NTBSS Top Secret Training Set - Base Game Characters (DLC)

I'll be straight with you: reviewing a convenience DLC is less about the content itself and more about whether the grind it skips is actually worth skipping. In Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker, your custom avatar learns abilities by training under master characters from the Naruto roster. Reaching Training Rank 5 with each one unlocks their Ninjutsu, Secret Techniques, and associated items for your build. That process takes real time across multiple characters, and this pack bypasses all of it for the full base game roster of 20 masters. The roster here is substantial. You get the marquee names, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Itachi, alongside more niche picks like Konan, Kabuto, and Deidara. For players who care about build variety, that breadth matters. Shinobi Striker's avatar system lives or dies on mixing and matching abilities across the four combat roles, and locking the best Ninjutsu behind 20 separate grind tracks is a genuine friction point. The pack collapses that friction into a single purchase. There are real caveats, though. The DLC does not raise your actual Training Rank with any master, so trophies and achievements tied to reaching Rank 5 through normal play remain untouched. It also only unlocks abilities for DLC characters you have already paid for separately. If your Shinobi Striker collection is thin, this pack's value shrinks accordingly. The Steam reception for similar Training Set DLC across other season packs skews negative, with the community consistently pushing back on what they see as paid shortcuts to content that exists in the base progression loop. Who should consider it: players who are already deep into Shinobi Striker's 4v4 online modes, whether Flag Battles, Barrier Battles, or Base Battles, and want to experiment with builds from masters like Pain or Deidara without investing the hours. If you are still in the early Genin-to-Jonin story climb or you are a casual fan who plays a few matches a month, the grind this replaces is light enough that the pack is hard to justify. Bottom line: this is a time-saver for committed Shinobi Striker players who know exactly which Ninjutsu they want and do not want to wait. For anyone else it is a solution to a problem they do not have yet. Alex, Scout Team