Samurai gets a way more easy opener with meiyko giving the buffs from jinpu and shifu. Also samu has now the highest potency opener in the entire game and that’s without taking the 13 % from his own buff into account. Without his own buff his burst opener rotation has over 10000 potency in it, that’s pretty bonkers. And yes kaeshi doesn’t give you a meditation stack but they also buffed it from 400 too 580 and kaeshi is 2 stacks every 2 minutes so we lose 1 stack every 2 minutes and ogi gives you atleast 1