Hey guys !

Let's talk about Substats/Secondary Stats a bit, I'm referring to these:

I'll dwell into these 3 topics.

Are they important?

First of, they are extremely important.

Even more important that the primary stats themselves in most of cases which is why a lot of players prioritize focusing on Refines, Cave Keys rather than focusing on Magatamas, Tactics.

Which doesn't mean that you should neglect primary stats but it does mean that you should focus on the secondary ones as much as you can.

Overall you can consider the Intiative, Critical and Injury most important stats out of all 5 (Control can be highly useful also in some scenarios, I'll explain more about it below)

Why do people stack position 1 ninjas so much? It's mostly due to these secondary stats especially critical/injury

The difference in critical/injury with your position 1 ninja vs your enemy ninjas can be huge and the higher the difference of stats is the higher your critical chance and critical damage shall be but we'll talk more about this in the next category.

What do they do?

Initiative = if your ninja has higher initiative than your enemy same position(move) ninja then your ninja will go first (I am saying this because you gotta know the meaning of positions in team, if your Pos2 ninja has 10000 initiative it will still go after enemy Pos1 ninja who has 5000 initiative)

Initiative is very tricky but most of the time you will benefit from being faster than your enemy (makes for interrupting, immobiling , chaosing your enemy and dealing damage first)

Your auto-barrier depends on your entire team initiative (so pos1+pos2+pos3+pos4 initiative = overall initiative which is compared vs your enemy and who has higher overall initiative will win the barrier)

There is also an interesting rule that your Position 2 ninja will be faster than your/enemies Position 1 if it has 10000 MORE initiative (example: Position 2= 15000 , Position 1= 4999 , Pos2 goes before Pos1)

(This rule also applies for Pos3>Pos2 and Pos4>Pos3, the rule for Pos3>Pos1 = 20000 more initiative but that is impossible for us to achieve)

Critical = Increases %chance of Critical, decreases the %chances of receiving a critical from your enemy (this all depends on your own ninja critical vs your enemy ninja critical)

This stats is very important for all ninjas also, especially for your main damage dealer which is mostly Pos1 ninja as it will make him crit much more often and we all know critical damage is much higher than normal one.

Critical damage has nothing to do with "Critical" stats, it depends on Injury which we will talk about next!

Injury = Increases CRITICAL DAMAGE, decreases the critical damage taken from your enemy. (same as critical also depends on your ninja injury vs enemy ninja injury)

You see the massive criticals a higher power can deal to you ? Especially if they have a very stacked Position 1 ninja means they have very high Injury stats.

Injury helps with damage a lot, especially considering that enemy back row ninjas mostly have low injuries therefore you can do massive critical damage to them.

Some testing with Injury by people turns out that "Every 100 injury difference vs your enemy is 1% more critical damage" (Not official info)

However based on this info we can say that "If you have 10000 injury on a ninja vs 5000 enemy injury you will do 50% more critical damage than you're supposed to" (which are quite high numbers actually taking into account that the 50% is calculated at the end of damage formula making it a big difference)

Combo = Increases chances of combo, decreases chances of receiving a combo (This refers mostly to standard attacks, sadly this stats is useless when it comes to mysteries and the "must combo" standard attack)

This stats personally I find the one that you can neglect the most except in some cases (for example: Jonin Minato, Kurama Naruto = ninjas who depend a lot on their standard attack causing a combo due to cooldown reduction so it can be very useful for them)

Overall it doesn't have many uses as Critical/Injury do which is why the stats doesn't have as much significance.

Control = Increases %chance of Controlling, decreases %chance of getting controlled (Refers to debuffs such as Immobile, Chaos, Sleep, Acupuncture)

This stats can be extremely useful if you don't have a healer/debuff remover in a team and you are not immune (Example: Classic Lightning Main blitz team)

Also can be extremely useful for helping you control (Example: using Masked Man / Susano Itachi this stat is a must)

Negative side: useless on some ninjas (Example: Roshi, Utakata, 6 Tails Naruto) (There is new Kushina now to immobile them but they regain immunity in round 2 anyway so control can only reduce small chance of them being immobile if versus Kushina)

By player info the rule for this stat is "Every 1000 control stat difference = 10%"

Which means if your ninja has 15000 and your enemy 4999 it will be practically impossible for him to control you.

How to improve them?

Pretty much any power resource is improving them:

-Refines (All stat - only 1 ninja)

-Purify (All stat - only 1 ninja)

-8 Gates (All stat - only 1 ninja)

-Ninja Tools (All except Initiative - all ninjas)

-Mount Myoboku Cultivation (All stats - all ninjas)

-Summon Cultivation (All stats - all ninjas)

-Battle Armor Rank (All stats - all ninjas)

-Clothings (All ninjas)

-Treasured Tools (only 3 Secondary Stats - 1 ninja)

-Charms (Depends on Cave Runes, All stat - 1 ninja)

-Cave Runes (All stat - 1 ninja)

-Bond Home system (All stats - all ninja)

Out of all these, if you want to focus primarily on improving position 1 ninja I'd highly recommend to upgrade Cave Runes/ Charm / Refine / Purify / Treasure Tool.