Hmm.

First was Ina, then Mitsunari and just now I'm getting Nagamasa up- he's 92 .

just got mitsuhide up to 99 along with ling tong and hanzo on his way up there hes like 80 something i forget haha

My first person maxed out was Zhao Yun because he was the only one I used because I didn't unlock Musashi until after I beat it. Now I have Sun Ce, Lu Bu, Keiji, Zhang Liao, Nobunaga, Ma Chao, Tadakatsu, and i have orochi on level 86.

Everybody is ahead of me. Most of my characters are only on leval 30. Orochi is leval 73, Keji, Tadakatsu, Lu Bu, and Musashi is in their 50's.

Zhao Yun was first for me, as always hehe
Next up was Hideyoshi, Guan Ping, Yukimura, Nobunaga, Zhou Tai and Zhang Liao
The rest are still at least 30 lvls away ATM

Okuni first then Ranmaru Mori then NeNe and so on.....................
i chose them coz they have very good bunching attacks.

yup! But Kunoichi is way better then them once you get your elements correct and knows how to control her.

My original teams (first time I did the stories) was:

Wu

Kunoichi
Zhuo Yu
Lu Meng

Shu

Goemon Ishikawa
Wei Yan
Jiang Wei

Wei

Mitsunari Ishida
Pang Tong
Yoshimoyo Imagawa

SW

Okuni
Zhang Jiao
Cao Ren

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Strangely, Zhuo Yu and Lu Meng was only in level 24 once I got to Koshi castle... Kunoichi was level 99 so she was my first maxed character. Close up came Goemon, Yoshimoto, Okuni, Nene and Mitsunari. The rest of the lot quickly followed though... the only characters that ain't in level 99 now is:

Pang De (45)
Lu Bu (28 - though, fully maxed weapon and PIR)
Orochi (78 - I refuse to control him as he sucks... my brother loves him, so he's the one in charge of Orochi)

and

Kenshin Uesugi (97 - to lazy to do the two last levels... and I need the growth points for my Kunoichi dagger collection)

I am the demi-god of Warriors Orochi... though... I tend to stick with the weak... but I make them stronger than the strongest characters... I am the Kunoichi and Yoshimoto abuser


(( believe it or not... but they are my two strongest characters... I can't belive people think they suck, cuz their shockwave range can get quite immense with
Flash
Bolt
Range
Ice
Agility
Might
Slay
Brave

but no one dares to try...
actually... the ones you like best always somewhat turns into your best character Nene is a naturaly good character, but my Kunoichi pwns her sorry butt big time )))

EDIT: omigosh! Major gramma bummer right dar yesh!

This message was edited by sleva10 on Jan 27 2008.

quote sleva10

yup! But Kunoichi is way better then them once you get your elements correct and knows how to control her.

My original teams (first time I did the stories) was:

Wu

Kunoichi
Zhuo Yu
Lu Meng

Shu

Goemon Ishikawa
Wei Yan
Jiang Wei

Wei

Mitsunari Ishida
Pang Tong
Yoshimoyo Imagawa

SW

Okuni
Zhang Jiao
Cao Ren

---

Strangely, Zhuo Yu and Lu Meng was only in level 24 once I got to Koshi castle... Kunoichi was level 99 so she was my first maxed character. Close up came Goemon, Yoshimoto, Okuni, Nene and Mitsunari. The rest of the lot quickly followed though... the only characters that ain't in level 99 now is:

Pang De (45)
Lu Bu (28 - though, fully maxed weapon and PIR)
Orochi (78 - I refuse to control him as he sucks... my brother loves him, so he's the one in charge of Orochi)

and

Kenshin Uesugi (97 - to lazy to do the two last levels... and I need the growth points for my Kunoichi dagger collection)

I am the demi-god of Warriors Orochi... though... I tend to stick with the weak... but I make them stronger than the strongest characters... I am the Kunoichi and Yoshimoto abuser


(( believe it or not... but they are my two strongest characters... I can't belive people think they suck, cuz they're shockwave range can get quite immense with
Flash
Bolt
Range
Ice
Agility
Might
Slay
Brave

but no one dares to try...
actually... the ones you like best always somewhat turns into your best character Nene is a naturaly good character, but my Kunoichi pwns her sorry butt big time )))

quote strategist_jeffo

Well, one of the main reasons why I don't use yoshimoto is his moveset and range suck that badly. Plus, I wouldn't use bolt on him. I prefer the enemies to fly away then keep em at a very short distance, were they can team up on me.

quote sleva10

quote strategist_jeffo

Well, one of the main reasons why I don't use yoshimoto is his moveset and range suck that badly. Plus, I wouldn't use bolt on him. I prefer the enemies to fly away then keep em at a very short distance, were they can team up on me.

Yoshimoto is pretty useless without bolt really
But I do have three different weapons for him according to his role in the battle. His STTT is probably his strongest attack... though, it's pretty stationed and against Orochis henchmen it's a pretty bad move.
Kunoichi MUST have bolt. Her SSTTT ending is just way to powerfull with bolt (the smokebomb effect in the end).
She can actually stun quite a large area with that attack, and with flash, ice and slay at the same time the attack is just kicking Orochi far up in his sorry behind. I want people to try before they judge.
Yoshimoto... I can agree that he sucks, but I have a marvelous technique with him which makes him a beast ... so... he's pretty special

Thats very true Joe... but by somereason, the Samurai Warriors cast turn out 100 times better than most of the Dynasty Warriors crew.
Forexample: Zuo Ci. Who is a awesomatic killing machine in DW5 is off course great in this game too, but If you put up a list over all the characters that's better than him, more than 60% of them will be from the SW cast.

There's actually no bad characters in the game, but the SW crew have no Average characters either (exept from Yoshimoto that is, you'll have to be good with him in general to make him good...)

For example. Okuni is a beast if you use her correctly, Ranmaru is probably one of the best crowd clearers in the game which at the same time moves fas AND can keep himself alive (he's practically untouchable in his charge attacks), Nobunaga Oda is just way to good (I find him better than Lu Bu, Tadakatsu and Orochi... though Orochi sucks), and off course Nene and Kunoichi is something very special.
Nene have her wide range, all around attacks (she's like a SSX massive-mutant upgrade) while as Kunoichi is one of the fastest in the game, though being a power type. Kunoichi also have some very cool run and shockwave attacks (I'm refering to her SSTTT which is after my experience the attack with widest range in the game, it practically stuns the entire Koshi castle fortress if you have the previously mentioned elements)

Goemon is probably the only character in the game who have the same shockwave effect as Kunoichi, but Goemons got even more shockwaves... but by some reasons they won't egnite the same devestating effects
I wonder if that shockwave bonus have something to do with the jump charge? I can practically make enemies miles away fall to the ground or turn to ice by just simply jumping and pressing the triangular button. It's of massive help against Orochi

Probably some kind off: "Exscuse us for removing those characters in SW 2, we shall repat our depths by adding a special super overpowered shockwave and jump charge attack to them!!!"
They should have given that effect to Ina and Yoshimoto too!
(Ina has her SST, the attack has the same shockwave as Kunoichis but does not cover the same area)

I've actually made the game go super slowly by using Kunoichis SSTTT. You see Kunoichi move back to her normal stance in a slow motioned backward saltoo. It took like 6 seconds before I could start running around again. The enemies was just Vibrating!
This was December the 18th 2007, Koshi Castle Chaos, against Orochi! I did NOT defeat any main generals during that attack (which makes a slow motion effect).
Orochi lost half of his lives and I just ignited him using my STTT and he and everyone bellow him was dead (with bolt this attack needs perfection... Kunoichi need to juggle an enemy already stunned or in the air for the attack to finnish. If the enemy falls down before the ending bomb, the bomb wont be thrown... and that bomb is super strong )

Well, I agree with almost everything you say, sleva. Nobunaga is a killing machine, but he is definetly not better than Lu Bu, Tadakatsu Honda, or Orochi. For Lu Bu, well, you know the reason for that, same goes for Tadakatsu. Orochi, though, his T, Jump T, and musou move are very deadly. If you equip him with agility, slay, brave, might, flash, drain, and an element, then his T and Jump T, can wipe a whole crowd of enemies in a matter of seconds. His musou is like to, but instead, it juggles the enemy, rather than sending him away. Okuni can be good, if you know how to use her effectively, and I hate her. Ranmaru is one of the best crowd killers, Nene does have a wide range, well, some of her moves anyways. Kunoichi is probably the fastest power type

Lu Bu is, in my opinion, poor in this game :/. He sucks in comparison to his former self, and his C3 isn't half as effective as in previous installments. The element only activates on the last swing of his SST, whereas a lot of peoples' activate every swing, just something I noticed. But then again I've never really had a thing for Lu Bu, I like the... "original" and "creative" characters rather than the powerhouses who can, supposedly, blaze through legions of peons .

Also, yeah, Okuni's a right beast! ! R1 special then yanno, bitta SSSR1: iced peons and a dead general for ya there.

Nobunaga is far better than Lu Bu, Tadakatsu and Orochi IMO. His C2, C3 and C4 are all amazing allowing him to destroy bosses and troops alike. I'm not too keen on the powerhouses either; Lu Bu and Orochi I found very poor and Tadakatsu I liked but nowhere near as much as many other people.
Okuni's fun to play as but I hate Ranmaru- he's about the most boring character ever and he's more womanly than Zhang He

Nene I love, like Nobunaga because of all of her charge attacks being good and her R1 is fun. I prefer her to Kunoichi probably because of the range advantage and I like Nene's moveset more. Also, Kunoichi's R1 doesn't work on my game

As for the samurai vs dynasty warrior argument, I agree that dynasty has more weaker characters- too many sword users etc but I would say that both have a fairly even amount of good characters.
Oh and I love Zuo Ci so he'd be pretty high in my rankings

Yeah these kinda things actually varies from what kind of type you are. I'm myself a big fan of Zuo Ci, but I find too many characters better than him. Lu Bu can be good, but he is so reduced in this game. Orochi is kinda lame as he only has three attacks that are effective. T, Jump + T and musou, besides, all three attacks have the same effect. His normal attacks hits way too high so he easily missed.

Tadakatsu Honda is better than Orochi, and Lu Bu, but he actually ain't that great if you try to solo chaos with him.
His speed is a real pain in the ass together with his Power type. His power type makes him unable to fall as quickly, and with Tadakatsu's high resistance he can stand on his feey forever. Believe me, this isn't a good thing on Chaos. Tadakatsu takes a hell load of damage by just simply running throygh crowds while as other characters will fall and the damage will be reduced.

Okuni is GOOD! Her technique type makes her a wandering beast, the fast charges fills in all of her gaps and spaces and actually increase her chances of perfect combos and juggles. Giving her fire, flash, agility and slay will ultimate her powers and leave Orochi in a pile of dust.
Nobunaga is even better. Okuni is mostly stationed, but Nobunaga's attacks are offensive, defensive but at the same time quick and move over a distance. This allows him too first stun Orochi with his SSTTT for example, before thrusting through them with his sword, or staying still using his SSTTT clearing an area around him. Combined with R1 attacks these attacks are probably the best in the game.
(try SS(R1) )

Ranmaru Mori. I aree he can be abit boring sometimes, but he has the skills of Okuni, Nobunaga and Kunoichi.
How come?
Let's see:

• He has both offensive and defensive attacks
• Super elemental attack effects
• He can easily stun crowds and leave them open for juggling
• Has almost none gaps and spaces in his charge attacks
• He moves over a great distance
• His stationed attacks can clear away enemies 360 degrees around him
• He is one of the fastest Power types
• Beast