Samurai Class Guide — Tier 5, 30,000 Cores, All 4 Levels

What Samurai actually does

Samurai is a Tier 5 Academy class at 30,000 Cores. Like every class in the game, it hands you starter gear (Samurai Armor Set, Samurai Katana) and then scales through four levels - three personal upgrades and a team bonus at the end.

The Level 1 passive is the identity: +100% Melee Attack Speed. Everything after that builds on the same idea rather than switching lanes.

Level by level

Level 4 is the team bonus - it applies to the whole 30-player server and gates on career total depth, not on anything you do in one run.

Is Samurai worth 30,000 Cores?

At Samurai’s price point the question is never whether the class works - it is whether it fixes a problem you actually have. Tier 5 unlocks cost more than everything below them combined, so buy one when your runs are failing for the specific reason this class solves.

Where it fits in a team

The team bonus is what makes Samurai show up in multiplayer lobbies: +50% Melee Attack Speed. In a 30-player server that is a bonus nobody has to spend their own Cores on, which is why team-first classes get picked even by players who main something else.

For the enemy types where chained melee crits pay off, see the enemies and mutations guide.

If you have not settled your first purchases yet, the all classes page has every Core price, and the best classes tier list explains where Samurai lands against the rest of the roster.