How to Build the Best Samurai in Ghost of Tsushima’s Legends

Ghost of Tsushima Legends opens a different world for players. Now, Ghost of Tsushima fans can enjoy playing the game with their friends, using their favorite factions. Samurai, Assassins, Ronin, and Hunter players can be anything based on their preferences, but before they choose, they should be aware of the characteristics and build of that class. So, if you are willing to be a samurai, let’s check out the best samurai builds.

Samurai is one of the most versatile classes in Ghost of Tsushima Legends. If you combine the abilities, weapons, and perks of the samurai, they are tanks that deal massive damage while having the passive ability to heal themselves. In this guide, we will discuss the best samurai build, including their best abilities, weapons, and stances.

Best Samurai Skills

Samurais are aggressive fighters. So, their class abilities will mostly include offensive skills to initiate heavy damage and drain a chunk of their enemies’ health. However, that doesn’t mean that, as samurai, players can let go of their defense. That’s not recommended either. Therefore, considering both sides, we have chosen the following abilities to serve both purposes in the game:

• Spirit Pull
• Defender
• Heavenly Strike
• Explosive Blade
• Resolve Increase
• Hachiman’s Frenzy

On this list, the first three skills are defensive skills that help players survive during fights. The final three skills are offensive skills to deal massive damage to enemies. Let’s check them out in more detail. Spirit Pull is all about passive healing ability. This ability increases the overall survivability of the players by enabling them to drain health from surrounding enemies to revive their lost HP.

The next ability, which is the Defender ability, grants players a +25 increase in their base health. This ability is always one of the best defense abilities to combine with Spirit Pull and give players prolonged survivability. 

Coming to the next and final defensive ability on the list, called the Heavenly Strike, gives players lightning-fast speed, so they can flash through the enemy with a single horizontal slash of the blade. The enemy won’t even get a chance to prepare if you launch Heavenly Strike. Because of its unblockable nature, the enemy can’t block or parry this attack. So, with this, samurai can take down some heavily armored enemies within a few seconds.

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Among the offensive skills, first we will discuss the Explosive Blade. This is the complete opposite of Spirit Pull. if you launch this attack, melee attacks with the swords will explode and deal massive damage to the enemy upon hitting them. This attack is one of the best attacks to break the guard of the enemy.

Resolve Increase is one of the essential attacks to prepare for emergency situations. This ability helps players grant a +1 increase to the resolves of the players which ultimately contributes to controlling the battle with more damage options. 

Hachiman’s Frenzy is one of the ultimate blows players can use to tear enemies apart during a fight. Precisely, this ability enables players to add two extra strikes to the blazing Hachiman’s Fury and take down even the most challenging enemies. Though this ability can help you clear an enemy wave faster, this skill works better on individual enemies, especially heavily armored, challenging foes.

Best Samurai Stances

Playing an action-adventure game without weapons doesn’t sound convincing. So, definitely, Ghost of Tsushima Legends mode won’t ask you that. Instead, for the samurai build, they have prepared a few potent weapons that one should not miss. While the sword will be their primary weapon, some stances are there to make the fight smoother for a samurai:

• Moon Stance
• Water Stance
• Stone Stance
• Wind Stance

As you have already checked this list out, let’s check out the stances in detail. Talking about the Moon Stance, these are heavy attacks to deal with enemies like Oni. The more you progress through the game, the more players will face higher-level enemies like Oni, who can’t be dealt with other stances except for the Moon Stance. These heavy attacks stagger and deal massive damage to these brute enemies.

The next stance we are going to talk about is the Water Stance, which is another heavy attack to perform. Water Stance is mostly effective against unprotected enemies, but these attacks are equally powerful against Brutes, Spearmen, Shieldsmen, and Swordsmen. With this stance, samurai can easily break the shields of these enemies to make them vulnerable.

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Stone Stance is the next one to discuss. This is another heavy stance to deal with powerful enemies, especially the swordsmen. This stance is comparatively weaker than the others, but still, it works magically against these enemies. If players use it correctly, it staggers swordsmen quickly, and in the third stab, it does tons of damage to the staggered enemies. 

The final stance to use as a samurai is the Wind Stance. This is arguably the best stance players can have in the game as samurai. Again, this stance is for those enemies that initially players find tough to deal with. Almost every enemy type can be dealt with this stance, except for Oni and Brutes. On the contrary, this works best against spear users. 

Best Samurai Ghost Weapons

Ghost Weapons are a kind of optional piece of equipment to have in Ghost of Tsushima Legends. Though players mostly require them in certain situations, they need to be prepared with the best Ghost Weapons:

• Sticky Bombs
• Kunai
• Healing Gourd

Sticky Bombs are the best option when players reach a point where they need to stun enemies. Throw a sticky bomb at them without much thought, and you will get some more time to strengthen your defense or deal damage to them easily without resistance.

Next is Kunai, which is great equipment to pair with explosive blade ability. This combination is deadly because when the Explosive Blade is paired with Kunai, it staggers enemies for a long time, allowing samurai to deal more explosive damage.

Coming to Healing Gourd, players who are trying to be massively aggressive should pair Kunai with Healing Gourd to deal more damage to enemies. These two perks pair well with the Explosive Blade ability. 

That’s the most suitable build for players who want to start a samurai journey in Ghost of Tsushima Legends. Because melee attacks are the central attacks in samurai builds, these abilities and perks will go well with them. 

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