Problem with that passive is they lose Bloodthirsty, the one and only reason that people fear Lightning.

Your damage as a fire main should easily exceed anything Lightning can manage, especially with those lengthy combos of doom with Tobi whose chase does absurd amounts of damage (more than most jutsu).

The only thing Lightning mains are good at is Survival. Everywhere else your Fire main is superior.

It comes down to Mirrors.

Lightning has Kurenai for that. Sometimes Kakashi Beheading Sword or Ningendo.

Mirrors and sleep autos defeat much of the strategy that the game surrounds itself with, preventing actions that your team might deem necessary to be offensive. The result is that Mirrors are in virtually every team at this point and the ones that aren't using them either don't care about conditions at all or have ludicrously high Initiative and enough stats to one-combo any threat standing before them.

That acupuncture passive is countered by another Fire passive and sacrifices a combo starter or extra attacks. You're already nerfing Lightning's damage by taking the condition immune passive, which only applies to THREE ninja on your team and only if they are swordsmen, yet you want to nerf their damage even further by removing a possible combo. Sure they can attack the lowest health still... once.

This is part of the reason I stress that Lightning becomes less offensive at higher levels and more of a control-style assassin that spams acupuncture or paralysis. The issue with this of course being that it's an Attack-based aggressor with weak defense against the majority of chases and jutsu in the game, not a mirror-guarded cleansing wizard with a 0-cost immobile-causing interrupt and high ninjutsu/resistance. Fire mains can stop you not just from using a jutsu next turn but from attacking at all or using defense passives.

The amount of damage a Fire main can deal on Kyuubi with a two use jutsu and the power of ninjutsu scaling is obscene. Lightning can muster up similar strengths with Lightning Armor but it costs you more time in the process. That dragon jutsu is just a single use 30k damage that can be repeated on the following turn, quick and painless with a 10-hit combo trigger on top of it all. It really isn't a difficult call to say stay away from Midnight unless you favor the playstyle over the power (or like me you are just waiting for the updated passives that fix everything).
This post was last edited by Kyutaru at 2016-9-14 06:49