Thread: Samurais - what am i missing?

Samurais now are what Heavy Infantry wants to be (when incoming barrage does not actively need their skill to survive). A perfect mid-game blocker who can hold a lane on their own most of time. And even facing heavier opposition, their skills usually give them some tool to increase their survival rate, be it self-heal, dodge or just outright monstrous attack to murderize everything before it can hurt you too much.
Personally, only Heavy I still use is SAW Deine, and even she does not see much fights, and most of the time my go-to blocker is my trusty AW Shizuka. Nobody can stand before her blade!

You don't see them much in Common Units runs because, well, Common Units. For the long time Samurais weren't available much, and even now first guaranteed Samurai comes from the Eastern Kingdom map, so core classes what everybody guaranteed to have are used by guide makers over them to make sure most users can replicate the strategies easier.

i guess it;s a matter of preference in the end , but as i said , i don't like them that much.

Between paladins (black knights) , mage armors and advance strategists , i don't see which niche samurais fill. Armored mages are generally heavier on the defense and while their aoe dps is skill dependent , they are straight up better dps during skill use.
Dark knights are very tanky 2 blockers. They don;t clear as fast as samurais , but they can actually tank more then just medium strenght mobs.
And the likes of uzume and shuka can be used easily on the weak mobs that tend to rush and still benefit the team with their skills.

Youll never see thier use until you use her and thats the problem with people, they dont use them. Thats ok though, i mean... there are so many classes in this game. Just recognize that people who do use them actualy disagree with the common consensus. I have grace and diina, i often do not need to place a tank to tank something as i straight blow it up and if one is needed, diina and grace are already there. But those are shrine blacks. Shizuka for one is cheaper then them and as Zerozet is saying they are straight out better heavys as long as the heavys skill is not requierd.