Okay, I have been doing some research on the Triads in Shadowrun and these guys are F***ing fierce. I mean, they make their own milspec gear and can smuggle it into a war zone with little effort. They are almost impossible to stamp out and tend to have numbers over most syndicates.
As I see it their strengths are numbers, good gear and magic. I don't see any major mention of extensive cyberware in Vice, so presumably they don't regularly have near-cyberpsycho muscle on the field.
Now as I understand it they have a long-standing feud of truly epic proportions with the Yakuza.
To the best of my knowledge the Yakuza have a primary strength of highly elite enforcers, excellent cyberware, and friendship with a little organization known as MCT. However, unlike the Triads i believe that the Yaks are still very much prejudiced against both women and metahumans, and I'm not sure on how they feel about magic but I'm not imagining their traditionalists are going to be that approving.
Now the reason I'm bringing this up is that our game has recently had a large power vacuum come into play and there's a real chance that the Triads and Yaks are going to go to war over who gets to fill it. I want to double check my understanding of both sides before that happens.