as for ninjas availible:

For trial coins and 9tails, Personally I always used a insta-barrier ninja (e.g : Onoki), Iruka and asuma WB. CC is a must to keeps out that cat from attacking and keeps health full except for the round where the cat tosses rain coins.

Hashirama is 1 step behind of any insta barrier ninja because when he cast mystery he did not perform an attack, meaning you loses a single dps, Except you can cast the barrier and move+1 jutsus at the 1st round at the same time. So hashi can cast barrier and cc. if not, you will lose DPS.
afterall, both coins cat and ninetails needs DPS right ?

But Overall, Earth main is not a way to go if you want to have the best DPS gameplay for both coins and 9tails IMO. :P

Hashi is the best vs 9 tails or any other summon for a barrier ninja. His bonus vs summons cannot be ignored

I would think you should be able to deal significant damage with pose, shield and lee/wind blade. With main using the 2x attack mystery, lee will be hitting 9 tails for 4x under shield and at max health. WB should probably be better than iruka since your main has a passive that can start off with shield right? (cant recall the opportunity cost of using this, but it might be the same line as strong armor which you dont need)

Of course the chakra cost seems a bit awkward, so you can play around to maximise it.

Thanks to Asuma WB + Sage Jiraya, I'm able to cast Super lightened boulder jutsu and Hashi's barrier at round 1. The overall damage was slightly higher with the hashirama team compare to onoki, but not anything worth changing team over.

I guess Onoki is the best for 9tails as well, unless you are going 5 rounds with Enchantment of earth + Hashirama.

Try something around 8 gates lee

There is no way onoki should beat hashi in terms of giving your team damage output -_-
Lee hitting 4x when you double his attacks with main mystery twice in 4 rounds under asuma wb and pose buff is insane, you should try it lol.

lee (40 chakra), main (40 chakra), barrier (20 chakra)
The skills are just too expensive for fights with few rounds.

Yes but with hashi 70% boost, and bonus vs summons, you will be doing a ton more damage against 9 tails
Just try 8 gates lee, WB, and hashi
r1 - hashi
r2 - main 2x attack
r3 - 8 gates
r4 - main + hashi

I guarantee it will dwarf ur sage jiraiya damage lol. Use pose of duel and give shield at start to ur team.

I don't use Jiraya for 9tails, that's just for the coin trial.
9tails is usually Onoki, Asuma WB, Iruka.

Not sure where you get the info about bonus vs summons, nothing about that in Hashirama's description or skills.

He is probably confusing him with Yamato, who has 100% bonus damage to summons and bosses. It was the old 9 tails team and was as good as fire mains, Yamato/Iruka/WB Asuma, but i don't know if it still holds up, Lee/Yamato/Wb Asuma or Lee/Onoki/WB Asuma might be better after seeing Lees damage in ninja exams.

Yeah my bad, got confused with Yamato haha.
Yamato, Lee 8 gates and WB

Was surprised at ninja exam 140 for how powerful Lee wasl.

Yamato, Lee 8 gates and WB sounds like a solid team for WB / group summon.
Replacing Yamato with Onoki will result in shorter rounds, which might increase the DPS if using will of fire.

Guess I just need to test both This post was last edited by Eplox at 2017-6-1 06:34

I use WB Asuma, Gates Lee and Guy for coins and switch WB for Yamato on fox. 46k-47k power, but I'm not 85 so I can't comment on extreme, but I can clear expert coins with damage to spare. I'm sure you could find someone better thank Guy, I just like his heals during coins.

x Yamato x
x Main x
Guy Lee x

3/4/*/3/3/Tonton/Windmill for Fox

x x x
x Main x
Guy Lee Asuma

3/1/4/2/3/Serpent/Windmill for coins This post was last edited by Bojangle at 2017-6-10 11:47

I do not have Hashirama, have used the same team for ninetails for months. (tried others but does not work nearly as well)

Guy, Yamoto, Kakuzu CF
Guy/iruka/any other buff works but kakuzus basic attacks are elemental and deals decent dmg.

3/4/x/3/3/tentonsofdmg

x Guy x
x Yamato x
Kakuzu CF x

hashi,aburame,wb asuma 2/1/any chase/3/1

you're welcome :)