Samson the Masher

Last Updated: June 4, 2025

Samson the Masher Overview

Samson is a tanky control-focused damage dealer who thrives in go-second teams, using counterattacks, stuns, and team accuracy buffs to pressure enemies while staying difficult to take down in both PvP and PvE progression.

The king of the jungle arrives in Telaria, with the brute force of his double smash, he can make your favourite champions shrivel in their boots ! Samson the Masher is one of the recent additions to the Skinwalkers Faction.

If seeking a hard to kill champion, who brings single target crowd control & decent AOE damage, then Samson is your Gorilla ! His A1 has a 45% chance to Stun single targets, this is not the best of chances, however the Affronted passive gives him a 50% chance to Counter attack targets when hit with strong, normal, or weak hits. This synergy may pay off in go 2nd Arena teams or Doom tower battles as examples. Samson has an Explosive temper, so he attacks all enemies whilst removing all Increase Defense buffs. He will then leap in with an extra hit if killing an enemy, being a conditional hit isn’t ideal, however if successful your enemies may be in trouble !

Beating his chest on his Roar to victory, Samson places a 50% Increase accuracy & Increase crit damage buff for 3 turns on all allies, then grants an extra turn. The increase accuracy is great for removing the Increase Defense buffs from enemies, whilst helping your allies in mitigating the chances of getting resisted, against high resist opposition.

His passive brings self damage mitigation by 20% when receiving damage from critical hits, then will counter attack enemies who do so ! This is good for landing potential Stun Debuffs, whilst giving him the best chance of survival against scary Nukers in Arena. Overall Samson is a solid tanky, damage dealer who is versatile for both PVP & PVE content, but will be extra helpful for players grinding through progression.

Samson the Masher Ratings

Core Areas

Dungeons

Hard Mode

Doom Tower

Faction Wars

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Arena Roles

Understanding Arena Roles

Champions normally form specific roles within an arena team. Our ratings define the roles that the champion fits and rates them on their ability to perform the roles. Below you can see a breakdown of all of our roles.

Cleanser

Champions with the Cleanser role will use their skills to remove debuffs and keep them from being re-applied.

Crowd Control

Champions with the Crowd Control role will use their skills to place soft (i.e. Provoke or Taunt) and hard (i.e Freeze or Stun) debuffs to disable enemy champions.

Damage

Champions with the Damage role will have skills that deal significant damage and are designed to defeat enemy champions.

Damage Absorption

Champions with the Damage Absorption role will have skills or effects that reduce the incoming damage your team takes. This can be through passive damage reduction or by applying skills such as Strengthen or Shields.

Healer

Champions with the Healer role will have skills that restore your champion's Health including Continuous Heals.

Debuffer

Champions with the Debuffer role will have skills that place debuffs that don't fall into Crowd Control or Skill Manipulator roles i.e. Decrease Defence. These champions may also have skills that remove Buffs.

Revive

Champions with the Revive role will have skills that bring your ally champions back from the dead including Revive on Death buffs.

Skill Manipulator

Champions with the Skill Manipulator role will have skills that increase enemy skill cooldowns or reduce your ally skill cooldowns.

Speed Manipulator

Champions with the Speed Manipulator role will have skills that affect the turn meter of your allies or enemies. This includes speed buffs and debuffs aswell as direct turn meter effects.