Greatest knight in series

[Wolf Kanno]

I count samurai as something different, same with Magic Knights like Celes, though you did remind me that General Leo is a pretty badass knight.

As a character class, I could see how you would. But in Japan, the samurai were the knights. Knights lived and died to protect their king. Samurai did the same for their feudal lord. Both typically came from some line of nobility as it was generally unheard of for farmers and serfs to become knights and samurai and both had a strict code of honor. Either was trained from childhood, whether 3 or 10 years of age. The one difference is, as far as I can tell, knights were not generally asked to perform seppuku (death by their own hand). Although I've heard the term "fall on one's own sword", the term is merely an Anglicized version of hara-kiri. While a few non-Japanese warriors have considered the act throughout history, nowhere has it been so prevalent as in Japan.

There should be more samurai characters in Final Fantasy. I mean main named characters whose class you can't choose. So that pretty much makes Cyan and Auron the only ones I know of... so they should start putting in more.

As for best knight... I'll throw Steiner a bone... at least when he's in Trance, he looks like a paladin.

Why would Cyan not be a knight?! If he doesn't qualify for I don't get why freya (the oversized rat with a spear) should! Plus she's not a pure knight she's a dragoon.

Cecil is a pretty cool knight, he comes from the dark side !

To me, Samurai, Dragoons are both Knights, just a specific class. Not too different from Paladin or Dark/Black Knights. In the Samurai's case, it's just a cultural difference.

While historically Samurai are the Japanese equivalent of Knights, to me, when I think of Knight I think of the actual class of knights we've seen in the series. I don't count Samurai and Dragoons in this group cause why they are technically knights, I'm trying to stick to the pure form of the class as opposed to giving love to Job roles/characters who already get a substantial amount of love.

I actually do classify Auron as a knight despite appearing more like a samurai simply because all of his skills and abilities are more inline with traditional FF Knights (Guard, Break Abilities) as opposed to Samurai of which he uses very few skills associated with the class naturally.