Samurai

The Samurai is an Attacker Type unit unlocked at Player Level 3, costing 4.

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 Description : “Knocks down all units that are in the way of the IAI (quick draw) attack. Effective against grouped targets and shields.”

Samurai units have fairly low HP and quite high damage. Its priority targets are melee units.

Samurai is currently one of the two units in game that can knock down shields, the other is Blast Gunner.

Skills
Samurai can do an iai attack, which does not deal more damage, but consists in dashing forward in a short distance unsheating its katana on enemy units in range (this attack has some attack radius), knocking them back and blasting away their shields. This attack leaves enemy units temporarily stunned, often allowing the samurai to get another hit in before retaliation. This is highly effective against grouped units or shielded units.

The Samurai has also a minor skill: after succesfully killing/destroying its target (or it being destroyed/killed by friendly units), if the next objective it locks on is further than three tiles away, this unit sheathes back its weapon and charges at the new target, ready to perform another iai attack. Also, the dash can prevent it from being harmed by ranged bullets, if the timing is right.

Weapons
Scabbard Sword: slightly increases attack and defense.

Umbrella Sword: trades some hitpoints for more speed.

Fish Sword: slightly increases attack, can freeze enemies at max level.

Sharp Sword: increases hitpoints and attack power at a slightly higher cost. Also boosts iai damage at higher levels.

Saber: Trades movement speed and attack power for significantly more defense.

Curse Sword: trades some attack power for the ability to inflict the curse debuff.

Ōdachi: largely increases hitpoints and significantly increases attack power, and replaces the iai with the Tate-giri (more powerful than regular attack), at a largely higher cost.

Magic Sword: hugely increases hitpoints and enables the Magic Slash attack, which summons additional swords in the air to strike enemies (needs verification).