Samurai Mount (PFS)

[Fist2Jaw]

My brother's Teifling Samurai is almost ready for retirement (He's level 11) and my brother is looking for a good game to finish him with. I'm glad my bro managed to get this far and I want to try to help him, but his samurai seems pretty well built for him. But I remembered that my brother almost never uses his mount and likely hasn't touched it since level 1, so I'm hoping to somehow kite out his mount so it can be more useful to him.

My brother's samurai is not a mounted fighter by any means, so I'm hoping to make his mount similarly independent from his character. Additionally his mount doesn't necessarily have to be a horse since I doubt my brother has been bothering to keep track of it, but in the event that he can't change it I'd also like builds and such for a samurai's horse.

[Protoman]

He's level 11, what kinda changes are you expecting that would really matter at this point? It's too late to do an archetype, swap skills or feats around without asking, "Is it worth the PP at this point?".

But if willing to retrain, Monstrous Mount and Monstrous Mount Mastery feats and picking up a griffon might be fun for him. Get a flying mount (lot slower than regular griffon, but still cool) that can pounce!

[Fist2Jaw]

Well, this mostly concerns his mount, not the samurai himself. Basically I'm asking for stats and builds for an animal companion.

I don't intend to change anything about my brothers Samurai, only to add his oft-forgotten mount to his arsenal.

Basically, I'm not concerned about anything that would require my brothers samurai retaining or dedicating his feats for his mount. Based off what I read about the Samurai off the book, it's essentially an 11 level druid animal companion. Thus some advice about what sort of large sized, mountable creatures could my brother's samurai could take that could be more helpful as a fighter than simply as a mount. I know I'm not really giving a lot to work with here, which is why I'm also stumped on what to do.

[Protoman]

If the samurai is medium sized, the only options he's got for his mount is horse or camel. The Mount class feature is more limited than the druid's animal companion. The Monstrous Mount feat can add some extra options.

The only real advice would be up Intelligence to 3 so he can take any feat besides the limited list of feats in the animal companion section. Some useful feats would be Power Attack and Narrow Frame.

For skills, get some ranks in perception and acrobatics, maybe survival to track with scent.

Look through the list of animal tricks. Make sure to get "attack" twice in order to be able to attack anything; "attack" once means the animal is willing to attack normal creatures, but needs to be pushed to attack undead/aberrations/freaks/etc.