Quite a lot of thoughts on this thread, but yeah for your encouragement, there's always going to be some like that. I've seen the case of a pretend-F2P (secret spender? rhymes with secret Santa or sacred Panda lols), which I think is even sadder. Player does not get any medal to be on the boards like an F2P, but secretly spends some amounts at non-crowded times. Maybe that player's trying to be the champion for all F2Ps or something, but I think that it doesn't help the server culture to compete in power/ranking whatever.

As for Sage, I'm just mid tier... 70ish-k BP, and in Sage I just basically troll most of the time (WM-Sakura-JMin-Roshi/Obito). I can't kill fast, but I'll hold/stall people for quite a while. I'd like to think that I've bought my team time to stack the kills (LA people like Memo, Umezawa, Flawless). I might not break a heavy hitter's streak, but I sure can make your next kill come a lot later. I confess I have a slightly perverse joy in holding the heavy hitters for 5-6 rounds (or even more at times) by dodge/heals. As a mid-tier guy, there isn't some golden team that would score you heaps of streaks all the time. There's always a counter-formation/team somewhere. Well you just need to see what you're in sage for.

Edit: Secret Spender/Secret Santa/Sacred Panda? lols.