Hello, I would recommend replacing sasuke with ten ten because you are not using the lightning main. However when i was low level using lightning main i used the team, Guy, ten ten, sasuke. In your situation sasuke is not very use-full because his barrier only has effect on hinata,You may even want to consider using haku for the water barrier to buff your entire team. Hope this helps a little.

Thanks for the advice! I didn't realize going all water was the ideal strategy. What is an acceptable water class tank to replace hinata?

Also how do I position them? I am at a loss trying to discern the pros and cons of different arrangements.

I'm not sure if you've tried this, but you can try switching out Suigetsu for Kakashi.

There's no Water-attribute ninja with tanking skills as good as Hinata or Gaara maybe, but Zabuza makes a decent frontman if you decide to make *l-water team. He works well with Haku too.

Position them according to your chase chain, and their passives (when applicable, make use of it).

Sorry for the continued questions but when you say position him according to the chase chain, how do you do that? I don't really understand how the chase thing works, I've gotten by on trial and error so far but I can't seem to make heads or tails of it.

It's alright, we've all been there before! Can you tell me what talents & summon you use with the lineup you posted?

Regenerative healing, flowing whip, dissection blade, healing tips, ninja monkey

Wish someone said that before I used a ton of resources upgrading tenten

It's gonna be a bit lengthy so bear with me.

Knockdown, repulse, high/low floats etc. are statuses. Every chase is triggered by a status and produces another status to trigger the next chase. I'll use the lineup you posted as an example.
Total chases = 8, combo triggers are either knockdown (KD), low float (LF) or high float (HF). According to your position, this is what your combo chains look like (correct me if I'm wrong, though).

A KD triggers Hinata > AF Main > Sasuke > Suigetsu > Hinata > Sasuke = 6 combo
A LF triggers Suigetsu > Hinata >Hinata > AF > Sasuke > Sasuke > Sasuke = 7 combo
A HF triggers Sasuke > Suigetsu > Hinata > Hinata > AF > AF > Sasuke = 7 combo

Suigetsu and Sasuke have one similar chase (low float to repulse), but Suigetsu will always move to chase LF first because he's in position #2 ahead of Sasuke who's in #3. If you switch their positions around, Sasuke will move first. But since they chase and produce the same statuses, nothing changes much.

Let's say AF's standard attack produces a KD. Why does Hinata chase it first instead of AF? Same reason: Hinata's at #1 while AF's at #4. The #1 ninja will be given priority to move first, then #2 and so on. Since they produce different statuses, if you switch them around your combo will turn out pretty different.

That's the basic mechanics of chase and combo chains. Basic combo chains depend a lot on your lineup's positions. In your case, your full combo should be 8 considering that all your chases chain together properly.

There are combo chains that don't depend on positions at all, called circle combos. When triggered, it will give you a full combo regardless of how you position your lineup. Try the lineup I suggested (switch out Suigetsu for Kakashi) and use the white snake summon. You'll see how circle combos work :D

Little tip: Try using dissection blade with neurotoxin :P

Thank you! That is insanely helpful.

Anything else you don't understand about chases, just drop me a PM :lol

swap suigetsu for gnw kiba, move hinata to where sasuke is and move sasuke behind where suigetsu is.

use kd to high float chase and poison tai passive.

gnw kiba will always start a combo when akamaru is alive, so he will kd, hinata will chase and kd, main chases and high floats, sasuke chases to low float, sasuke chases to repulse, hinata chases to kd, kiba chases high combo, sasuke chases high combo.

debuffs inflicted:
main target 5 stacks of poison, paralyze, acupuncture, ignite
2 secondary targets are poisoned with 1 stack
1 secondary target is hit with ignite


this is the best f2p water team for early levels as kiba and sasuke hit realy hard and debuffs will stack fast to lock down the enemy starting turn 1, and all starting points will create a full combo

swap suigetsu for gnw kiba, move hinata to where sasuke is and move sasuke behind where suigetsu is.

Is this still worth it even though my gnw kiba is only two stars? It will be awhile until I can upgrade him.

BASIC LINEUP FOR ALL MAIN ( Earth, Fire, Ligthning,Water and Wind )
http://forum.naruto.oasgames.com/en/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=17007&fromuid=194789
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