If it is a large-group fight, the samurai can easily win. The ninja and the samurai usually collaborated. ... During the war of Tensho-Iga (1581), the ninja clans were devastated by the samurai (The forces of Oda Nobunaga). Even though the ninja were defeated, their guerilla fighting skills impressed the samurai.

Are samurai stronger than ninja in Naruto?

The samurai in Naruto initially came off as significantly weaker than the ninja. ... It didn't help matters that Mifune was the only samurai with any sort of impressive feats in the story. Nevertheless, the group were stronger as a whole than they were given credit for, earning the reputation that Onoki gave them.

Could a ninja be a samurai?

So could ninja be samurai at the same time? You could, theoretically. There would have been some sort of distinction, because samurai were often extremely high class, but ninja not necessarily so. But there was an overlap in the middle.