Samurai
April 4, 2017
15:32
The good news: Great vitality and raw power and has one of the most powerful command abilities in the game in !GilToss.  Instant Kill available with no resource expenditure, on demand.
The bad news: Eats money for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack
Strength
+19
Agility
+2
Vitality
+19
Magic
-12
Hands
Daggers
Katanas
Armor
Heavy Headgear
Heavy Armor
Medium Armor
Heavy Accessories
Command
!Zeninage
Abilities
Level
AP
Ability
Innate
Equip Stats
Description
1
10
!Mineuchi
No
The function of this skill changes depending on which version you are playing.
SNES/GBA: Doesn't do what it claims.  Instead, it only performs a normal attack with a single special property: It doesn't dispel ailments that would be dispelled by physical attacks (Sleep/Charm/Control).  This COULD be very, very powerful in the right situation.
iOS: This skill works as claimed, dealing a normal attack for half damage and attempting to inflict Paralysis.
2
30
!Zeninage
No
!Zeninage sacrifices a an amount of Gil to do a certain amount of Damage to all enemies.  This is entirely based on the user's level, but despite this, !Zeninage is amazingly powerful, especially early on.  This attack is not influenced by rows or any other abilities, and always hits - the only counteraction for it is that enemy defense does still count here.
Gil Consumed: (Level * 50) per enemy present
Damage Dealt: (10 + Level - Enemy Defense) * 150
(Yes, that's seriously up to 1650 damage at level 1, and +150 for every level thereafter)
Gil Toss deals 0 damage if you don't have the cash.
3
60
Sword Catch
Yes
Automatically applies a 33% chance to block physical attacks while equipped.  Great for facing a physical boss. This stacks with weapons, shields, and accessories that enhance physical evasion (Such as Guardian Dagger and Elf Cape), which can make the Samurai nearly immune to physical damage!
4
180
Equip Katana
No
Strength +19
Enables the use of the Samurai's unique weapon class.  Katanas are actually fairly powerful, generally being stronger than other weapons at a similar location in the game even before their chance to Critical Hit!
5
540
!Iainuki
No
Overpowered as hell in random encounters.  !Slash should read !Zantetsuken, frankly.  It has an 85% base chance (as per Magic Accuracy, see that section) of instant killing every enemy - IGNORING enemy immunity to instant death if successful!
Note that !Slash does not work on Heavy enemies, which is most bosses.
Success Strategy
Enjoy having really powerful weapons in Katanas
Enjoy dealing huge amounts of damage via Zeninage
Enjoy instant killing entire enemy random encounters via !Iainuki
Enjoy life, you drew Samurai
Special Equipment
Katanas are the Samurai's unique weapon class.  They are almost identical to swords, using the same damage formula, accuracy, can be thrown, and can be double gripped.  The differences?  Katanas can't be used with !Magic Sword.  On the flip side, Katanas are the one weapon class other than fighting unarmed that have a constant, class-spanning chance to deal Critical Hits.  Critical Hits deal damage with twice the Attack Power, and completely ignore enemy Defense!
Weapon
Attack Power
Critical Hit Chance
Where to find
Notes
Ashura
42
12%
Found: Act 1, Tycoon
Bought: Act 2, Jacole/Regole/Bal/Quelb
Wind Slash
44
12%
Found: Act 2, Drakenvale
Enhances the power of Wind abilities while equipped
On attack, 12% chance of instead performing Wind Slash (90 Magic Power Wind damage spell vs. all enemies)
Osafune
51
12%
Bought: Act 2, Surgate
Kotetsu
58
12%
Found: Act 2, Exdeath's Castle (Final visit)
Kiku-Ichimonji
87
12%
Bought: Act 3, Phantom Village/Dwarf Kingdom
Murasame
97
25%
Steal: Act 3, sea north of Phantom Village, Rukh
Masamune
107
15%
Found: Act 3, Legendary Weapon
Equip & Use: Casts Haste
Begin battle with instantly full ATB
Murakumo
117
20%
Steal: Interdimensional Rift, Castle Roof, Yojimbo
Steal: Interdimensional Rift, NeoExdeath (front part)
You can steal it from Neo Exdeath, but the only ones that get to keep it are the GBA players (It will persist after the credits on your file!)