In SW4, Magoichi and Masamune are easy S tier. It's INSANE how much buff they got, firing infinite bullets their way through countless enemies was incredibly satisfying 😂
Pretty much the entire cast got buffed due to hyper attacks. The problem i had with most characters prior was the lack of crowd control and not so much 1v1
Even though they cut Masamune Date"s moves, like the extra bullets at the end of his second and the extra slashes for the 3rd combo string which I thought was stupid
Pretty cool tier list. I've never played base Samurai Warriors 2, but I did play a ton of Xtreme Legends as a kid and recently revisited it. I agree with all your D and E tier picks, plus most of your C Tier (I'd just personally put Oichi and Masamune Date up to B Tier). Yoshimoto belongs in F Tier imo but I remember I actually quite liked Okuni so personally I'd bump her up to like C Tier or so. Personally my S Tier is probably Hanzo Hattori, Kotaro Fuma, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nobunaga Oda, and maybe Mitsuhide Akechi. I also recall really loving how Nene plays but not enough for S Tier, I mostly just found it really fun to mess around with her ability to transform into enemies and challenge myself to beat levels as a random goon.
I really like your commentary videos. Keep it up man!! Gracia is my favourite just because I like characters that fight with their fist (that's why I love Monk-type characters in other actions games) and Gracia has useful spells too. Sadly, she really does have the worst unintentional moveset (Because Yoshimoto is a joke character). I didn't remember Okuni beeing so bad, maybe I should try her again next time I play.
Thanks for the encouragement! I definitely see where you’re coming from, I think maybe Gracia is just a character that I don’t fully understand how to use properly?
@@KoeiKollectionher WO3U moveset is still her best version. They gave her a shield barrier that heals her and some other special air attack that I can't remember right now.
Excellent video! Hope you'll keep doing tier lists - Dynasty Warriors & Warriors Orochi as well, and not just character ranking but other elements such as ranking games in the franchise, etc. Personally, I'd put the entire C tier (except Oichi) in S/A tier alongside Ginchiyo, Kenshin and Kanetsugu, and swap out Toshiie, Tadakatsu and Nagamasa, as I'm not the biggest fan of their movesets (I need a bit of magic in there) :D
I’m new to this channel, and this might sound corny… You literally sound like the perfect voice actor for a main character in an anime or Japanese made video game!
Great tier list. All my favourite characters are in S. I'd put Gracia and Motochika up a tier, though gimmicky, can be powerful in the right hands. I'd lower Hideyoshi by a tier too due to weak damage output.
Great video. A few things I disagree with here and there, but overall this tier list is well put together. I love the few personal stories you shared, it's heartwarming to come across people who grew up loving the samurai warriors games like I did. I checked out some of your other content and definitely had to subscribe. Keep up the good work :)
Well explained & nice video bro, but i think the title should be ranking my favorite sw2 character movesets because you mainly rank them based on that.
When i played samurai Warriors 1 and 2, back then, i felt like both Tadakatsu and Meiji had the Lu Bu felling. Meiji cuz of his kinda fast aoe attacks and Tadakatsu cuz of his heavy hitting abillities plus his battlefield presence. Loved both characters
Gracia is really good with ice. She is meant for musou spamming and c1 Ice is good on any character with a stationary musou that can cause enemies to be pushed away. Nagamasa, gracia, motochika, toshiie, etc
So This game was just my old go to, and I'll confess to this, Yoshimoto Imagawa is god awful as a character... But, His playstyle was really fun for me, I don't really understand how I reached that conclusion, totally agree he's F Tier tho.
Tip to play Yoshimoto in SW2XL, when you use his ultimate Musou(yellow aura Musou) , wait until your Musou about to end, press his special attack (play death) and stay still on ground watching your enemy got wacked by his Musou
I found Yoshimoto to actually be a decent character when you fully fill his musou bar. You can use the play dead skill to prolong the effect of the level 3 musou bar and believe me: it deals HEAVY damage when properly used. I think he is on F tier because he’s seen as a joke, but I’m taking about him from a moveset practical point of view. He ain’t bad but he’s nit great either, he’s slightly below avg imo
My S tiers is easily Hanzo, Nobunaga. Hanzo is just so good, especially in XL. His specials are spammable, usually resulting in the enemy releasing their guard prematurely. His clones can be operated to some degree of individuality (compared to the other ninja) which offer great coverage. It usually allows me to send them in to fight a hyper armored boss and fight them from a distance or mix up their defense capabilities. In mercenary mode, Tier 4 abilities he is even more lightning fast....zipping so much that I can chain his normal strings multiple times after launching the opponent from the final hit. I'm just upset he doesn't keep his full moveset from SW1. Also his shrunken spin does hefty damage against a wall. Plus coolest lines ever and Ninja path. The 1st person I got all 8 unique swords in the mercenary mode. Perfect cutscenes too. For Nobunaga...just great lines. Great battle cutscenes. His lightsaber sounding sword makes me feel powerful. His specials are great. I just love stabbing through the enemy so much just to get his tier 3 sword charge...so much so I always yell "No guarding" whenever I initiate it. I love they gave him his SW1 full movement under the charge. Unfortunately his musou sucks. I one point I thought I mastered it (being able to lock onto a single enemy) by holding the guard button during it, but maybe that was just a fluke. Was only able to do it 1x I personally am putting Keiji lower. As much as I liked him in SW1, his English voice screeches my ears. I will also say Hideyoshi and Kotaro has always been the most annoying to fight in my experience. Best Musou imo are Nagamasa, Toshiie, Keiji, Kanetsugu, Musashi, and Masamune
Amazing list. SW2 is one of my favorite Warriors games. My mains are Nobunaga, Kotaro, Hanzo, Mitsuhide, and the Maedas. I probably put Nobunaga in S but I agree that his Musou is good for taking down a lot of enemies but not good for taking down officers.
Yoshimoto is an mid-tier corresponding to C~B grades depending on how use it, and the LV3 Musou is very useful. It's a hard character because you can use "Lying Down" to extend Musou usage time. 🤭
For me, Gracia is very good, maybe not many people know that Gracia is the character with the highest damage when he mouted horse, hes basic attack do so much damage when mount horse
I was going to say the same thing honestly I only like using her on the horses. But also the fire damage also adds up over time too if you can keep them bouncing. Other than that she's meh.
I really liked this tier list, but then he said that Kojiro and Musashi are in the S tier... and this straight up put this list itself into the S tier! Musashi has always been my favorite character, especially in this game! Good choice, hats off, man!
For me, Tadakatsu, Musashi and Toshiie is The only S tier for me. Because those 3 are the most favourite in my opinion The rest of it, i agree with you cause me to already has played all this character.
I never played SW 1 or 3 and just played 4 II for the first time since I'm always an Xbox person. My BF just got me SW1 and am playing it for the first time. Man Noh got done dirty going in to 2. She's so much better in 1. I'm glad Gracia got better in 4 cause she's kind of yikes in 2 lol. Maybe controversial pick, while agreeing with the other Fs my other F would be Mitsunari. He is my least favorite playstyle yet gets the favoritism treatment getting a god form in WO4 and in Warriors All Stars.
I discovered this Musashi in SW4. It's a shame how Koei poorly treats my boy, he has more character development in Warriors Orochi than in his original franchise.
If SW2 ever has S tire characters, they gotta be tatakatsu, keiji and musashi, these are the three who can recover a lot of their musou gauge without having to fight enemies. Garcia can do it too but her base stats are too low, not fun. Then yukimura is solid A+ character, he has no weaknesses, has a perfect move set, and has the ability to summon his horse! If kunoichi was in SW2 based on her move set in SW1 she is easily A+ too, much stronger and faster than nene.
Akshually :nerd_face: Imagawa is a total S tier. Get a good damage on his weapon and try walling an enemy, with full Charge 3 (or charge 4, depending how you say it, basically that one part where he spins then kick the ball), and with perfect positioning walling your opponent, you can make the ball hit more than once and hits more, hence dealing more damage. :nerd_face: (no but seriously, the damage actually handled Tadakatsu Honda easily whenever I play him with such strat)
I'm so glad you placed musashi in S tier, like my boy is not getting the love it deserves in the following SW games, how can you not? when almost all his move set breaks guards, like he's got 4 of it, bundle that with brutal Musuo attack if you get caught by that its death. plus 2 very good special skiils counter and musuo regen and man, him using reversal as core skill is why he's the greatest swordsman in all the lands. in my almost 20 years of playing Sw2 I never lost a battle playing as musashi. not even once!
I was with ya until Masamune got put in C Tier, He is an easy B/A tier, Fun to play, Great design, Amazing personality. But i can forgive it, As long as we all agree he is an EASY s tier in Samurai Warriors 4.
I will only disagree in the case of Masamune and Katsuie. Masamune musou in lv 2 when you do that in front of a enemy (even Tadakatsu on high difficulty) you can delete anything, at least we talk about survival... Then Katsuie and his special "bomb-effect" make every (even grabs) a explosion attack, can do a lot of damage and multi-hits all over the place. Some other characters have a great Musou, but pretty much that is (is not like every one spam the infinite 6th strong attack of Oichi thanks of his jump ability)
If they change everything and make the game open world online like rdr2 and combat like for honor it would definitely be game of the year and make it pvp pve game
Toshie maeda , I've never played this character, still... Tadakatsu and mushashi are my favourite characters... They are easy to control even in keyboards
Takakatsu and Musashi are musou spamming characters. Since musou is safe and strong, so are these 2 characters 🤣 These 2 guys can fight 100 hyper generals at the same time! Just R1 to fill musou gauge and O to obliterate everything.
Without watching the vid S tier for sw 2/exl my fave Musashi miyamoto Keiji maeda Tadakatsu Honda Kotaro Fuma Sakon shima Oh Shii I forgot Kojiro Sasaki & toshii maeda As a kid I had a crush on Ranmaru Mori before I knew also I forgot about Nagamasa Azai S tier
Hanzo S , Masamune C , Sakon C , Kotaro A , magoichi B , and hideyoshi B ????? ; I agree with all video except those , you have to replay with them again dude .
Bro doesnt know how to use Okuni fr cuz shes one of my best characters when playing SW2 just like MItsuhide and Ranmaru; FYI whenever I do play SW2 I always pick Ina cuz she does more damage with her arrows than Masamune and Magoichi does with their bullets
I forgave you for fucking up Ieyasu's name and mostly everyone's name, I forgave you for putting mitsunari in slot C but I cannot forgive you putting DATE MASAMUNE in slot C😒 what bad taste😑
In SW4, Magoichi and Masamune are easy S tier. It's INSANE how much buff they got, firing infinite bullets their way through countless enemies was incredibly satisfying 😂
Pretty much the entire cast got buffed due to hyper attacks. The problem i had with most characters prior was the lack of crowd control and not so much 1v1
Even though they cut Masamune Date"s moves, like the extra bullets at the end of his second and the extra slashes for the 3rd combo string which I thought was stupid
My absolute favorite samurai warriors and it isn’t even close. Keep up this content man !!
Solid list. I feel like Nobunaga's moveset is handled better in Orochi 1 and 2. Also imo his VA and outfit the best in this game.
Doing my boy Sakon dirty 😂, he is high A, low S for me. Otherwise really nice list, keep up the work mate, more Warriors content is always welcome.
thank you this was a blast from the past:)
Pretty cool tier list. I've never played base Samurai Warriors 2, but I did play a ton of Xtreme Legends as a kid and recently revisited it. I agree with all your D and E tier picks, plus most of your C Tier (I'd just personally put Oichi and Masamune Date up to B Tier). Yoshimoto belongs in F Tier imo but I remember I actually quite liked Okuni so personally I'd bump her up to like C Tier or so.
Personally my S Tier is probably Hanzo Hattori, Kotaro Fuma, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nobunaga Oda, and maybe Mitsuhide Akechi. I also recall really loving how Nene plays but not enough for S Tier, I mostly just found it really fun to mess around with her ability to transform into enemies and challenge myself to beat levels as a random goon.
I really like your commentary videos. Keep it up man!!
Gracia is my favourite just because I like characters that fight with their fist (that's why I love Monk-type characters in other actions games) and Gracia has useful spells too. Sadly, she really does have the worst unintentional moveset (Because Yoshimoto is a joke character). I didn't remember Okuni beeing so bad, maybe I should try her again next time I play.
Thanks for the encouragement! I definitely see where you’re coming from, I think maybe Gracia is just a character that I don’t fully understand how to use properly?
@@KoeiKollectionher WO3U moveset is still her best version. They gave her a shield barrier that heals her and some other special air attack that I can't remember right now.
Excellent video! Hope you'll keep doing tier lists - Dynasty Warriors & Warriors Orochi as well, and not just character ranking but other elements such as ranking games in the franchise, etc.
Personally, I'd put the entire C tier (except Oichi) in S/A tier alongside Ginchiyo, Kenshin and Kanetsugu, and swap out Toshiie, Tadakatsu and Nagamasa, as I'm not the biggest fan of their movesets (I need a bit of magic in there) :D
I LOVE THIS! Keep making tier list videos!! 🤠
Thank you! Will definitely try to fit in time to make more
I’m new to this channel, and this might sound corny… You literally sound like the perfect voice actor for a main character in an anime or Japanese made video game!
Damn, thanks Robert! That’s really nice
Gracia was indeed quite unenjoyable to play on her debut game, but she got quite a buff in later installments.
Bro, you’re voice and tone remind me of anime inner monologues. You should do voice acting if you don’t already.
Great tier list. All my favourite characters are in S. I'd put Gracia and Motochika up a tier, though gimmicky, can be powerful in the right hands. I'd lower Hideyoshi by a tier too due to weak damage output.
Great video. A few things I disagree with here and there, but overall this tier list is well put together. I love the few personal stories you shared, it's heartwarming to come across people who grew up loving the samurai warriors games like I did. I checked out some of your other content and definitely had to subscribe. Keep up the good work :)
Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback!
Well explained & nice video bro, but i think the title should be ranking my favorite sw2 character movesets because you mainly rank them based on that.
When i played samurai Warriors 1 and 2, back then, i felt like both Tadakatsu and Meiji had the Lu Bu felling. Meiji cuz of his kinda fast aoe attacks and Tadakatsu cuz of his heavy hitting abillities plus his battlefield presence. Loved both characters
Gracia is really good with ice. She is meant for musou spamming and c1
Ice is good on any character with a stationary musou that can cause enemies to be pushed away.
Nagamasa, gracia, motochika, toshiie, etc
Hey, I love this. Keep making more warriors content bro!
Also, Okuni's musou did suck but got fixed in later warriors game.
Thanks! Definitely got more tier lists on the way in the not to distant future
Nobunaga design in this is one of my faves, he looks badass only beaten by his older self design in sw5
So This game was just my old go to, and I'll confess to this, Yoshimoto Imagawa is god awful as a character... But, His playstyle was really fun for me, I don't really understand how I reached that conclusion, totally agree he's F Tier tho.
Tip to play Yoshimoto in SW2XL, when you use his ultimate Musou(yellow aura Musou) , wait until your Musou about to end, press his special attack (play death) and stay still on ground watching your enemy got wacked by his Musou
I found Yoshimoto to actually be a decent character when you fully fill his musou bar. You can use the play dead skill to prolong the effect of the level 3 musou bar and believe me: it deals HEAVY damage when properly used. I think he is on F tier because he’s seen as a joke, but I’m taking about him from a moveset practical point of view. He ain’t bad but he’s nit great either, he’s slightly below avg imo
I would love to see your thoughts on Samurai Warriors 2 Empire gameplay. Since you more prefer more realistic weapons and characters.
My S tiers is easily Hanzo, Nobunaga. Hanzo is just so good, especially in XL. His specials are spammable, usually resulting in the enemy releasing their guard prematurely. His clones can be operated to some degree of individuality (compared to the other ninja) which offer great coverage. It usually allows me to send them in to fight a hyper armored boss and fight them from a distance or mix up their defense capabilities. In mercenary mode, Tier 4 abilities he is even more lightning fast....zipping so much that I can chain his normal strings multiple times after launching the opponent from the final hit. I'm just upset he doesn't keep his full moveset from SW1. Also his shrunken spin does hefty damage against a wall. Plus coolest lines ever and Ninja path. The 1st person I got all 8 unique swords in the mercenary mode. Perfect cutscenes too.
For Nobunaga...just great lines. Great battle cutscenes. His lightsaber sounding sword makes me feel powerful. His specials are great. I just love stabbing through the enemy so much just to get his tier 3 sword charge...so much so I always yell "No guarding" whenever I initiate it. I love they gave him his SW1 full movement under the charge. Unfortunately his musou sucks. I one point I thought I mastered it (being able to lock onto a single enemy) by holding the guard button during it, but maybe that was just a fluke. Was only able to do it 1x
I personally am putting Keiji lower. As much as I liked him in SW1, his English voice screeches my ears. I will also say Hideyoshi and Kotaro has always been the most annoying to fight in my experience. Best Musou imo are Nagamasa, Toshiie, Keiji, Kanetsugu, Musashi, and Masamune
Amazing list. SW2 is one of my favorite Warriors games. My mains are Nobunaga, Kotaro, Hanzo, Mitsuhide, and the Maedas. I probably put Nobunaga in S but I agree that his Musou is good for taking down a lot of enemies but not good for taking down officers.
Literally one of my fav games. I was just reminiscing about SW2 lol
Don't mind what i say,im just not used to people playing this life changing game for me, it was nice hearing your views ❤🎉🎉
Tier S : Kotaro Fuma, Nobunaga oda, hanzo hatori, Kanetsugu
Yoshimoto is an mid-tier corresponding to C~B grades depending on how use it, and the LV3 Musou is very useful. It's a hard character because you can use "Lying Down" to extend Musou usage time. 🤭
For me, Gracia is very good, maybe not many people know that Gracia is the character with the highest damage when he mouted horse, hes basic attack do so much damage when mount horse
Yeah great point actually, definitely should have considered that with the tier list haha. Thanks!
I was going to say the same thing honestly I only like using her on the horses. But also the fire damage also adds up over time too if you can keep them bouncing. Other than that she's meh.
I loved that you put Kojiro on the S tier, my favourite character in the game🤙🤙
I really liked this tier list, but then he said that Kojiro and Musashi are in the S tier... and this straight up put this list itself into the S tier! Musashi has always been my favorite character, especially in this game! Good choice, hats off, man!
Thanks man! I was worried my first tier list was going to get torn to shreds hahaha
For me, Tadakatsu, Musashi and Toshiie is The only S tier for me. Because those 3 are the most favourite in my opinion The rest of it, i agree with you cause me to already has played all this character.
I like Okuni, one of my favorites (along with Ina andOichi) in Orochi Warriors.
And No is my favorite of all times.
I never played SW 1 or 3 and just played 4 II for the first time since I'm always an Xbox person. My BF just got me SW1 and am playing it for the first time. Man Noh got done dirty going in to 2. She's so much better in 1. I'm glad Gracia got better in 4 cause she's kind of yikes in 2 lol. Maybe controversial pick, while agreeing with the other Fs my other F would be Mitsunari. He is my least favorite playstyle yet gets the favoritism treatment getting a god form in WO4 and in Warriors All Stars.
I discovered this Musashi in SW4. It's a shame how Koei poorly treats my boy, he has more character development in Warriors Orochi than in his original franchise.
I wrote an essay on nobunaga in 6th grade! How relatable
If SW2 ever has S tire characters, they gotta be tatakatsu, keiji and musashi, these are the three who can recover a lot of their musou gauge without having to fight enemies. Garcia can do it too but her base stats are too low, not fun. Then yukimura is solid A+ character, he has no weaknesses, has a perfect move set, and has the ability to summon his horse! If kunoichi was in SW2 based on her move set in SW1 she is easily A+ too, much stronger and faster than nene.
@Koei Kollection Maeda Keiji's alignment is probably Chaos Neutral.
Toshi story was the most short story mode in speedrun to clear.
Akshually :nerd_face: Imagawa is a total S tier. Get a good damage on his weapon and try walling an enemy, with full Charge 3 (or charge 4, depending how you say it, basically that one part where he spins then kick the ball), and with perfect positioning walling your opponent, you can make the ball hit more than once and hits more, hence dealing more damage. :nerd_face: (no but seriously, the damage actually handled Tadakatsu Honda easily whenever I play him with such strat)
would you mind making a tier list of dynasty warriors online weapons?
The music sounds like a remix of children by Robert miles
I'm so glad you placed musashi in S tier, like my boy is not getting the love it deserves in the following SW games, how can you not? when almost all his move set breaks guards, like he's got 4 of it, bundle that with brutal Musuo attack if you get caught by that its death. plus 2 very good special skiils counter and musuo regen and man, him using reversal as core skill is why he's the greatest swordsman in all the lands. in my almost 20 years of playing Sw2 I never lost a battle playing as musashi. not even once!
I was with ya until Masamune got put in C Tier, He is an easy B/A tier, Fun to play, Great design, Amazing personality. But i can forgive it, As long as we all agree he is an EASY s tier in Samurai Warriors 4.
I will only disagree in the case of Masamune and Katsuie. Masamune musou in lv 2 when you do that in front of a enemy (even Tadakatsu on high difficulty) you can delete anything, at least we talk about survival...
Then Katsuie and his special "bomb-effect" make every (even grabs) a explosion attack, can do a lot of damage and multi-hits all over the place.
Some other characters have a great Musou, but pretty much that is (is not like every one spam the infinite 6th strong attack of Oichi thanks of his jump ability)
Samurai Warriors 2 Empires, Dynasty Warriors 4 and 3 are the GOATs.
If they change everything and make the game open world online like rdr2 and combat like for honor it would definitely be game of the year and make it pvp pve game
Toshie maeda , I've never played this character, still... Tadakatsu and mushashi are my favourite characters... They are easy to control even in keyboards
Takakatsu and Musashi are musou spamming characters. Since musou is safe and strong, so are these 2 characters 🤣
These 2 guys can fight 100 hyper generals at the same time! Just R1 to fill musou gauge and O to obliterate everything.
Yukamura is easily tier S if you know how to pull out his indefinite combo. My record is 103 hits in a row on kg
You should play tenchu 3, 4, and Z
Without watching the vid
S tier for sw 2/exl my fave
Musashi miyamoto
Keiji maeda
Tadakatsu Honda
Kotaro Fuma
Sakon shima
Oh Shii I forgot Kojiro Sasaki & toshii maeda
As a kid I had a crush on Ranmaru Mori before I knew also I forgot about Nagamasa Azai S tier
Was SW2 tier list is the same for SW4? I plan to grind them to max level today ☝️
Slightly different but the characters in SW4 that were in SW2 mostly have the same Movesets, swapping out the special moves for the hyper attacks etc
never let bro cook again
Regardless of different opinions. We can all agree that imagawa will always be at the bottom or near bottom of every lists.
Hahahaha poor Yoshimoto
for me Hideyoshi is S-tier
with Keyji and Kanetsugu
gracia special moves are op bro, u only need hit hyper tadakatsu 3 or 4 times and hes dead
motochika in D tier is a crime
Hanzo S , Masamune C , Sakon C , Kotaro A , magoichi B , and hideyoshi B ????? ; I agree with all video except those , you have to replay with them again dude .
Kojiro Sasaki too stronk
musashi the best officer killer 😎
6:26 Who is Sakon?
Kotaro 🐐
for me, Gracia is S tier. if you trap an enemy against a wall and use R1 + X 3x you can insta kill almost every enemy, even in the highest difficult
Ginchyo, Masamune and Kotaro S tier
Wait kunoichi isn't in sw2?
Nah she’s in pretty much every SW game except for SW2 & SW5
Bro doesnt know how to use Okuni fr cuz shes one of my best characters when playing SW2 just like MItsuhide and Ranmaru; FYI whenever I do play SW2 I always pick Ina cuz she does more damage with her arrows than Masamune and Magoichi does with their bullets
Well Said!
Yoshimoto is very worst character like Goemon Ishikawa. Keiji Maeda is S.
Kotaro solid S
w hanzo as always
i grade characters based on theirs final weapon.😂
lots of offensive stats is S rank.
meanwhile defensive stats is FF rank🤣
?? Okuni is so op
I forgave you for fucking up Ieyasu's name and mostly everyone's name,
I forgave you for putting mitsunari in slot C but I cannot forgive you putting DATE MASAMUNE in slot C😒
what bad taste😑
YEEEESSSS!!!
Honda and Oda is tier S no doubt