They are not going to change talents. They made people max out their water teams(5 star tsunade+5star sailor) now they put a counter so people will spend on new meta. Making new talents is a coding nightmare and costly.

There are no end game ninjas , meta change from time to time. Have to adapt.

In a 1v1, SB and AF are evenly matched. Scarlet blaze got ignite,shield mirror while azura fang got remove debuffs+ heal+ poison.

i'm wondering how bad you guys must be as players to think water is weak. in the 100k bracket a full stack of water poison will kill a ninja in 2 rounds, add in mystery dmg and chases and you might kill a ninja per round.

i don't know why you want to limit yourself to 3 water ninja vs 3 fire ninjas, if you are using the water dmg buff then you realy dont know how to play water. if the mirror is giving your problems then bring your own, SB kurenai has mirror passive, and her myst has cleanse heal and shield, her standard/chase also has chaos . so you can relfect the chaos back and cleanse another ninja.

sailor sakura is a staple for water mains still, self healing on hit keeps her alive longer than most ninjas so she can tank all the dmg the enemy can deal if they dont ignite her, which anbu itachi, shisui, and fire main wont do when chasing a mystery.

and why the hell are you even talking about skewer? its time has passed, use shark bombs every round to chaos control the enemy team, it has a high crit chase so combined with nuerotoxin you can cc everything without a dodge/immunity, so long as they arent a whale with susano itachi you will win cause they cant move.

that still leaves space for 1 more ninja, add a gakido for bonus cleansing and shields and you can stop even the susano itachi from doing * as r1 u have 2 cleanse mysteries and 2 heal standards, which means as long as ur main is faster in m1 you can keep the enemy cc locked and they can't clear your chaos, the combo would be: shark bomb creates kd, main chases to high float, monkey king to kd, kurenai chases to repulse, sakura chases to high float, monkey king to kd, gakido. mirror will bounce 1 chaos so an enemy who was crit might stay free but even if ur shark bomb doesnt crit anything you will be able to chase and force a crit which then bounces to a random enemy because of dual reflects, then kurenai chase causes chaos as well, so by focusing his main you prevent him from using his mystery or generating chakra. if his main cant move then any other chaos you deal will *, even if he uses shisui r2 then kurenai will have the chakra to cleanse, so regardless of which cleanse you may have needed to pop r1(most likely hers because gakido has a team cleanse b4 each action so would cleanse her chaos anyway which means chaosing gakido would be the smart move) you will have the ability to cleanse whoever shisui hits assuming shisui didnt get hit by chaos relfecting anyway.

this team is pure f2p, no ninjas you cant get easily, sakura is the hardest one to get but she is still only 2400 coupons when she is in events. your problem isnt that water is weak, its that you don't know how to build a team to counter the teams you have problems with. fire is the weakest main right now, wind is better than fire purely because of dance, water is by no means weak, you just need to build around her instead of crying for buffs.