Melee-Only games - Why is it Pay2Win?

Just getting back into this game again from a lengthy hiatus.
I'm quite appalled at how impossible Melee-only games are to even get a positive score in with a knife.

Why is Melee-only games a case of "I paid for my Axe / Spade so now I win against you 95% of the time, unless you get lucky".

This isn't the case in normal games, with weaponry. Yes paid weapons are stronger, but it's generally in more subtle ways like silencers or bigger clips.

But I find myself getting terrible scores, because almost all of them has spades or axes. I can't even get off my stab before they 1 shot drop me.

And it's definitely not a case of I'm rusty, because when versing knifers I do extremely well.

Back when this game only had knives, I was getting such good scores I was endlessly getting kicked and accused of hacking.

But now there's spades and axes, I find myself almost getting kicked for terrible scores every round.

With just knives, my best score was 35-2. In games against spades and axes, my best score was 4-19

All my kills I get now is due to luck; they either missed or didn't 1 shot me, so my stab actually can hit so I can 1 shot them first.

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