The plot instance difficulty scales with your main character level. Some of them are ridiculously strong if you're doing them at the first level they become available. Leveling up makes them a lot easier, especially compared to trying to get more power at the same level.

Was having a lot of trouble trying to do it at level 81 and 41k power, so I stopped trying until today when I just hit level 82. Came back and beat it with the same team (a few hundred power higher) in 1 try using Wind Main, Gaara 5K, Sage Naruto, Iruka and the Sand Dust mystery to cancel the rinnegan buffs so I could burst Jigokudo down quickly in round 2.
The enemy team lost 6k power from 81 -> 82

That's how all the plot instances work. They scale enemy power based on your character level down to a certain minimum power. That's why stuff like the blue circle in Scout Deadwood Forest at the first level you can do it is something absurd like 50k, but eventually as you level up it goes down to 19k. It's also why all the posts of people saying "I beat it at ### power" aren't all that helpful without also including their level.

Some of the scaling is odd though. For a lot of the earlier instances, the blue circles are weak enough that you don't need to come back to them later. And as mentioned, the initial level 80 blue circles aren't very hard, especially compared to Final Trial.

35K might be a bit hard at level 83. IDK how viable it is, but with that team maybe swapping in Cee for Mabui might be useful? He'll be able to blind all but 2 of them on round 2 and kill all their buffs for round 3, and his passive should give you enough chakra to launch your mysteries after he blinds. I know canceling the Rinnegan buffs off a bunch of them with wind main's 4th mystery helped me a lot (although that was on the first turn so it had a big impact).

EDIT: Oh, I forgot Ningendo will reflect one blind...as long as he doesn't save Gakido or Jigokudo it's probably fine though

This post was last edited by cra***@gmail.com at 2017-5-18 12:22