Hey guys! A lot of people have told me that they didn’t really know how to deal with Ranked Battles and just gave up and stopped doing them. I figured I would show how I set up my teams to counter other teams and rank up. These teams are NOT perfect but they show some good counter strategies. Post your teams here if you need help! The Community would be more than happy to help you. If you think you've got some good teams, go ahead and post it here so everyone can see!

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Counter Strategy Endurance:

When you first take a look at Rias’s team, you’ll see that her team has a lot of area damage for round 2.

7 out of the 12 ninjas can deal heavy mystery damage

3 others can deal area damage with their chase attack

The rest heal/revive, remove debuffs, or control.

What this team is missing, however is buffs. The only buff that Rias has for the field are Konan’s 40% nin/attack and some shields as well as Susanoo Kakashi’s no-dodge buff.

You can make a complicated strategy to deal with this, but a simpler way to do it is to increase your defence so much that the constant area attacks have little effect.

Top Team: To deal with high ninjutsu area attacks, my top team has Chunin Shikamaru which increases def/res by 100% for Hidden ninjas. He protects well against front attacks with this buff. He c*so be the dummy target of control abilities, or get enough chakra left to Yagura and Edo Deidara. Tobirama also increases 30% attack to the whole field, which is good for the rest of the ninjas in the field since most of them use a lot of taijutsu.

Middle Team:

You can see in the middle that Jigukodo can be attacked in a straight line and he’s working with Tsunade as a double healer team. He also gets 60% defence.. but he needs to be killed quickly because he can revive other ninjas. The Shisui, Itachi, Lightning main trio is placed to combo and kill him quickly with lots of damage and ignition.

Gaara is there to provide extra shields for the entire field to defend against heavy damage in round 2 and to also block Roshi from starting a combo with Edo Deidara with Super Armour.

Lightning main can run Root which gives 100% extra resistance and makes the constant barrage of ninjutsu attacks from Rias’s ninjas useless on this team. The Uchiha also get 100% more defence and resistance from Shikamaru and 30% critical hit rate.

Bottom Team:

Position 1 Jonin Minato’s mystery can continuously be used every round.. but only if the STANDARD ATTACK HITS. That means you can stop him from using it every round by blocking his standard attack with Konan!

Mangetsu allows the entire team on the bottom to dodge some of the attacks and gives yagura a dodge on top so that the chakra generation isn’t broken.

To deal with healers, Kushimaru and Jinpachi’s mystery deals a lot of ignition and immobilization, and Kushi can deal with the sharks on the bottom with extra standard attacks.

Counter Strategy Initiative:

Having better initiative means that you can control or deal damage in position 1 and stop part of the other team’s attacks or defense. You can see there that Takafumi has Edo Minato and Six Paths Naruto to interrupt everything.

Luckily I have better initiative and so my Area Attack or Control Ninjas are all in position 1, and I can deal huge damage while keeping myself safe.

If you have lower initiative, use ninjas that can’t be interrupted like Mifune. Or you could generate chakra over time with a passive ability like Cee, Kurenai, Samui, or Mabui.

Top Team:

Once again there’s a lot of ninjutsu damage coming from the other team. This means root and shields from Gaara and lighting main is very useful. Takafumi has also left his Shisui vulnerable with only shields, which means My Shisui has the potential to kill off or deal heavy damage to his Shisui in round 1 and save myself from his mystery in round 2.

Middle Team:

One thing to note is that Edo Hiruzen is just a sitting duck there, even with shields. We could just blitz him ORR.. copy him and get a huge ninjutsu and attack buff to my field ninjas with Yagura!

Edo Deidara is our damage dealer, so we want to keep him safe. The bottom of the team is a safe spot because any combo that Edo Minato starts will either be blocked by Chunin Shikamaru(who has 100%def/resistance increase), or on a random ninja when Minato uses his mystery. If he does die however, Tobirama’s 60 chakra mystery also hits 12 ninjas and does a good amount of damage.

Bottom Team:

The bottom team is full of support ninjas with two rows of ninjas that don’t have much defence. That means Kushimaru is going to have a lot of fun poking holes through those guys every round. On top of that, his control mystery would be strong and almost every standard attack will be dodged/blocked in that team. Any blitz team would also do well here. After killing everyone off in the bottom, that team can then help attack the ninjas in the middle and overwhelm the entire field.

Counter Strategy Zero Buff:

Against a Han, Summit Madara, Edo Yugito, or ninjas that remove all buffs, there are several approaches.

One is to use ninjas that have their own passive buffs. This includes ninjas like Jinpachi, who has higher defence/resistance with technique points instead of buffs. Summer Hinata, who increases defence and resistance based on male members on the team. Roshi, who increases his damage and defence over time.

Another is to use immune to status ninjas or super armour while dealing lots of debuffs and combo attacks yourself. Red-Hot Kushina is probably one of the best, if not the best in this kind of a fight. But you c*so use other Jinchurikii or someone like Normal Madara.

Top Team:

The top team is set up to rebuff and deal lots of area damage after Han’s mystery. Torune poisons a ton of people with round 1 mystery while draining some of their chakra. Yagura copies Iruka, who buffs the entire team’s damage and provides shields to poisonous clones. Hiruzen is a good area damage dealer and Summer Hinata’s defensive buffs can’t be removed. Hinata’s mystery is also good for some area damage and acupuncture at low chakra cost.

Middle Team:

Konan is able to block 2 standard attacks and Roshi increases his damage and defence with each attack. Even though Konan’s buffs can’t be activated, her dodges and resistance from Suit Sai makes her very hard to kill. Jigukudo also heals and maintains the team, making the entire team hard to kill.

Having no buffs also means lots of ninjas won’t have immunity, which is perfect for Sai’s lions to immobilize random enemy ninjas.

Bottom Team:

As you can see, Shadow’s team has a Fu, which is one of the most annoying pests to fight against with no immunity. I also put a Fu to randomly put people to sleep. In round 1, She’s capable of putting up to 5 ninjas to sleep if you let her use her mystery!

Asides from her, the Edo Deidara and Jinpachi combination causes ignition to everyone around them. With Torune dealing area poison and Deidara/Jinpachi dealing ignitions, any non-immune ninjas on their team will be dealt quite some damage every turn.

I hope you guys enjoyed this brief strategy talk. Come and post your thoughts below or share your own strategies! Go ahead and post if you need help as well. The community would love to help solve your problem.