Disappointed at under powered puppet masters.

[Xephier]

I personally think the main thing wrong with the puppet masters in this game is 2 things, the inability to use puppets to attack the player from behind (if your opponent gets past your puppets, you're semi-defenseless). As well Sasori instantly loses his biggest unique advantage in this game, Hiruko. If he started out housed in his Hiruko puppet the way he does in the show then that would negate the handicap that the other puppet-masters have of being unable to attack from behind.

To me it just feels that the puppet masters should be the overpowered class-type in this game in the way that certain other weird characters in other fighting games are(Voldo from soul caliber comes to mind as well as Yoshimizu from the Tekken series). Like hard to play but if played right they should dominate.

[ZEbani]

most used sasori techique is dash-grab.
when the opponent dashes, call Pain so the opponent cant touch you then dash and grab again .

[otter with da crocs]

Ive seen some amazing puppet masters infact I that there are pretty much no underpowered character. There are tierlists, some are S+ Some are A+

Like Mifune against Zabusa. Mifune is better straight up and is faster and is all around great, considered an S+ Tier character. Zabusa is considered an A character at best, but has a better Air game than Mifune and has better zoning potential than Mifune.

Pick supports to compliment a puppet master. Pain and Jugo comes to mind.

This game is not all about who gets the highest amount of damage in and continously attacking someones defense or tryna attack them from behind. This game is all about Substitions, every part of it revolves around that. Practice your dodging game to dodge most jutsus so you dont have to waste Subs, tehn use your jutsus to bait subs. If he doesnt fall for a simple jutsu, use a support with a jutsu for double pressure that'll make him waste atleast 1 Sub and if he does that you got a Sub advantage. You can use that to pressure him with Chakra dashes and continous attacks. If he loses all jutsus and you get ahit on him, land a massive combo with your supports for 1+ Bar of damage.

[Xephier]

Ya but puppet masters don't really get an advantage with their puppets, they actually have a handicap. Any other player can attack from behind and it makes no sense that the puppets can't. If they could it would make them a more formidable class type on their own. If I need another character to jump in and help me then I'd be better off playing another class-type that does better on their own then have good support for them and a stronger team overall.

I hope that they fix that for puppet masters in ninja storm 5 as well as improve further by other little things like giving young naruto access to chief frog and adding stage damage considering the character's ultimates take chunks out of the planet and yet do no damage to the stage somehow.

[Kage Level]

You've clearly never fought me. I do 80% of damage from sneaky rear puppet attacks. I'm top tier.