Because all the lightning teams I've seen running this lineup aren't using root, I've been ripping through them as a wind main by blinding them round 1 which essentially negates all their damage, and then mopping up round 2 with sage naruto. On the other hand, I can't touch the water main teams, and no one I know has a found a good answer to it (besides hard light blitz), so I would have to say the water team is better overall, despite losing directly to the lightning team.