Master the blade.
The Samurai style in Nioh 3 is much closer to the methodical, more hardy, planted sword master that you’d expect from a soulslike, at least compared to the shadowy ninja. However, Nioh 3’s samurai has one defining factor that makes it hard to get to grips with for newcomers: Ki Pulse.
Ki is effectively your stamina, and you’ll soon be breathless if you start flailing around as the samurai. So much so that I barely used the warrior early on in favour of the ninja, where I simply overwhelmed the enemy with a flurry of attacks and dodged here, there, and everywhere.
The Ki Pulse is how samurai manage their stamina, requiring you to press the right bumper on a controller at the correct time during combos to recover Ki.
