[Coda]

I've never messed with PadGuide's team function (I didn't even know it had one ^^; ) -- I use PadHerder for that, but I haven't updated my PadHerder account in a long time because PadListener broke on a PAD update some time around 7.2.0 and I haven't bothered checking to see if it's updated since then.

Nameless Blade Brave, Masamune is a freaking weird monster. I like him better as an Attacker-team sub than a Fire-team leader because he's got beefy stats and two TPAs. As a leader... his active skill doesn't have enough uptime to be able to make effective use of him in most dungeons (even if you somehow managed to farm his skill to max, he still wouldn't be able to benefit from his own leader skill 80% of the time, making him basically a waste of a team slot) and I'd much rather go for a more reliable leader. But as a sub, his stats and his awoken skills are great and his active skill can provide 20% uptime on 1.5xATK as long as you're not overly hurt by him being Fire-type during those rounds (that is, against water-type the time that the attack bonus would be most useful is the time when you wouldn't want to use the skill).

I'm annoyed that there are two monsters named Masamune, because I have Wood Samurai Dragon, Masamune on my wood-dragon team (for the stats) and on my attacker team (for the active skill) and it gets confusing. :P

Orochi and Amaterasu are both pretty good although IMO Orochi is better most of the time. Auto-heal leader skills are very situational in their use. The Attacker-type Amaterasu uvo is probably more useful. Meanwhile, Orochi's active skill is a huge game-changer. (Though with so many bosses putting up debuff shields, it's not as awesome as it used to be.)