Server: s1369
IGN: 藍馬雪鳥
UID: 300004908471724

Happy Together in Theme

- As there are two orochimarus (1 trailtor, 1 sannin), this team is obviously only useful in one of the theme arena modes: the one that allows you to use multiple versions of the same ninja.

- It’s because they both have the passive: when they die, kill one of the sound ninjas in your time to revive himself.

- So when only one of the orochimaru dies, it causes a very funny situation that he kills the other orochimaru to revive himself, then that orochimaru revives by killing this orochimaru, then this orochimaru kill that orochimaru again…

- Fire main functions to provide some necessary control to the opponent, and kabuto revives one of the orochimaru on the next round, as there’s an upper limit of his reviving passive, being 5 times/round.

- Of course, this team doesn’t win many battles, but it’s highly entertaining and sometimes even the opponent laughs along with you.

Training Ground Trap

- It’s obvious that it’s a team with the attempt to survive: rin for reducing mystery damage, water main for healing, kushina def/res, tsunade p1 for gnw orochimarus

- It’s arguably better to put tsunade at p2 and kushina p1 to increase the survivability of kushina until after round 3, but if the team is too stacked, round 3 sosp mystery aiming at tsunade can kill kushina as well... but not vice versa, so it depends on different people

- An interesting advantage of putting tsunade p1 is that if you have initiative, sometimes you can revive team (which includes rin) at the start of round before the enemy p1 mystery, then it’s 90% damage reduction again

- It’s not a team for winning battles, rather it’s a team to strike fear into your opponent’s hearts so that they don’t dare to click you even with a power gap; and for bragging to your friends about surviving longer against the cluster rank 1 than most – as their shisui went poke poke poke, then poke poke poke…

- Or course, it wouldn’t work very well if opponent uses certain ninjas that has teleport skills, but whether they bring those ninjas just for you depends on the cluster dynamic (there are also instances when tsunade was yeeted but opponents find themselves unable to kill the kushina…)

- IMPORTANT NOTE: it is highly recommended that if anyone actually brings this team to battle, they shouldn’t click anyone other than the kill count/key npcs, let the fish take the bait themselves so there is no one to blame but themselves, as there’s only a thin line between making funny jokes and being downright toxic

The River Turns Red

- This team was useful in decisive bonds, during an era and environment in which the main opponents are edo hiruzen blitz / shisui koto + anbu itachi (lightning main root) / konan angel + shark (both non bt), (proxy was used cause some ninjas are a bit unavailable at the moment due to certain circ-umstances)

- The ideal teammate would be another water main p1 team with p2 shark, p3 bt kurenai, p4 tsunade young adult, to cover for certain enemies’ mirrors and to provide healing support

- During that time, ninjas with spammable mysteries are quite rare, and water main was one of them, and can provide quite some amount of control and can win with power gap as long as you have initiative and can crit, and the reason of bringing 3 mystery-blocking barriers was to further limit the opponent’s chance to move (madara’s barrier was preferably used in round 1 to clear buffs)

- Konan may be able to deal additional damage, but the main function is to provide high combo for water mains’ high combo chases, which then further increases the chance of critting and controlling, even against opponent units that dodged the initial mystery

- Sure, there are other very useful pvp teams nowadays, with examples being sosp and etr, but this team remains as my favourite for the satisfaction it brings with the utter do-mination over the opponent: there’s nothing they can do, other than helplessly watch themselves slowing getting killed, with the aid of their own ninjas (“the river turns red” is a saying in my native language that refers to an academic report card with all Fs in red colour, but I find it quite fitting for this team as well, as the whole opponent field turns red under chaos, and the emotional impact is quite similar)

- Well, there’s the retreat bu-tton at round 5 :)