As i said before, IMO , samurais are way too expensive in general.

I;d rather use an advance guard for example because while they are weaker on average , they also buff the entire team , can actually be used as gatekeepers and are cheap enough to use in rushes.

In case the UP cost is not an issue , and i still want a blocker that can do aoe damage , and be somewhat tanky , i'd rather take an armor mage. They cost on average 4 more up then samurais (30 up for the plats as oposed to shizuka's 26) , but have better dps....on top of it being magical.




There is no thing in the game that the average samurai can do that another class can;'t do better , which is why a lot of samurais go for some sort of niche ability (like chizuru's foresee , or shizuka's life steal or momiji;s ability to transform into a duelist



I for one have shizuka on my non black account , and i have her resting in my baracks and use jessica instead.