so since i'm stuck on 90 exam ... figured i'd share some 86-89 tips for wind!
mostly, i used gnw kankuro (godsend!) naruto and hinata. strongest wind in our server with empress build pretty much just auto'd them lol with her karin-chiyo-hinata team (karin's poison doing most work + her rasengan) but she had more pwr for it. so. i made other solutions.
generally each time you're going to want to switch up your lineup to suit whatever's best. some trial and error.
first one is fire. this one was a pain, since ignite did most of work. tobi is very good for this, and i think i used gnw kankuro, tobi, and hinata for this. they all work together pretty well. your giant rasengan does tai dmg -- take advantage of this for green puppets! let tobi ignite the heck out of that fire puppet, gnw kankuro (also does tai) can help ignite/poison the whole field (seriously, he's godly for these exams) and hinata is shielding you from the attacks but also if you time it right you c*e her to interrupt some of the puppets ults. fire goes first iirc? some flame jutsu ofc. and then the tai puppets with their leg sweeps. use the repulse tiger and your lf-->hf passive so you should get a pretty good combo that ends with hinata acu'ing them. and ofc your rasengan will cause repulse too, i think i had gale fan and blast on too. and lots of lots of shadow clones lol. can't remember lineup totally but if i had to guess it was probably something like:
tobi-x-x
kank-puppet-hinata
main-x-x
then next one. wind! i got stuck on this for a day. ;P the nin puppets will put those * freakin controls on you and i hate it. u can consider bringing impetus into it but. then u just get controlled and you can't even blast them into space in punishment once ur free. honestly i might have used it (don't rly remember) but i think not. anyways that's when i brought naruto in. once again ignite/poison is a godsend for taking down these puppets. always try to do kankuro's ult first so that the poison has longer to stack. !ABSOLUTELY STOP THE WIND PUPPET FROM DOING THEIR ULT! idek why but i found this easily the worst ult. it could destroy my team. i want wind to have move that op, but alas. again, use hinata to acu him, benefit of this is u can start a combo with u or naruto (and even from his standard tai attack to front enemy) that should help. also i may have had my wind enhance on. only downside is against these puppets that extra shield for hinata can help her survive long enough to turn the tide.
generally my advice for all of these -- you can still pull a win even if it's just naruto clone spamming and hanging on until the last puppet drops, but only if they're dripping in so much poison u can just outlast them into dropping (and avoid timeout loss.) so don't be totally discouraged if it's down to that. but if the special puppet isn't buffed then don't bother, reset.
after wind was ... water? yeah same strategy, same team. just line them up where they work best. i liked to line kankuro up so he standards the special puppet, which means he and hinata are normally in front of it, but if you think that's not working just switch it up. tried to take that nin puppet out early i think bc of controls but idk. lot of these exams were done on auto, i just made sure kankuro's ult went off first. water puppet's ult isn't the worst but still try and avoid it.
then lightning. this one annoying just bc they hid the special puppet in the back. >_> inconvenient. they did balance this out by making its ult the weakest. not a big deal. just follow the same protocols, and you should be good.
anyways i hope this helps someone! :victory: