Just acquired him from a collection and I'm on the fence about keeping him. 90% of my collection is team themed and while I do have a couple Hand teams they aren't high on my play list.

Is this piece worth keeping? Is he that awesome? If I keep him I guess I need to buy some ninjas

Love to get some feedback from people who have played him (on Hand teams only though..since that's all I ever play)

Thanks

I saw your message, and didn’t want to leave this unanswered. So with the current modern age Hand teams, the most effective team would be midrange styles. Using mid sized characters with smaller characters. The problem with other play style like swarm team is their lack of transport/mobility, cause a lot of inefficient action consumption just to move piece around.
I’ll be addressing 300 point format as I feel hand lose value at high points in modern age.
His worth keeping if you have Mandarin MP18-105, to be your mainline attacker. And The Advocate WI041, ability to add in hindering terrain, synergizes with Daredevil spawns.
I recommend using 3 hands ninjas.
So the team is slow, and need to be patience with their low movement speed and setting up their zoning. But have mandarin carry out daredevil out so next turn he can creat his first hand ninja, recommend mandarin hide behind his teammates. The Advocate should group with both of them. Next turn Advocate can creat lasting smoke cloud to either position hand ninja, or defensively. You have 10 points left for relics or objects; recommend symbiote, or mirror.
Strength: Mandarin being flexible against more armor rangers such as Iron man/Thor buster, also once your team zero in on a specific fig. Range team that can’t deal with stealth will struggle.
Weakness: Mandarin is very soft once he takes damage, and the low mobility of daredevil and Advocate doesn’t help either. Weak against most charge characters, and stealth busters.
Preety much how midrange Hand teams handle more ambush like team play, need time to creat a Hand ninja, and set up terrain for you to take advantage of. Only attack if you can secure mandarin safety.

BCE...thanks for that.

I think I might get rid of him as that strategy isn't really my way of playing (and I don't have that Mandarin). Maybe I'll try him once but that's it.

Awesome write-up!