He's ok in tank/support role.
His golem is mainly for tanking and good against those ninjas who sweep front row only, i.e. chojuro, danzo, wb asuma etc, specializes in ranked battle.

if you set your ninjas in second row those ninjas can't get through until his golem breaks.

That's an exception. I said his golem is good against "sweep" front row only ninjas as mentioned above.