To counter lightning blitz, you only have a few viable options (that doesn't involve throwing the match vs everything else you might meet).
1) Run the wind f2p meta team (SN, KK gaara, Bee; talent 3x134 with dog of hell. X can be any of the standard attacks, depending on your personal taste.) Summons and chases can be changed to less optimal, but still functional ones if you don't have dog of hell, as stated by a post above.
2) Run a black hidan or SSN SSK team. It'll beat lightning blitz at equal power.
3) Run an earth roshi team, and pray the enemy mb is not parked directly opposite of your roshi.
4) Run blitz team yourself and hope your mb has higher init ;P
5)* Run mabui 1010 water team, replace mei with hashi (and stay on water clone) or kimimaro + poison tai. You'll beat lightning blitz at equal power most of the time, but not always.
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Regarding some of the posts above...
- Normal sakura has ZERO viability against lightning blitz. It won't work at all.
- Skewer (water 4th mystery) is not viable. It cannot be used on round 1. You are already (half) dead by the start of round 2.
- Sand dust (wind 4th mystery) is not viable except for specific situations such as spacetime playoffs. Using this mystery is basically throwing the fight against many matchups that you'd otherwise win through dance of impetus.
- Hinata is not meta viable for single teams at higher power. She works as a stopgap at lower power/levels only.
- Immortal teams are HORRIBLE vs lightning blitz. Lightning blitz is the hard counter to immortal teams.. do not try to fight lightning blitz with healspams.
This post was last edited by IamAscrub at 2017-7-11 06:16