You say "definitely the best crypto flavor" as if you knew. But you don't, because no serious system designer cares about rainbow tables. Unix solved this problem in the nineteen seventies. Real system designers care about incremental crackers, of the sort used since the 1980's to harvest thousands of passwords from compromised Unix boxes, of the sort that forced Unix systems in the 1990's to adopt "shadowed" password files.

The solution to that threat, the real threat, is scrypt, bcrypt, or PBKDF2 --- the "adaptive" hashes that can be tuned to trade a marginal increase in defender cost for an untenable increase in attacker cost.