r/Fighters • u/DirectorBrilliant449 • 1d ago
Topic Favorite playable Samurai Shodown bosses? 🔥
Who are your faves? Mizuki and Zankuro for me honestly. Their kits are so cool and I especially love doing heavy damage with both of them. I think my number one would be Mizuki tho I love her design and everything hahaha.
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u/Nikanoru86 9h ago
Zankuro is my favorite, my main guy in 5sp just because he's some dude with a giant zanbato (that old giant japanese sword) and yes i love Musashi from LB2 too, big guys with big swords
Gaoh my 2nd favorite because... KENJI UTSUMI... freaking Raoh! Also love anything that looks like Nobunaga and the character is cool, too
Mizuki too because i love evil Mikos (her ss2 voice is the best while her 5sp voice is quite underwhelming ðŸ˜)
Amakusa (the evil one from ss4, just because i love that voice filter) may not be my favorite but he's hands down the iconic boss of the series
Ambrosia? Mainly relegated to spinoffs, can't comment
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u/Baines_v2 1d ago
It almost feels like Amakusa by default, as he's the only one who benefited from developing over multiple returns.
I want to prefer Mizuki as a design, but her playable form in SS5 felt like a downgrade despite all of the mechanical changes that had been made to the franchise as a whole since her SS2 boss appearance. Then Special removed her pet as a separate entity, instead turning it into a summoned projectile.
KOF15 is the added insult for Mizuki. KOF14 had teased her return, as she was one of the souls that had been absorbed by Verse, and multiple other previously deceased characters had returned to life in the aftermath. Then KOF15 turned it into a joke. KOF15's Team Samurai (Nakoruru, Haohmaru, Darli) ending begins with them standing in front of a defeated Mizuki, which quickly turns into them simply ignoring Mizuki as they talk about wanting to see more of the modern world. Nakoruru decides to take them on a world tour before sending them home, and decides that they'll just have to force Mizuki to join them (even saying that enjoying stuff might turn Mizuki towards good), while ignoring Mizuki's complaints that she'd rather be destroyed than go with them. Then end of the ending is Mizuki screaming "Listen to meeee!" as they walk off.
I found Zankuro kind of dull, a somewhat generic "big guy hit harder" style boss. I don't know that I played his returned playable form.
Can't say much about Gaoh, as I know I never bothered to play him. Kind of looked like a Last Blade design. I understand he lost his transformation in SS6.
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u/Ornery-Aspect-6140 1d ago edited 1d ago
mizuki and amakusa all day, zankuro was dope in 3 then he was wack in 4 and 5 6 they did nothing with him, kept his wack moveset from 4 lost all his cool moves from 3
gaoh should have been renamed wack
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u/TheXboxArtist 1d ago
Mizuki is cool as a boss, but for playable I only like Amakusa, he's one of the coolest SNK characters. Zankuro looks cool, but his moveset is whatever to me. The other one doesn't even deserve a mention.
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u/Seadragon1983 1d ago
Zankuro. No magic, no bullshit, just a big man with a big sword and hits like a gotdamn Mack Truck.
As for Gaoh... his demon form became his Weapon Breaker in SS6 after being relegated to Weapon Breaker and Overkill duties in SSV Special.