Samurai needs love

[Saucy_Jack]

24k is half a healthbar. IMO half a health bar in an AoE for using it suboptimally without kuzushi condition applied is not too weak

You don’t need to kill 5 players with it to win a fight, and you don’t even need to use it immediately to get effect out of it. Even when people watch LB charge and try to play around it, just holding onto it and chiten gives you a lot of control and safety, not to mention the picks you get when you do use it. Every single ability that’s pointed at the SAM and every AoE that might even clip the SAM is potentially instant death with the two up. When they do use it it’s still often multiple kills, and honestly even one or two kills is enough to turn the tide in a team fight anyway.

There is counterplay, but the counterplay is in many cases limited to letting the SAM freely attack your team while the abilities are up/cucking yourself from using your strong AoEs. This is definitely abusable by the SAM player, and rewards them for a correct read on exactly how long/how much the other team will hold back on trying to play around it.

Right now it’s either instantly game winning or only moderately effective depending on how well it’s used, with both effective counterplay available for the enemy team and mindgames available for good SAM players to take advantage of said counterplay for their own benefit. That’s not a bad state for it to be in.