Kiba (Earth)

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Traits: Male, Konoha Ninja, Secret Jutsu User

Skills:

Mystery: Tunneling Fang (40 Chakra, 2-round cooldown, 1 battlefield cooldown)
"Causes Ninjutsu and Taijutsu damage to the selected opponent’s unit and Repulse. When Akamaru is present, cause Ninjutsu attack damage and Repulse against up to four of the opponent’s units."
- Labeled as primarily Taijutsu, secondarily Ninjutsu
- The labeling implies that with Akamaru, he only deals Ninjutsu damage. I’m pretty sure he still deals both Taijutsu and Ninjutsu damage.
- Earth Element

Standard: Taijutsu Attack
"Attack the front enemy and has a chance of Triple Combo and to cause Knockdown."
- Taijutsu damage
- Nothing special really without Akamaru

Passive: Man-Beast Clone
“At the beginning of the battle, Akamaru, Kiba’s dog, changes into a Man-Beast Clone who looks like Kiba. He’s subject to the attributes of Kiba. The Man-Beast Clone is capable of a Standard attack, and Kiba can regain life with each action."
- Labeled as “Ninjutsu”
- The wording’s a bit *terbrained… basically it’s a clone and can attack, and before each action Kiba and Akamaru heal a little bit. Not sure why that little healing was part of this ability, it seems kinda random...

Passive: Bond Combo
"Can replace Standard attack, Man-Beast Clone can launch attack that has a certain hit and Knockdown."
- Labeled as "Taijutsu"
- Another kinda-confusing one. Basically, if Akamaru is alive, Kiba’s standard attack is replaced with a “Bond Combo” attack that always causes Knockdown. I *think* the Bond Combo will not trigger if Akamaru is immobile/sleeping/chaotic... but I don't know for sure.

Chase: Rip - Wolf Fang Over Fang
"Triggered with at least 10 Combo, randomly attack 3 of the opponent’s units."
- Primarily Taijutsu, secondarily Ninjutsu
- High hit count; good for getting high hitcounts and triggering higher High Combo chases

GNW Kiba’s stat growth (from highest to lowest) is Life, Defense, Attack, Resistance, and Ninjutsu.

My thoughts:
One of the first characters I got, and he's been a staple of my team ever since. Primarily a tank; he's pretty healthy and can protect multiple rows with his clone. He works well with a variety of characters, mainly knockdown-chasing characters like Tobi and repulse-chasing characters like Tenten or the Lightning/Wind/Earth mains.
That said, if Akamaru's dead, the mystery's really not worth 40 chakra. So, in a way his usefulness is somewhat dependent on Akamaru's survival.

In a way, he seems to be a sort of lesser Sage Naruto. Sage can ultimately do pretty much everything he can, plus extra chakra and a regenerating clone. The only thing Sage lacks that he has is the little regeneration and the high combo chase, which is mainly going to be useful in the future for its high hitcount to trigger the 15/20/30 combo chases that some of the unreleased characters have... like apparently Roshi.

Completely outclasses regular Kiba, of course.

What are your thoughts on this ninja? Would you prefer using him or other tanky combo-starters such as Sage Naruto?

This post was last edited by Dosu at 2017-2-26 10:01