Hashirama has to be run with multiple interrupters and there's very few ways to reliably protect him from being acupuncture rushed to stop his t1 cast.
The current meta I feel is heavily dependent on initiative and protecting automated barriers. IE Mei/Ao, if the team has higher initiative an ability like Hashi's will simply never be casted and you've wasted a slot more or less.
That aside, his interrupt chase is still nice to have if your not able to run an acupuncture ninja. But really, any non-prompt ability right now is just super easy to deal with. The ninjutsu buff he gives to any character at the start is pretty awesome, but nobody wants to run a ninja just for a passive buff in PvP.
I'm surprised nobody brought up the fact that he heals from Chakra gain i.e Sage Jiraiya, and Sage Naruto. It's super broken.
Edit for the quote ^: Unless he's sitting in the corner of your ranked battle formation, you'll very rarely find this useful. I've had him for a long time and when someone wants to kill him he drops like a rock. It's hardly even comparable to a passive heal from a healer.
This post was last edited by Loaf at 2017-2-5 09:49