these before you run out of stamina? Its more than enough for any combat encounter but if you want to move around the city and parkour you need both perks.
Reflexes/Blades - Shifting Sands - this recovers 25% stamina on dodge so as long as you stay mobile in fights, you will never run out of stamina no matter how often you swing or get guard crushed.
Intelligence/Breach Protocol - Advanced Datamining + Datamine Virtuoso - The first one lets you farm mad cash very early in the game so you can trick yourself out with Cyberware early. The main one is to get Reinforced Tendons ASAP. The second perk is for save scumming legendary quickhacks. Shock proc from Legendary Short Circuit contributes roughly half of your total unbugged damage output at level 50. The reason for saying unbugged is that the Reflexes/Blades perk "Defensive Offense" is bugged and applies its 3x damage multiplier to your strong attacks. Needless to say, this is completely broken.
The rest are just passive damage buffs for the most part.
I only wish more enemies behaved like Oda and more gang members had cyberware and melee weapons. Also crank their hp and damage like crazy because the game does not require you to practice your block timings. Thats why I miss like 75% of them on sandbag Oda - never practiced and never had to. Its a shame because I think melee combat is one of the best aspects of the core gameplay.
If you could kick off walls to change directions, perhaps wallrun to a limited extent and enemies were much, much harder, I think melee combat would be completely nuts. Enemies need leaps and gap closers with visual tells and they need to tunnel onto you with melee weapons forcing you to block counter or dodge. They need to move around a lot more and do so much faster.
You can sometimes see enemies in NC with cyberware where they do bullet dodges or they activate a sandevistan so they briefly zoom around really fast, but its so rare. Considering how borged up many gangoons are, I think it would make sense for them to do stuff like this. Oda would have to come up a notch though to keep that x-factor he has on first playthrough.