Elden Ring Samurai Class Guide - How to Build a Samurai (Beginner Guide)

Elden Ring Samurai Class Guide - How to Build a Samurai (Beginner Guide)
In this Elden Ring Build Guide I’ll be showing you my beginner Samurai Build. If you’ve been looking for a good starting Samurai build that uses both Uchigatana and bow to decimate enemies from near and far then you might want to check this build-out.

0:00 - Elden Ring Beginner Samurai Guide
0:45 - Samurai Character Creation
0:59 - Arrow Crafting and Where to Find Them
1:48 - How to Play the Samurai
5:28 - Samurai Equipment
5:59 - Samurai Attributes
8:29 - Final Tips

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[MrStirleewirlee]

I’ve been playing with the samurai build for about 16 hours and the only thing I feel you didn’t cover is when your backing away from a enemy if you jump while holding the bow and fire a shot off mid air it staggers most opponents attacks other than that you covered everything I know, great video!

[pogtuber]

As a first time "souls-like" player I loved starting as this class. I feel like things are probably a little easier early game than another class. It gave me a lot of leeway in learning the game's mechanics of ranged combat, blocking, parrying, and understanding the special ability and how it works.

[truuuupR]

I started with this class. All of my friends tried other classes and are now super jealous. There's nothing like standing there in the unsheathe stance as an enemy barrels toward you just to slice it down in one shot.

[tyjar]

It’s true, unsheathe makes this build what it is. Incredibly strong, I’ve been wrecking later game enemies with it, bleed helps a ton too. Never kept my starter weapon in any souls game but this

[Angelofdeath]

Honestly the Samurai is the way to go so far as stated it is “the easiest build for beginners” can’t stress enough how well balanced it is…Thank you for the video and tips

[havacomment]

Have to say your Elden Ring series has had such a great balance between plenty of great info, but nothing close to spoilers. Very well done! I'm so bad at the Souls games (still absolutely love playing them though), but can't wait to get lost in the open world!

[swamphag]

Really enjoying playing as the Samurai class, the Unsheathe ability really cuts through the bad guys like a hot knife through butter. One thing I just discovered - if you equip the Brass Shield you can use Unsheathed and block with a shield simultaneously. The Brass Shield has no Skill attached to it, so if you combine it with the Uchigatana, then L2 defaults to Unsheathed. I’ve found this a lot easier and smoother than having to fiddle around with the two hands button combo, especially during bosses as you can keep your shield up and get in those opportunistic Unsheathed attacks!

[svanir]

I've been testing each starting class out for around 5-6 levels each just to get the feel for how they'll play (naturally each and every one can be changed down the line, but I like to stay close to their starting archtype to keep with a theme...), and I find the Samurai is indeed the best class for beginners, and looking down the line can be an incredible bleed machine at endgame. Early on, Unsheath is *almost* broken.

[vihta]

I remember finishing my first round of Dark Sould, and in the End I was just battling it out with Gwyn. No dodging, no rolling, no blocking. Just me in the Havels armor swinging a great club, bashing and drinking estus. It wasn't clean...but it was spectacular.

[vexmythclast]

Samurai will be my first class in my first souls like game. Super excited to see how good they actually are in combat. A few more hours I can’t wait.

[Gressil_Dawn_of_Ur_Mom]

You can also find ANOTHER uchigatana in one of the dungeons in the first bit. Try using one on off-hand and using L1 for more bleed build up ( all my ds2 homies love the powerstance)

[loushia]

Thank you so much for blurring the names of bosses. I really want to learn more about the game before starting but I don’t want to get spoiled on what I’ll discover. This helps a ton

[SimpleManGuitars]

I'm an absolute die hard Souls devotee and I've always preferred STR/DEX builds and that's why I picked the Samurai. I love playing a more defensive way and also using pyro and STR/DEX builds are great for that if you use light armor and dodge a lot. It's all risk reward though because it definitely makes you a lot easier to kill quickly in boss fights.

[HazzardThom]

Thanks for your help! Other than a few hours trying DS3 this is my first dive into these games and your character selection, beginner guides, and samurai guides have made what would have been a very frustrating orientation into a lot of fun where I'm able to start enjoying the game right away.

[seanbennett]

I'd suggest getting the eclipse crest shield from the storm dungeon. It has 100% physical block. Low enough strength requirement and no skill so you can still use unsheath.

[peterasencio]

This is exactly the guide I wanted. Thank you!

[Falcis]

You know you are watching the right person when you see that they actually censored the boss names to avoid even the tiniest spoiler.

[Itachigan]

As someone who started off with Samurai, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head when it comes to this class. Some other things to mention is in regarding the parrying technique with the shield to stagger your opponent to get some critical hits in as well as equipping the green turtle talisman to increase your stamina recovery speed since you'll be relying a lot on getting hits in as well as dodge rolling to increase the distance between you and your foe. Other than that, this is a great explanation. Keep up the good work.

[TheRebelGM]

I absolutely love this build! It inspired me to finally start playing the game as a Samurai (after trying a few builds) and love the move set, unsheath is a game changer for this build and combining with the longbow it is brilliantly effective!

[zachariahberger]

I am absolutely enjoying the samurai class in Elden ring and I will be taking these tips with me onto the battlefield thank you for this excellent video!