Dont worry as a decent Naruto gamer im not annoyed because those setups are an absolute joke. Nobody from those screenshots has a proper team. Last dude is half decent that is if he has proper skill trials but my guy just had to use rin over proper madara supports so unlikely

People just slam rin, hashirama + something (mostly 6p Naruto) and after a bit of grind get 6p rank but its nothing new, no rocket science here. Strong players eat those for breakfast ...

PS nice triple shichiseiken, real help in this topic right here - you need 4ropes or 3 ropes and 1 gourd for Control ninja in your team as end game ninja tools

Sigh... again setups above are just nothing special and that's all I wanted to say. Not to mention that Hashirama + Rin combo is something that every f2p player uses so you didnt discover anything to share.

Tons of people queue auto battle after all, with the winning streak bonuses and no losing streak penalties as long as you are barely around 50% win rate you still are climbing so people just press auto do quick auto clicker / macro -> go afk for some time and 6p rank done easly. Its pretty fast even if you are using something like SS Konan - AC Kakuzu - Male chikushodo / GNW Madara / Obito so f2p can get some free wins with pure control setups

Everybody knows that setups like Rin - Hashirama - Naruto or Rin (or base hashi) - Summer Kurenai - Kakashi etc are best f2p players options but for real any good team like Naruto - base hiruzen - AC Kakuzu - impetus wind main or ETR Madara - Guy/Mabui - sasori / nagato and obviously highest tiers teams with Minato + Ashura or 6p Pain / Obito / 10T Madara etc as long as player has above 50IQ and is not afk auto farming easly wins vs f2p players. (that's obvious though)

So you get me correctly, is your setup viable team to farm arena? -> Yes, it is.

Is this something new that people didn't know about before? -> No, it is not.

Are those setups truly able to compete vs high end meta? -> No, they can't (unless other player is braindead or afk auto farming)

For new servers that 2nd team (I dont like first one that much) is probably best option but old f2p players are actually not that weak. Obviously they have no chance in regular fights but there are tons of f2p players with good teams in arena where stats are not as important (initiative still is a key tho...). Ninjas like full BT ETR Madara, Naruto's, Kisame with proper suigetsu-kakuzu team etc are easly achieved by f2p players these days.

Few years ago we had like half of the coupons you could get per month, no moon/sun coins and shop so you had to completly choose between getting a ninja or power and there were no events such as fireworks, fuku deals, myoboku trials etc so trust me. Old timers survived those dark times and we can counter f2p setups pretty easly but there is a ton of absolute potato whales and other bad players so I can see them being controlled for 3 rounds straight up and then lose.

Back in a day we were using similar teams such as Swimsuit Temari - Susanno Itachi - Masked Man - Wind main impetus pre skill trials era etc so control teams were always good idea in general. If you dont have strong pos1 ninja yourself just cheese your way up with control or Zetsu

In conclusion good talk before DB servers are open. I recommend his 2nd team for sure for new players but vs really good older players dont expect high win rate. (that team is also not that easy to use, you have to understand how to use those controls properly otherwise it will be very bad)