Samurai

[PotatoTree]

1. who actually cares about FL balance?

2. in cc it's one of the worst LBs, basically just a newb trap. Good against casuals but horrible against anyone who knows how to play.

3. use your shields and bait it, and even if you don't have shields if it solo kills you're still ahead cause that sam could have been a mnk player instead doing twice the mnk lb kills a match

Any lb that depends on the enemy team messing up is bad, because eventually players get good enough to not make a mistake and it becomes useless.

[Cidel]

2. in cc it's one of the worst LBs, basically just a newb trap. Good against casuals but horrible against anyone who knows how to play.

Exactly.

It's basically the equivalent of a character from a fighting game with a Dragon Punch special that has a few frames of invincibility that can be spammed and blows up low-tier casuals online because they neither know how to think one step ahead and maybe bait it, or like, stop aimlessly button-mashing and just block it then punish...

It's just a really good n00b trap and people don't like to admit they fell for it/don't recognize it because they can't even be bothered to put in the effort to educate themselves on what the Chiten effect icon looks like on a SAM's status bar to prevent the instant-kill; so they come here to complain about it (probably on alt accounts) instead. Because it's easier to just keep spamming buttons on a SAM at any given time because its there and infront of them then to stop for a few seconds or change targets temporarily; that's why it's broken in low ranks/Casual (and Frontlines).