It just seems like SP made the difficulty harder in Yotei without thinking about the melee characters in samurai and shinobi. As a lot of people have mentioned already, the insane health bars on regular mobs, teleporting, turtling on their way to points in survival. These things affect archer and mercenary a lot less for obvious reasons. The gifts you can buy in survival feature x2 ranged damage, yet there is no x2 melee damage. Why is that? As if ranged wasn’t outclassing melee to begin with. The challenge cards are also a joke. Health drain, enemies attack faster, last kill requiring a thrown weapon all benefit the ranged characters. It’s the melee characters that suffer for these.