Quote Originally Posted by scrubp View Post
Recently rolled a Sakuya and was wondering if it's worth it at all to level her up and whatnot. I realize that there will be a future UP decrease to Samurai, but I'm not sure if even something like this provides enough leverage to having her around. She just looks like a nice unit to have around to slaughter a bunch of small little goblins trying to rush down but will be utterly destroyed in any scenario where she ends up blocking two large foes.

I feel like most people wouldn't recommend Samurai at all, but it'd be a real waste if she just sat in my box doing nothing. Are there any particularly hard maps (Nutaku or DMM) where having a samurai would help, or are they even beyond their niche and are just inferior to everything else?
They're niched, yes, the only use that you can find for them is to handle a very large early rush when you can deploy healer but not enough to deploy mage.If you look at Lafate guide for class and army you'll see that he classified them as " Anti-Rush" unit, given the right condition.But generally, a soldier to generate UP(which may cost from 10-Arya to Jerome-11, if you can min-costed them) and a healer(from 15 to 18) is better.