Samurai Buff

[Bhearil]

In paper SAM LB is fine because it punishes mistakes, in reality is a complete mess because the netcode is wonky as hell and sometimes you gonna eat the 1 hit kill AOE LB no matter what. It really needs some rebalance to avoid people feel cheated because they know what to do and servers says "fuck you" to them

[Sawamura]

It's still a threat at high ranks, but like with DRG's LB, you have to be clever in your execution, like waiting for cleave damage to come out, or when players are distracted and won't notice the Chiten buff/animation.

In high rank samurai isn't much threat. During samurai gimmick is own weakness. So it is need to play clever for win.
In low rank samurai is threat. During people don't understand their own or enemy job. So samurai it is a very good job for people to learn their mistake with not pay attention. Just like people try to burst down a full hp dragon who hit them with Horrid Roar 50% reduce damage.

In paper SAM LB is fine because it punishes mistakes, in reality is a complete mess because the netcode is wonky as hell and sometimes you gonna eat the 1 hit kill AOE LB no matter what. It really needs some rebalance to avoid people feel cheated because they know what to do and servers says "fuck you" to them

Funny story I almost never eat sam lb in CC/FL with EU and NA anymore. Special with NA during I has latency issue. The only reason I eat sam lb cause I bait sam away from group.



Back to topic
Samurai toolkit is strong. But easy counter it is true.
I do feel samurai def is weak compare to another melee.
Increase 10% or 8% Chiten would be nice to have since this is samurai only instant def cd.
Or
Ogi Namikiri change to 1 target requirement instead of 2 for shield. Kaeshi namikiri can remain same with 2 target for extra shield.