You Don't Need Samir.

Hey there,

I'm a pretty experienced gatcha gamer + mmo player at this point with a ton of hours in the genre. For those who may just be stepping foot into Gatchas or MMO's I'd like to make it clear, you don't need Samir.

Samir is a great unit for right now and can function for little investment that is true, she will do a lot in the early-mid and if you like her combat + aesthetic feel free to ignore everything from here onward.

Samir is a great unit for right now, I know a lot of people will be pushing for characters and may feel like they need a main DPS due to them having a Shield Break or Utility already or just seeing many youtubers praising Samir as the best gatcha character ever.

While Samir is great, I see higher investment characters such as Crow, Tsubasa, and Shiro seeing more play in the near future and that is how it progressed very quickly on the CN servers. Right now on the CN servers out of the current SSR's we have in the game it seems that Nemesis and Tsubasa are the two who see the most play, followed by Meryl and KING for Shield breaking and then Samir, Crow, Shiro etc.

In PvP, Samir is also not breaking the game and is outclassed by characters like Meryl, Huma and Cocoritter by a mile. While Samir is present in a lot of the meta she is not the end all be all of characters. Personally, I didn't find Samir to be very interesting and while I see her strength I have been having a lot more fun on characters like Meryl and Crow and find myself using characters more because I like their kit rather than youtubers and streamers power rankings in the game.

If you still have your SSR box and are thinking about getting Samir and you like her of course go for it. If you are thinking about picking Samir because you don't have her and feel like you need her to be competitive, then try taking a deeper look into what characters you will be using in 6-12 months and if carrying the early game is enough to justify the pick in the later game.