Could you give me one piece of advice then?

My current team has an amazing combo, 9 hits from each starting point, but the problem is... I can't start a combo very often, Sasuke needs 2 turns to launch his, and it leaves only main. Is there any valuable substitute for Sasuke, with 3 chases? Or maybe a good substitue for Kabuto, with more than 1 chase? Sth that won't kill my combo, but will allow me to trigger it more than once ;/

This team sometimes works, sometimes is a curse for me, so I want to do some changes, but at the same time , expying Ino and Tayuya from 2* is a bother xD. SO, basically, what I'm asking, is what can I really do ninjawise to improve this ;/ I want to focus on Elite Instances, but of I change my team it will be a bit difficult to do so.

And, concerning the main topic, thank you all for your help, you're awesome ^_^

That's odd, i'm f2p lvl 63 with 16411 power. You have a lot of stuffs better than mine :o

You might have SA/Mood/Group Skills higher than me. OR just stars XD

Fully level your group skills, specially the first five. They do lots of power gains. Group Skills > Strengthen because strengthening costs a lot but gives you only few. Do it after you have fully leveled your group skills. How is your character items? the one you get at the Team instance? Find something purple that has an additional stats of 4. Also, make all your magatamas level 3 or higher. Level 72 with 17k power is pretty weak bro.
Your refines should be level 4 or higher.
This post was last edited by Sanamabits at 2016-9-23 16:14

Im lvl 52 with 11k power,and your acc is not so normal. When you started play? I about 16 days ago and i Did many refiniture lvl 3-4(all with coupons) and some to lvl 5(guild coins). Group skill lvl 18~19 and magatamas near to full lvl 3. Thats not normal for a lvl 73.

This is my suggestion:

Stop upgrade your livel.
First upgrade all your strengthen to max.
Do every day ninja exam and sweep it.
Upgrade all equips to anbu or Kage(kage now is a good idea)
Use stamina to improve ur ninja's star to lvl 5 if you can get it in elite instance
Win all kurama's fight and get coupons. Use your coupons for low refiniture and up all to lvl 4. After use all your coupons for common threads and upgrade your battle armor to lvl 19 and rank 3.

U can upgrade your livel only with daily mission,so you c*e all stamina for cards/equips and other :) I do about 1 livel every day

I started playing on either 20th or 21st of July

I have items all at purple, with 3 slots empty and one not unlocked.

All eq is Anbu or higher (kage)

And now... I can't do Kurama/GNW, because of my time zone and schedule. Those events take place at about 2 AM, and I need to sleep sometimes ;/

Wouldn't focusing on getting kage be more important than stars? I need only Kabuto at 4* to have the full 4* team

I can't stop upgrading my level, Daily Missions require me to do stuff that raises power :/ Am I supposed to turn down free exp? And group coins, which I'm spending for Kakuzu. And cultivation runes too... that is too much to turn down for me...

Strenghtening at my lvl costs almost 200k each... that's not very realistic idea...

Refining is just too expensive, I have high blessing values, and still not getting a lvl up on my items

Getting coupons for me is limited to Wishing tree

The amount of hits is nice, but Tobi, for example, can crit 4k damage off his chase alone, being only 1 hit. Sometimes, quality is better than quantity. The lineup I'm working towards consists of Kakuzu, Tobi, and Hidan (I'd prefer Konan though). Three ninjas that are easily obtained, and can be 4-star through time. You have multiple threats. Tobi himself is really strong right now, and hard to control as he dodges. If they focus Hidan, he will just revive. They will most likely try to focus Kakuzu, which then you will know what they will try to do and can formulate counter-strategies. (There are endless possiblities on the lineups you can create with the ninjas currently available, Shikamaru can catch a lot of people off-guard!) At the end of the day, I can only suggest things that fit with my playstyle and preference. It's best if you find what you like the most (control, dps, etc) and try to come up with lineups around that. The lineup above has no control, so it may falter against some lineups.

Don't listen to people that want you to stop leveling. Do NOT strengthen your equipment to max as it consumes way too much coins and 300k coins is equal to 100 contribution, which when spent on group skills, benefits ALL ninjas, not just the 1 holding the piece of equipment. Strengthen once you cap your group skills.

Well, with my equipment at lvl 50, I want to strenghten it up at least a little bit xD.

The amount of combo is the only way I can judge a team, since I do not know base stats of any of the characters.

I like combos the most tbh, so Chikamatsu Chiyo and Tendo Pain are in my dreams :v

Getting those Akatsuki ninjas already is taking me over a month, and 2/3 are not even halfway done :/ Getting their stars up will be a nightmare xDD

Shikamaru is cool, but he isn't too bulky... He dies quickly, the same as Ino.

Survivability and combo is my kind of play, it seems. xD

Oh wow you're are REALLY behind, definitely work on getting it up bit by bit. Please don't think view teams like that, or you may find your team to be extremely disappointing in practice (Trust me, Ten Puppet Chiyo is underwhelming in normal fights). If you want to be efficient, you can be like me, gather up the fragments, but wait until you draw them from the Seal Treasure. This will save you 60 fragments towards 4-Star.

However, since you're really determined to have survivability and combos, I recommend you switch into an Earth main. This way you have a tank, and can run higher-combos without worry, as the Earth main also shields ninjas. However, the road you want to walk is going to require either the Pain ninjas or other pay-to-obtain ninjas (at least for now, they will be easier to obtain later on).

Well... there are some problems with that :/

1. I LOVE the design of Fire Main, the other ones are a bit meh to me... It would hurt a lot to switch it :/
2. I wanted to have a control team, with Tayuya, Ino, Kabuto... but... it is baaad.... no damage, poor control, short life :/ this discouraged me from control since only Hinata is a bulky controler
3. I'm also very impatient. I would have a lot more ninjas now, if I had saved my seal scrolls, but I simply can't :/
4. I'm unable to get paid ninjas.
5. I now feel like a total noob when it comes to teambuilding :v I dunno what is good and bad anymore xDD
6. Halp meh... I'm lost xD

Getting as far as you are and still being a free player is some hard work and dedication! Nice job man!

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You CAN have a control team, with Fire main, Itachi, Ino, and then add a high damage character like Tobi or Kakuzu. There are unlimited possiblities on how you could control (Immobile, sleep, chaos, and acupuncture). There are lots of ninjas that do any of these and adding 1 of them in addition to your main is already great control. Then, you can have 2 damage dealing ninjas.

Impatience will lead to a lot of frustration, especially if you're not p2w. It's going to come down to trial and error to find the lineups that you like and work well. Try working towards a Tobi team, if you don't want to use GNW Neji and Kakashi, try Tobi, Sasuke, Hinata.

Thanks for that, although I'm slowly getting fed up with Sasuke. His 2 round mystery is the most annoying * ever.

And as far as I know, Demon Fox is not a good choice of summon for this team.

Will try though, thanks

I'm still trying to find out the screenshot for the team I beat 80 exam with. Once I do, I'll let you know.