ELITE SAMURAI vs EVERY UNIQUE UNIT | AoE II: Definitive Edition

The Samurai is the unique unit of the Japanese in Age of Empires II. It is a fast-attacking infantry unit with an attack bonus against other unique units.
Samurai can be upgraded to Elite Samurai in the Imperial Age.
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[@augustuswade9781]

Cataphrhacts: "Don't know where you're from but you won't beat me if you ain't riding something"

[@ashishanand8010]

Laughs in Chu ko Nu

[@mattender8323]

@@ashishanand8010 Not really, they lose equal numbers.

[@kartiknikam3423]

Kronik 🤣

[@someguy2744]

Halberdiers: Pump your breaks, kid.

[@gregbowen2477]

@@someguy2744 Cataphracts stomp halberdiers hard: kzbin.info/www/bejne/raSye5d6e555f7c

[@Anthonypoon_]

5 minutes into the video - “wtf am I doing with my life?”

[@thechosenone8288]

Lol, I just thought the same, it's like "¿What I'm doing here? Well, I already see half of the video so, anyway"

[@kshitizgupta3264]

I reached there in 3

[@manfromdownunder8407]

11

[@j9021992]

i only made it to 4 mins

[@Ω3103ζ]

literally me just now, actually need to learn for my exams but oh this could be interesting

[@RoTz0101]

The fact that you don't even need to micro mangudais to win this fight is insane. What a strong unit.

[@noobatron2663]

Same with the Mameluke. Now realize that the mams can shred through paladins and siege even faster.

[@RoTz0101]

​@@noobatron2663 True, good unit aswell, but they are more expensive & more countereable than mangudai. Also not as strong

[@chrisarmstrong8082]

Came here to say this!!!

[@michael10613]

mongol main ever since back in the day lmao

[@samsonsandeep77]

War Elephants: we were supposed to be facing someone today.. where are they..

[@Tirajis]

Except monks and halbs there is not a Single thing they won't beat lol

[@TovKafur]

@@Tirajis They beat even halbs on 1:1 basis. Literally every single other unit normally obtainable in game is weaker.

[@Tirajis]

@@TovKafur yeah but if you are able to pump out elephants at the same rate your opponent is making halbs the game is over anyway lol

[@kevindaly6436]

Resource cost on elephants are stupid high. But they are strongest UU by far

[@gamersouls5021]

GamerSouls on KZbin

[@jontyzuala]

Didn't expect them to beat the Teutonic Knights...that AB vs other unique units must be crazy

[@ljss6805]

+5

[@littlejibari]

I experimented this in og aoe2, teutonics won

[@unnamedindividual7135]

Teutonics failed micro management... they move around like chicken...

[@epicsheepgamer7002]

I found that it can go both ways (when going according to equal numbers, not sure about equal resources though)

[@truebeliever786]

@@epicsheepgamer7002 With even numbers, the higher the number, the more likely the Samurai win. Samurai are quick and fight well together, whereas Teutonic Knights are slow. 1v1 Teutonic Knight wins, but 15v15 or say, 100v100, Samurais win.

[@AxenfonKlatismrek]

Samurai, Which unique unit you counter against? Samurai: Yes

[@eget4144]

Actualy they only counter a few of them

[@pope00]

@@eget4144 u mean all, in theory. In the battlefield well, they counter better some than others because of the other units bonuses ;). Samurai vs Jaguar warrior (unique unit bonus vs infantry unit bonus), theay are practically equal

[@tomselleck6912]

@@pope00 No because Japanese attack 33% faster, so while Jaguars do more damage per hit Samurai hits faster and does more damage overall, Jaguars does 31 dmg per swing against infantry, Samurai do 28 damage but do 33% more attacks in the same span of time. Of course Jaguars are much better because they counter all infantry and the Japanese anti unique bonus is not as useful as a lot of UU counter infrantry hardly like Cataphracts or most archer units.

[@1xXx2012xXx1]

According to this video any elephant UU can destroy them

[@TMoDDD]

Cataphract still you cant touch this.

[@johanneskramer9490]

3:20 one of the most brutal fights in AoE 2

[@shankhadeepmandal978]

What UU was that???

[@johanneskramer9490]

@@shankhadeepmandal978 Samurai vs Jaguar Warrior (Both with bonus vs Infantry)

[@shankhadeepmandal978]

@@johanneskramer9490 👍👍👍

[@teutonicknight533]

*Top 10 anime battles*

[@oossgl]

The Samurai wins because it has faster attack rate, but yeah what an epic fight

[@MrPakurfulo]

I feel this should have been balanced using resource cost

[@Martigx]

x2 in that way, war elephants are not invincible.

[@jeffery_tang]

War elephants would still win most matchups, thats how good they are vs unique units

[@eget4144]

Japanese have one of the best counter againts war elephants in the game. They wont use sams in persian matchup.

[@Ragensu64]

@@eget4144 and good persian players won't use war elephant to counter infantry when they can just mass archer units with zero gold cost due to their unique tech and overrun Japanese base with nothing but archers, like an army of goth but ranged.

[@RV-rv9nv]

@@Ragensu64 and good japanese players wont use halbs and samu against the archers of persians but skirms which are pretty good from japanese. So it will depend who is the better player.

[@Pandadude-eg9li]

Samurai, one of the most useful UUs if your opponent is churning his out. Remember to utilize halbs and maybe a few capped rams to assist.

[@Pandadude-eg9li]

@@eget4144 And then you realize why I said capped rams and halbs should be added.

[@eget4144]

@@Pandadude-eg9li remove samurai and add champions to your halb+rams. When sams work: Your enemy have to utilise UU Their UU is melee For example: Bulgarians have to use koniks. This kind of scenarions are very rare.

[@Pandadude-eg9li]

@@eget4144 That's just it, Samurai counter Catas, and if there are Champions instead of Samurai... No more army, you lose. You can even garrison the units in the capped ram while archers fire to screw with the enemy even further.

[@catrielmarignaclionti4518]

@@Pandadude-eg9li oh, samurai wins champ

[@XDark8SlayerX]

@@Pandadude-eg9li samurai dont even counter cataphracts. They get destroyed. You make samurai to counter unique units except catas, war elephants, war wagons and ranged units. For everything else you use champions because they are easier to mass because you only need barracks as opposed to castles, and champions also have the added benefit of shredding trash units because of their bonus damage against them.

[@chrispaynter]

Samurai: your elephants don't stand a chance Persian elephants: puh! Not a monk in sight, too easy!

[@flyingdeathcatsgo]

*cries in not having Heresy*

[@JP_Wu]

2:30 It's funny because in the Teutonic Knight video, the Samurais lose.

[@punbug4721]

Just shows it can go either way with micro.

[@octaviosanchez6923]

When they win by 2,3,4 units. It's just a tie. U run it again and they lose, again and they win. A tie.

[@LegendKingY2j]

that shows that both units are the same as powerful in numbers but i'm not sure 1 on 1, similar to Aztec jaguar warriors

[@LegendKingY2j]

and in the Mangudai's case obviously the Mangudai would win in a normal match because they won't just stay still, they shot and retreat, kinda the same for most of archer civilizations and mamluks

[@zothanzualachhangte3416]

Was thinking the exact same thing

[@jkoiranen]

I was really surprised how well they did against some of the cavalry units...

[@evilorkie]

You should put them against each other in resources worth.

[@TheHadMatters]

Yeah, I don't play the game, but the numbers versus elephants and artillery just didn't look remotely like a situation that should happen in the game.

[@sezzo]

The fight against Teutonic Knight could go either way...

[@jaishkhan7442]

Same with Jaguars

[@roelofsonneveld1049]

@@jaishkhan7442 i think generally samurai are just a bit better, I’m not sure about cost-efficiency though

[@jaishkhan7442]

@@roelofsonneveld1049 Yeah Jaguars are the worst unique infantry

[@mmargad.e]

@@jaishkhan7442 lmao why bro. It has the highest infantry damage

[@TovKafur]

@@mmargad.e They have very little utility. Champs (especially Aztec) already have high damage, rivalled only by heavy cavalry like Paladins, but they still lose badly to most popular units (mass archers, heavy cavalry, and so on). Jags are better against infantry, but that's not something that helps Champ-like, because you don't make infantry to kill infantry, unless you face pikes (which Aztecs will never do), neither it fixes any of its weaknesses, while being harder to mass and more expensive. That's why Huscalrs, being quite weak and expensive, are good UU whereas Jags are bad: Huskarls are infantry that is basically immune to traditional counter whereas keeping all strong sides (fast building razing, countering trash, being light on gold and spammable).

[@anthonyj2673]

Unique unit: * exists * Samurai: "Omae wa mo shindeiru"

[@utterlyhollow5377]

Anthony Aguilar ccccceeeeeeeeeeept cataphract

[@FuelDropforthewin]

And War Elephant

[@eget4144]

This video is not accurate. Sams cant counter most of these units when they are microed. Sams are borderline useless.

[@AsianPersuation24x7]

NANI???

[@varunkaushik2732]

Samurai with death note

[@nikolairagnarov9979]

3:10 Blades vs Stormcloaks xD

[@7Svmurai]

You see those warriors from Hammerfell? They’ve got curved swords. Curved. Swords.

[@Ace_antony]

Stormcloacks better... blades trash

[@pope00]

Samurai vs Jaguar is more epic battle than teutonic knight. Unique unit bonus vs infantry unit bonus

[@gilb_4]

Aztec vs Japanese as usual :P

[@arendel496]

@@Ishizaky1 nah there not ...not at all

[@bsn_cs]

Against infantry 10/10 Against range 4/10 Against cav 6/10 Against other unique units 11/10

[@Marc-se4kf]

Range IF you dont micro the units

[@bsn_cs]

@@Marc-se4kf damn you're right

[@Marc-se4kf]

Samurai against range 3/10 because have 1 pierce armor base

[@bsn_cs]

@@Marc-se4kf if I had to compare them to a champion, I would give the campion 3 and samurai 4 against range. They the same pierce amour 1+4 but the samurai has 10 more health and is a little faster

[@Marc-se4kf]

@@bsn_cs Champion 2/10, and pikerman and vill 1/10

[@mohammadparvez2284]

The Last samurai climax scene 8:19 😁😁😁

[@SirarSalih]

This needs more upvotes lmao

[@milescrowe2162]

It's quite funny watching how those range units just standing there.

[@JWonn]

In a real match the mangudai would have slaughtered the samurai

[@SanPot123]

Elephant archers are winning at least against some unit.

[@fardinhasan1543]

Very useless unit elephant archers

[@RFFFV03]

Samurai: I fear no Man...but THAT thing...*CATAPHRACT* scares me..

[@scintillam_dei]

The samurais learend to fear Spaniards at Cagayán. The Metatron did a video denying that samurais lost to Spaniards but I did a video proving him wrong.

[@AlanDias17]

@@scintillam_dei where's the video send link

[@scintillam_dei]

@@AlanDias17 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWW1YZ6voJ6WbdE&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI

[@pavise6333]

Cataphract...negating bonus damage since 1999

[@abrahamdasilva5613]

​@@scintillam_deithose people weren't samurai, they were pirates no training and no usefull weapons.

[@alexanfung]

when the samurai attacks the long bow archer, the archers can't even survive long enough to let us see their health bar

[@FernandoHernandez-jw4yy]

Wouldn't it make more sense to send 15 samurai against the number of units that cost roughly the same amount of ressources? Many cavalry units are very strong individually, but they're also very expensive.

[@PicassoGNR]

You must make a video about cost benefit. Units prices x units amount. For example, War Elephants cost something around of 3x more than Samurais. So, must be 3x less elephants against Samurais

[@gosphor2826]

My suggestion :) Thank you. Samurai only lost to Cataphract, Mangudai, War elephant, Mameluke, War wagon, Elephant archer, Ballista elephant and Leitis. Even then they were still cost effective most of the time of course. To my surprise they beat Boyar and Slinger but lost to Leitis.

[@Bzhydack]

Im not sure about Cata, he has massive bonus against infantry. Yeah, Boyar surprised me too.

[@gordiangopal2628]

They won against teutonic knights!

[@kedarjoshi8661]

Didnt lose to teutonic knights

[@ELREOSEMENTAL25]

@@kedarjoshi8661 in the video for teutonics in this chanel, the result is victory for teutonics, soooo idk

[@kedarjoshi8661]

@@ELREOSEMENTAL25 in this video atleast they lose😅😅

[@IamRayson]

Predicting Cataphacts, Elephants and mangadi come out on top.

[@Hamanuna]

One reason of why I like Samurais is how versatile they can be, even though the halberdier and elite skirmisher can do better in other things. And one advice, try to use more Karambit Warriors, because they only take 0.5 population

[@Bzhydack]

Here probably it dosnt matter, as well as in case of Cataphract ;-)

[@theovermansailor5519]

karambits are shit

[@FuelDropforthewin]

@@theovermansailor5519 with enough of them? Actually pretty good. Fast, cheap swarm unit

[@theovermansailor5519]

@@FuelDropforthewin that goes down to castles & towers in seconds

[@FuelDropforthewin]

Not every unit must excel in every situation. Karambits are a swarm unit suited to taking out infantry and archers with a 2-to-1 or higher superiority of numbers.

[@SantiagoHatchet]

10:16 That last konnik whose mount died: hey wait wait I'm still standing! How did we lose anyways?

[@zxb995511]

Cataphracts were like, "Unique Unit Bonus Damage? What Bonus Damage?"

[@gilb_4]

They have anti-infantry negation, but not anti unique (cataphracts get bonus damage), the caveat is that samurai is still infantry

[@purposeinpresence4494]

Samuri have +10 bonus and unique units and cataphracts have +10 against infantry. So they cancel out and cataphracts with higher Malay and HP get the win.

[@hirakchatterjee5240]

@@purposeinpresence4494 plus trample damage

[@LifeSkillsYT101]

Your language teacher: Define Defeated You: Samurai vs catapractes

[@itispyd]

Most of the archer units will fare well with very little micro.

[@frostbite585]

2:51 feels like the Last Samurai when they first fight the Imperial army at the end

[@HaThanh-bu8wz]

samurai in this game is in medieval time, while samurai in the Tom cruise movie is in early modern period (Age of industrial Revolutions)

[@barrickfischer]

Teutonic Knight: I'm the toughest infantry UU that can tear down structures and cull the infantry or siege units. Japanese Samurai: Hold my sake

[@Seki1987]

In the Teutonic Knight video, Samurais lost. Where is your God now?

[@barrickfischer]

@@Seki1987 what's a god to a *non-believer* ? 🤣

[@Seki1987]

@@barrickfischer Big Bang?

[@carlosmarin3769]

Can someone explain to me why if the knight of the Teutonic order has more attack and more armor, why did he lose against the samurai?

[@mehmetataguney7200]

Because the Samurai unit has an attack bonus against other unique units

[@carlosmarin3769]

@@mehmetataguney7200 ohh ok, tanks so much budy, Greetings from Veracruz, Mexico🇲🇽

[@Hennu_TRM]

You cut it off before that last Konnik had a chance to rise again... rigged.

[@truegamer2819]

Them: Samurai's are too strong Commander: just throw the elephants on them

[@gutnaffs.3143]

Sometimes what makes or breaks these units is not how good a killer or tank they are but how cost effective they are. Something that isn't shown in this video, highlighted by the samurai fighting the elephants both having equal population.

[@AJKecsk]

Did not expect the chonkers and memelubes to demolish the samurai so decisively!

[@paterson90]

Think this is the match we all wanted 2:22

[@martinezbaezomar168]

Spirit of the Law likes this : D and me too

[@kimvitug2682]

if it wasn't for their decent APR, and atk bonus against unique units, they will lose against the Teutonic Knights

[@dbuyandelger]

Man that ghost of Tsushima scene was unexpected

[@accellword4820]

1212: BANZAIIII 2020: SENPAIIII

[@ucphan1499]

and HENTAIIII

[@kevinkibble8342]

Look at the way they just slaughter cavalry. By far the best infantry unit in the entire game.

[@jordinagel1184]

That’s smg I’ve actually been wondering: do units such as the Imperial camel and Imperial skirmisher count as unique units in regard to the samurai’s bonus attack? Both are specific to one faction, but they’re also upgrades of already existing non-unique units

[@samraa1878]

Unique unit is not just that what is in castle Is also that anything that civ has Like silnger Eaglse dont count

[@gamersouls5021]

GamerSouls on KZbin

[@Gangster91able]

2:50 alternative final battle scene of "the last samurai" with Tom Cruise.

[@Gangster91able]

@STORM LORD ahaha no the cannonier remember me the japan army and english army of last samurai.

[@caroswolf286]

Man, Those Janissaries are though

[@IranDarunia]

Shiryu de Dragão S2, tu é brazuka memo kkkkkkk. Mano, to maratonando teu canal vei, já basta meu vício no jogo kkkkk

[@migovas1483]

1:58 elephants , savage! Not even one fell...

[@devanshsharma4250]

So they can win against any infantry , archers and some cavalry too.. Amazed ♥️

[@raphaelantoine7331]

Is it a surprise archers lose when forced to melee? 😜

[@sanguineaurora8765]

This shows how OP some units are. Winning melee fight against samurai.

[@thems151]

The flaw is that the ranged units should never engage like that. If I controlled the longbows they’d hit and run and kill each samurai and lose maybe 1 at most

[@bluenicholasbf2142]

Yes of course, but as he has to test about 50 units against each other, with well over 2000 battles in total, having to micro each individual archer is going to take a lot more time and effort than just 'a-moving'

[@RAMMY237]

Obviously, when you have firing units, especially firing rider units, you want to use micro control instead of making them fight face to face with infantry. That way, they will have no chances against Manguadais , in case of equal number of units, of course.

[@Baxxter101]

lol the ballista elephants was hilarious.

[@deego237]

Esse é o comentário em português que você estava procurando Shiryu de Dragão.

[@gabrielandradeferraz386]

malégna

[@The_Ancient_Guardian]

Não

[@jprsfragoso]

So basically, if it walks on 4 legs, it kills samurai....

[@jeffery_tang]

2:48 and 8:20 the last samurai movie

[@Sinvixus]

How did Elite Samurai win against Elite Teutonic knight? this video shows the opposite: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2WqmHaeo6iXm68

[@KiwiImpactSaint]

Who thought it’s a good idea to fight equal number of elephants?

[@anhkietchau9793]

2:49 How The Last Samurai should have ended up

[@vg9407]

8:30 it should be The Last Samurai ending

[@S0oo]

*I FEAR NO MAN* ...but those elephants, they scare the shit out of me.

[@andyelgrand0]

cataphracs "you scratched my armour..."

[@anti-h2894]

1:52 the samurai: XD

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

The elite leitis was the real shock in the pack. Must be the armour bypass at work.

[@yorib.4014]

Leitis is actually so strong. I think it is really underrated.

[@unukbigwall2279]

Condottiero in this fight: Man Im dead

[@JuanPabloPrimal]

3:20 impresionante

[@Casaganaha]

Conclusion: no monks, no way to defeat a tank like the elephants.

[@damsen978]

The Spanish conquerors will always be the best unique, because they can hit and run all the time, against any unit due to using powder guns.

[@markblackburn2343]

Except against Mamelukes ranged anti-cavalry units.

[@damsen978]

@@markblackburn2343 They can't reach Conquerors that has longer range. Mamelukes need to get closer.

[@eltony4318]

Accurate!

[@lukewhatidid1735]

Britons longbow men

[@damsen978]

@@lukewhatidid1735 They're slow and have lower health.

[@dsxz]

lmao i love how they can just face tank artillery

[@maxs713]

What if you did each side with the approximate same amount of resources spent instead of the same number of unit - then some of the one sided fights would be more fair? (e.g. Elephants)

[@AlanaAylin19]

I'm surprised the Konnik didn't stand a chance. Samurai are overpowered

[@burtreynolds4577]

Thank yoy very much good video and have a nice day bro!!! grettings from Mexico :)

[@catbuikhang6482]

The Samurais lost because they didn't have Haoumaru on their side

[@mohammadgagat7589]

Elephants: "oops, I think I stepped something!!"

[@Hennu_TRM]

Did you really just put an equal number of Karambits against Samurai?

[@ThiagoAlmeida007]

Os elefantes persas são muito fortes. Quase invencíveis

[@someguy2744]

Mangudai could hit and run which would give the Mongols a significant advantage.

[@joseantoniogaticabahamonde8417]

1:51 me playing campaign in standard difficulty vs ranked game

[@artticusbarca5445]

I was like, "There's no way they will beat the Teutonic Knights.....oh....shit!...."

[@squatlebherz4434]

Samurai vs Infantry Unique unit: "Even now I could cut through the 5 of you like carving a cake!" well 15, but still works

[@spokolokofly]

Selmy:D

[@FedeMart]

Samurais vs Teutonic Knights is the most epic fight possible

[@aelspecto]

When the weaboo kid and the religious kid start to insult each other in class!

[@WorthToBuyy]

Jaguar warrior

[@unoyunotres]

Conclusión, los samurais son a prueba de balas

[@usmangull5762]

No Elephants Were Harmed In Making of This Video...

[@mrklausjonza]

This is pretty good because spirit of the law won't say it haha

[@Reiss044]

Kokushibo samurai: i fear no man, but that thing (Yorrichi skills) its scares me Yorrichi: its about breathing

[@TP-mb9rn]

Historically inaccurate. Samurais never had a chance against western swordmen.

[@veerswami7175]

@Joe Kerr well I don't think so the movement and agility is next level u like or not and another thing it's a island nation mobility is every thing and not too much rss but fighting skill compare to other is quite fine except some island nation are pretty damn hoo like British India indoensia in naval and land fighr also

[@unanimousgamer703]

Interesting, in another comparison video, the Samurai got decimated by the atomic camels but mostly survived here?

[@mohammadqayyum63]

9:03 was a one side massacre

[@kgamer121]

Samurai are the best overall unit in the game. Not only do they trade cost-efficiently with all other unique units, but they also trade cost-efficiently with archers, skirmishers, and pikemen. They're basically Champions with 25% faster attack speed. They essentially have no weakness because they don't have a hard counter. (All the unique units that can counter them, they can counter too)

[@lostscare9635]

Bullshit.

[@Argooh]

So what I learned about history: The Samurai, dedicated, trained warriors, are no match for an Elephant in a fight to the death.

[@A7XRaydog247]

Damn I really thought they were gonna beat the war elephants

[@freevbucks8019]

Damn they must be dollar store samurai because their role is long range

[@zeroeien]

Nothing like watching samurai getting steamrolled by elephants

[@Lozaki118]

just for giggles but range units are going to micro your behind and keep on shoot/walk.

[@aayushmankatiyar5862]

Samurais are mostly good against non ranged UU, they suck against ranged units

[@balguss]

How come half the Konnik didn't dismount after being killed?

[@ahbraveconscript997]

i wanted to see them against turtle ships and longboats

[@Sputnik5790]

Spitrit of the law would love this.

[@Melki]

Thanks for the video! But where is the mighty ololo!?