we should know the ninjas you have, but a good advice is to use your main only in the end of the trial

Get a good line up against the other team, and retreat if u dont like how fight is going, dont be lazy :P

not sure if it will help, but Akatsuchi Shurado Tobi can be pretty solid team for survival. It kills fast, lives long :D

here are my ninjas




here are my ninjas

here 2 team from your ninja pool that can be used in survival

1st team, Sakura - Kankuro GNW - Guy - Neji(normal)
(Heal, interrupt, life leech, poison/ignite)

Kankuro - Guy - Neji
Sakura - x - x
x - x - x

this team can help you up to level 6 in survival, if more might then can go up to 8
*reason why i choose normal neji rather than the GNW ver. is because his mystery cd is 2 turn while GNW ver is 3.

2nd team, Sai - Zabuza(normal) - Tenten - Kabuto
(Heal, blinds , clones, crit)

x - x - x
Sai - Zabuza - x
Kabuto - Tenten - x

this team can be use alternately with team 1, the feature of this team is Zabuza mystery that can blind all non water ninja except your team is consist of all water nin; and with heal and clone by Kabuto and Sai, help as meat shield against enemy ninja.

There is no reason not to use your main in the early survival stages, but unlike your regular damage focused team, you will have to pick up healing for once. If you do things right, your entire team should come out undamaged.

For example,:
Kabuto Fire Main
Kakashi x x
GNW Neji x x
Main should use fire ball chase and low float to knockdown summon (this strings all your chase together)
Yes, neji is in move, 4, no it's not a mistake.
While this is a "general" formation, you should adjust formation before each fight such that kakashi clone gets killed in round 1 (or at least the primary tank)
Here is how it goes:
turn 1: use GNW neji AFTER enemy healer/cleanser have moved, if they have one, on the first ordered offensive mystery ninja they have(so not hinata, if that's what they have in slot 1). This will ensure that it *s around for round 2.
turn 2: fire main 2nd mystery on whoever casts a mystery (if you guessed wrong, feel free to restart, AI does the same thing EVERY time, so next time you will KNOW)
When to use kabuto clones? When your kakashi clone dies of course. If it doesn't die when slotted to soak the most of the damage, enemy isn't dealing enough standard attack damage to matter, your kabuto will heal fine. If it does die, look, 2 more bodies to block standard attack. (again, micro adjustment of position is helpful so that the clone actually tank the attacks)
As far as mystery is concerned, between your neji and your combo-to-neji, they shouldn't get any off. And usually, node 1-9 are fairly weak so after just those two rounds, they are half dead. Turn 3? mop up with kakashi going down on whatever can still cast mystery(unless that is in slot 1), that will also lead to neji chase and stop them.

No, the goal of first NINE (not 6, NINE) node is not "let's use a non-main team and it's fine if they die". The goal of the first NINE node is to beat them all without losing a single character and without any significant (>25%) scratch on ANY of your character. This will allow you, for 11 and 12, should you encounter a really tough team, throw an ENTIRE TEAM at it to just kill ONE character off the enemy, so that your main team can come in and mop up the rest. That is how you pass all survival EVERY time. If you waste a sub team early, then you are completely at the mercy of RNG on 11 and 12, if enemy is strong, you will run out of steam and fail.

try the team hinata , kabuto , tobi

I have my own way to beat survival trial (probably easier way lol). I would have 12 ninjas and put in 4 ninjas that works well together. Try to use three teams which one of them could be healing with leech life and inflicting debuff(one ninja), demolishing team(heavy combos, high damage output and lethal debuff) and other strategies. Example: you c*e ninjas to apuncture or interrupt then use other ninja to inflict debuff and then start combos giving you great advantage over your opponent. When they're defeated, i put in 4 other ninjas and hope to beat the current opponent that defeated my previous team. If it is defeated then i put in my main team last because i just want to make sure my main team doesn't receive any damage. That's why i use the other 2 teams first. My first team is doing very well. The line up isnnaruto 3*, rock lee 2*, sakura 2* and shizune 3* and its strategy is healing and leech life along with 6 combos maximum. My main team is Scarlet Blaze, sasuke 3*, hinata 3*, kabuto 2* This post was last edited by InfernoBurn at 2016-12-20 01:36
I'll make a guide about this.
This post was last edited by InfernoBurn at 2016-12-20 01:42

thanks for the advice but i have tried all of them and now i am on trial 10. even though only one of my ninjas is dead, i cant get past it no matter what.