Ninja's vs Samurai

I have to know whose better...... samurai ..................or............. NINJA'S!

Ok here it goes........dun dun dun. ninja. They are just to damn pro.

I'm going with the Ninja.

Ninjas are sneaky but samurais are strong but I like the samurai swords better.

Ninja

Ninja fights dirty in group, Samurai have code of honor. Ninja can kill samurai in their sleep.

I suppose you can say its dirty, but ninja really just utilized stealth and guerrilla tactics as opposed to close quarters combat. I definitely have to say ninja are better. Samurai are very structured and it makes them very susceptible to attack from ninja.

In a fair fight the Samurai would win every time. The Samurai are better equipted for combat. They sport heavy armor and more weapons. If the Ninja gets the jump and sneak up on the Samurai then the ninja would win. Samurai made fighting their profession. Stealth and assassination was the Ninjas profession.

Not true. The job of a ninja was stealth. That's not always hiding in the shadows and going for surprise attacks. Its recorded historically that many ninja wore the same or very similar armor as samurai, for whatever purpose. It was very easy to get the jump on samurai. Typically, a samurai was known to carry a daisho, which consisted of a katana and either a wakizashi or tanto, and maybe another weapon such as a yari or some other polearm. If the mission called for it, a ninja could at anytime equipped with smoke bombs, metsubushi, shuriken, various bladed weapons, and a shinobigatana.

'As the blossum is to the cherry tree, are the Samurai to men'

Hana wa Sakura, Hito wa Bushi. I don't remember, who said that(

Well,ninjas are not opposite to samurais. A bit of history: Minamoto Eshitsune was a Samurai, but he was master of ninjutsu as well. If you're speaking about combat between samurai and shinobi...If it's ninja from Kouga, he won't last for even a minute in melee combat. If it's Iga's ninja, he can win, cause ninjas from Iga were masters of kenjutsu and weren't as good in stealth as Kougas.

I've never heard of Minamoto Eshitsune, but I have heard of Minamoto Yoshitsune who is often referred to in history as one of the earliest ninja. However, there's no actual proof to these claims. "As the legend of the ninja grew, so to did the amount of historic figures that were newly assigned ninja status. Any samurai who had an unaccounted for period of wandering in the mountains became a possible candidate..." After Yoshitsune's brother Yoritomo began to consolidate his power as shogun, Yoshitsune was forced to flee to the Mutsu region under the protection of Fujiwara no Hidehira. In order to escape he disguised himself as a yamabushi. People have pieced together these bits of information and come up with the legend that Minamoto Yoshitsune was a ninja.

Although a number of historical figures can be identified as ninja, its difficult to trace the time from which the ninja came into being. One theory is that they originated from rebels favoring Buddhism who fled to the mountains to escape persecution and death in the 7th century. Its said that they refined teachings from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. However, the earliest definitive historical records involving ninja came about in the 15th century.

Sorry, I kind of went off on a tangent. I do that at times.

hmm... let's see:

nothing would keep a Ninja from using a Glock or a Deagle

but a traditional Samurai on the other hand....


that aside, i think they would be fairly matched

Show a samurai some guns and other weapons, and this is what you get.



SAMURAI COMMANDO's

Holy fuck that was funny. There's a manga too. I'm not sure if they're the same or if there are some differences, but I am definitely going to check them both out.

I watched Samurai Commandos a little while after I responded and it was actually pretty good.

Samurai were generally better fighters. As nobility, they also would have superior training and equipment. In a straight up fight where you gave each of them a sword, Samurai would win easily. The question is can the ninja make up for this by using stealth weapons, taking advantage of the fact that samurai were somewhat encumbered by armor, and other such tactics.

Either way, the true masters of one on one closed quarters combat were the European rapier and knife duelists.

I watched a video of a duel between kendo and European fencing and the fencer kicked the other guy's ass.

The western styles of fighting used for dueling were specialized in taking on a single opponent. The eastern styles of swordplay were usually more generally adapted to warfare, and thus, they lack the agility and speed of the rapier style.

The duelists don't have to worry about things like charging horses, multiple enemies, or sundering armor, which allows for superior specialization at fighting a single opponent.

Have u ever considered of dual wielding style in in the eastern region of the world tht posses the agility tht is far more superior style and deadlier strike than rapier fencing style ?

Welp i gotta say that theres a stand still. I personally vote for Nija's (obviously)but i need more posts to break the tie!
(Thanks for the replies)