ITT: Char Creation Questions

Thematically, definitely a Paladin. Mechanically, Kensei Monk probably fits a bit better.

Why does no one know about kensei monk.

It's not even officially printed in a book, it's stuck in the realm of online articles

also it's mechanically somewhat counter intuitive

What is a kensei monk, exactly?

>Kensei Monk
>Vengeance Paladin with a homebrew rule replacing Heavy Armor proficiency with the monk's Unarmored AC bonus.

Honestly, the 5E pally isn't particularly magical either. Most of those spells are just SMITECHOW, and the Vengeance Pally is basically all about being a devoted, persistent, mobile, and very vengeful force of justice. Perfect for chasing down Aku.

A playtest-stage monk school that lets them benefit from non-traditional monk weapons as "kensei weapons" which get different benefits. It's still, read literally, broken as hell since most weapons break the monk's core features when wielded.
If you want to be fast and spiritual and good at both armed and unarmed fighting and go about unarmored, monk is the best bet, probably Way of the Open Hand so you can move enemies around.
Paladin would be a good way to get the same personality but would be most efficient with different weapons and armor; you'd look more like an actual samurai. Battlemaster Fighter also learns maneuvers and you could still have the character and code of honor without it being baked into your class, and can do weapon tricks.
Having just watched the series, I want to run a character or NPC based on the robot from Episode L. Lulu, sweet thing...

Because UA is unbalanced trash

Isn't the only feature that actually breaks the martial arts bonus attack?

New Jack is a warrior or paladin. Old Jack was probably a monk

It also revokes the "Unarmed strikes do more than 1 damage and you can use Dex" part.
So you don't get your bonus attack you'd normally rely on each round, and also if you do Flurry or use some of your attacks for unarmed strikes (As you'll want to do; one kensei feature gives them bonus AC if they weave together weapon and unarmed attacks) the hits do 1 + dumpstat

Sounds like crap, I'll go with regular Monk or maybe vengeful paladin like and mentioned

If your DM is a Samurai Jack fan you could ask him to let you use a katana as a monk weapon.

Why has nobody said Rogue? He's a trained ninja, archer, on top of being very nimble and acrobatic.

I'd say he'd fit better the Rogue class, albeit a lawful good one. Don't forget that Jack did wear armor when available, it's just not convenient for him to do so since he's a vagrant and is probably piss poor.

Also take into consideration that Jack is a mary sue, for better or for worse. So he's amazing at everything he does, so don't restrict yourself in thinking your character needs to be as great as him.

There is a literal Samurai class in 5e unearthed arcana, friend

I'd actually stat him as a barbarian. Fights unarmored but can wear a suit of medium samurai armor, can take a shit-ton of damage, can use just about any weapon. Just fluff stuff like rage into focus (or keep it as rage, he gets badass when angry) and maybe take the tavern brawler feat for unarmed (or drop a level in monk).

Rage Jack literally split off into a separate entity. Anger is not an emotion he can allow himself often

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>I want to make a Samurai Jack character in DnD5e.

So you know all those badass things Jack did? You'll never do shit like that, so settle in fucker.

>Jack is a mary sue

>cant adapt to new cultures
>stubborn
>cant into technology
>actually had to train his whole life to obtain his skills

nah son

>step one
paladin
>step two
20+ dex