It will require too much time and resources for it to make happen and I think our team would likely not do that. It hurts me to say but they will * to the original, nothing new. Independent team is just a name.

Orochimaru works fine with agk actually if has the bond skill and is full sb. (has the perfect chase for her and is boosted by her + kills with mystery any ninja that she left alive and if the barrier is up her and the other characters you use would be actually way way harder to kill). It fully counters edo hiruzen teams for example if you own overall initiative (since hiruzen with no barrier buff would actually hit low with standard and mystery on somebody with a 60% boost to both def and res)

That's all is cool of course and maybe works, but I still don't see any single Orochimaru in a top tier teams. Even AGK, who, as you said, works fine with him, will better take Sai / Sasuke suit or someone else for support.

We can think a lot of time about the teams where he would work well. But the fact is very simple - if he would be good and if he would had no alternatives - people would use him.
But they don't.

I've been here a year & looked into the game much further- there never has & never will be changes made to the core experience because they're unable to do it, that's what it seems to boil down to- they get their "Package" and are able to take what they want from it & implement them but they can't add or drastically change what's inside the package.

I am Also thinking about using Orochimaru and Gaara in Ranked battle, Orochimaru Barrier increase Defence and Resistance and Gaara gives Sheild base on Gaara's Resistance.

So I think its very helpful specially in ranked battle may somewhere other

in top tier teams none uses even jonin minato bond skill, actually... (if we use a minato is hokage because hokage minato passive boost to resistance is simply too good to counter the common metas with edo hiruzen, agk or itachi susano'o).

the reason why we don't use orochimaru bond skill is simply one: too many way to counter it (kisame samehada, madara, roshi, gaara, a faster overall initiative shisui/darui etc..) for a cost of 25 levels of assists on ninjas that have low % with other commonly used ninjas (that is also the reason why none uses edo roshi).

but in general a 60% boost to res and def that STACKS with hokage minato buff is something quite huge in ranked/gnw/bonds.

I see more Bond Minato than Hokage Minato....ever since I got Bond Minato, my Hokage Minato been on the bench, because Bond Minato is just that good.

I was talking about top tier teams.

In the 100-160k range of power Jonin minato with bond skill is quite common, but i wasn't talking about that range, i was talking about the 170k+ tier.

I never faced once in SWB, Matsuri or Decisive bonds a person with comparable or higher power than me (185k) that actually uses him, but i saw a ton of hokage because hokage is simply the best filler possible in AGK, kisame samehada, wind main meta. It's useless to bring a jonin minato if the enemy edo hiruzen or agk mystery in round 1 flat out nuke him.

^ I agree with this.

Bond Minato is too risky to play in high power.

Unless there are like massive power gap.

I had my bond Minato complete a week when it's available. I could count how many times I actually used him.

I was like nahhhh back to my beloved Konan.