I don't want to * talk but I do feel the need to defend Hashirama here. He is a powerful ninja when you consider the boosts he gives. All this talk about cursed Hidan etc. is pointless imo because most people running Hashirama are also fire mains, which means they are shielded from hidan in R1, and In R2 you will get hit by a lot of boosted damage. Think of it this way, you have fire main boost from either ninjutsu surge or Fire boost (Depending on your main attacker), plus Iruka, plus Hashi and then since the hidan damage team doesn't have any CC you also have Hashi barrier boost. Even if your opponents do have 1 CC all it takes is a carefully timed barrier to pull it off, it can be virtually unblockable. The total amount of buffs come out to +140% ninjutsu if they use the flame buff from fire main, or +115% with ninjutsu surge. That amount of power will basically cripple your opponents entire team.

Once Jinchuriki treasure comes out I think Hashi will be useless for PVP, but imo he is amazing right now because he can counter auto-barriers if you happen to have less Init than your opponent. Of course we could go back and forth about this all day imagining situations in which our respective teams win or lose, but the Hashirama team is something that I came to in response to double healer teams, or anti-CC teams that became popular. And it has proven itself to be a good enough team, at least for me.
EDIT: I just wanted to add that server 2 still has a lot of competition, I think we are thriving. I don't win every fight because sometimes I come across a team that catches me off guard (plus S2 has a lot of bad asses). So please don't think I'm saying this is the end all be all team. But the whole point of my post was that you cannot discount Hashirama and say he is *. Even my biggest rivals will tell you that he is a powerful ninja.
This post was last edited by Beji at 2017-2-24 15:36

Hanzo isn't CC bro, if anything he is anti-CC. My name is Beji and I play on S2. And I don't think you read all of my points very clearly.

You talking like you a champ but I think you confused that a for a u brother.

Man you talking about Danzo. Get out of here.

Honestly that is a fair assessment. Hiruzen is the main damage dealer. But people tend to go after Hashirama first because of the whole reaper thing. The boosts really help Hiruzen, especially since he is a fire type. There is no set strategy for the team I use because it depends on whoever I am fighting and if I have more init than them. So there is a lot more room for error, but with the higher risk comes the higher reward.

Your team is obviously good, I was just saying its not fair to say that Hashirama is * when IMO he is still one of the greats. It just takes the right team. My first post did sound bad, but I only meant to express that Hashi is okay.

The mobilization event that offers Hashi and Hanzo is a good one I think. I mean you could get like 1.5 Hashi frags a day, or 3 Hanzo frags. The alternative are medium refinements or those Cave Keys. I don't think these events are meant to immediately give you a ninja, but its good for free to play because they can slowly build up on either rare ninja or power just by being active.

IMO the Mission Mobilization is one of the better F2P events. Since you already have a team you like all you gotta do is go for them refinements. Add that on top of monthly events and the medium refinements you can buy from the shop and you are looking at a good haul, and all for free.