ichiban

[Sadken101]

his main attacks seem to be super underpowered, the rest of the gangs attacks seem good though, what is the best way to level up his striking

[imag2OOO]

idk what ur doing but my basic attack does 1300 dmg and im only at lvl 32 i just maxxed my heros bat as fast at possible

[Ariko]

I love my desperado Ichiban (with snakeskin vest Majima skin, because it looks perfect when he does execution shots on downed enemies).

[Kapika96]

Get a better weapon. That's almost certainly the issue there.

If you mean the Freelancer job which doesn't allow a weapon, that's probably the issue. IIRC it was a pretty rubbish job in the first game too. Change to a better job and don't look back.

TBH it does give more attack/magic per job rank to make up for the lack of a weapon, so when ranked up sufficiently it may still be viable, but yeah if your other characters have really good equipment it's likely to lag behind.

[5tyle]

focus on ichiban hero job, upgrade his bat

[Jack Croakman]

Raw damage comes down to the weapon you're using

[Sombrero]

The Freelancer job is pretty bad (as it was in the last game) because you can't equip a weapon so you miss on weapon bonuses and if you upgrade/find good weapons your weapons will be much much stronger than Kasuga bare fists.

At equal level if you are struggling with dealing damage or taking too much damage it's most likely that your gear is too low quality it's as simple as that. Spend your resources wisely, do side activites to get more money if you are short on money and get better equipment and the game will be a lot easier.

(I find Kiryu's base job to be quite underwhelming as well for similar reasons but at least he has diversity in the damage type he has access to and his ultimate ability is incredibly OP so it makes up for it).