Takamasa Hatakeyama, the family head of the Hatakeyama clan, was a brave general, but the Hatakeyama family itself was disrupted by the Sengoku mood shift, so controlling the vassals was difficult.
また、畠山氏の当主、畠山高政は勇将ではあったが、家中の状況は戦国の風潮があり、家臣団の統制も困難を伴った。