I wouldn't even give him that much credit tbh. Just putting him that high already means having him exceed Jiraiya's capabilities.As for the last, he's a Hokage candidate because he's the best they have left. I mean it's either him or Gai the way I see it. Obvious choice there.
You're forgetting another factor though, Oro's body was starting to fail. That's why he left, not because he reached his 100% limit. I'll remind you that very shortly after this he was actually on his deathbed unable to do basically anything such that he was easy prey for Sasuke.Also I don't think his Kusanagi strike was meant to be killing either. 4TK had proven itself tough enough that he had to try something to actually score some points on his own. He says both before the fight and when he decides to withdraw that the entire thing was 'playtime'.Lastly you mention Jiraiya being wounded from trying to put the seal on him, but you'll notice that Oro would have been able to do that very early in the fight if he wanted to since he puts his fist in 4TK's face. This is Oro in a dying body as well. So it's not like he was trying to do anything so drastically different from what Orochimaru was capable of doing.
It's unreasonable to think that Sasuke can surpass Rasenshuriken quite frankly in terms of pure difficulty. It took Naruto 20 years to learn to do it and it's a jutsu that neither Minato nor Jiraiya nor Kakashi was ever able to do.Sasuke's chakra abilities also have NOT been shown to be level with Naruto. Rasengan is spatial manipulation of the highest order and Sasuke cannot do anything comparable. The facts simply do not show him as ever having a learning and execution capability for jutsus that exceeded Naruto's.Whatever Sasuke is likely to come up with in future is more sharingan hax. And even then my point is that his 'that jutsu' will be crushed by the power of Naruto's 'that jutsu'.
Sharingan copying wheel still has limits. Sasuke is limited by what his body can legitimately do. All he will learn is the method through reading the handsigns (one reason why rasengan apparently can't be copied).Sasuke's body simply is not able to do rasenshuriken or something or a similar nature. It's past his limit. He doesn't have the chakra reserves. Think about it this way, Sasuke's chidori limit during chuunin exams was TWO. On the other hand when Naruto was learning rasengan he was spinning chakra whole day and has never been shown to have a limit on how many he can do.PTS we know he has the capacity to do several thousand rasengans AT LEAST. And yet he can do THREE Rasenshurikens. How can Sasuke compare to the power of Naruto's latent Kyuubi chakra?
I'm not trying to push a position, it's been pretty much stated. Kakashi said it himself, Naruto will be the person to create a jutsu higher than S-rank. Then he started teaching him the steps for Rasenshuriken. Rasenshuriken is higher than S-rank. Everything else is S-rank or lower.People are forgetting that three of the most brilliant minds in the Narutoverse, including the proclaimed "Greatest Ninja Konoha ever created", have failed to create this jutsu.
What I'm saying is this, Naruto has demonstrated that he is superior to Sasuke when it comes to learning new jutsu. This is not debatable. Rasengan is a couple weeks? Sasuke doing Chidori against Gaara had everyone marvelling at his new power. Naruto using Rasengan against Kabuto had Orochimaru abandoning his battle with Jiraiya specifically to kill Naruto because the fact that he could learn rasengan showed how dangerous he was.Given this fact, how is Sasuke supposed to have created something in 3 years grater than something that took Naruto 20? It doesn't add up in a mathematical sense. I agree that clone learning was made up on the spot to give Naruto an edge. But it's there. It's no different from harping on about Sharingan, which has had so many abilities pulled out it's ass that Santa might want to consider stocking presents for all the world's children there. Tons of room.
Very plausible. However Naruto has main character hax which is why I'm certain that whatever he uses will be better than what the other guy has. But I don't argue this idea.This is of course assuming that the final battle in the series is Naruto vs Sasuke. If not Naruto will quickly outstrip him in power as the series wears on.
This isn't correct as Jaraiya technically took out not 1 not 2 but 3 BODIES and actually he took out 1 body TWICE so technically you could say he took out 4 bodies or have you forgotten. ONLY because pain has 6 bodies did he get the up on Jaraiya. Thus me saying Kakashi can take out 2 is quite plausible and still below Jaraiya.
I agree that Oro wasn't at 100% however I would not put Naruubi down as to say it was playtime (yes he did say something to that effect) but Oro knew quite well he could have gotten killed and almost did by the... 'K-O-KEN' that Naruubi plant on him (he had to summon 3 gates to defend himself and they all failed as I recall). I also think the Kusenagi WAS intended to kill as Oro was SURPRISED when he realized it did NOT pierce him. As for Oro easily being able to accomplish placing the seal on Naruubi, I agree, but that goes back to the point YOU made about certain match ups NOT being ideal. Sure Oro is prolly faster (this is debatable after seeing Senin mode) but Oro is a freaking snake, he could out manuever Naruubi whereas Jaraiya could not.
You pointed out that ORO is a complete bad@$$ and Sasuke was constantly learning techniques from him, to suggest that sasuke doesn't have at least S-Rank jutsu in his arsenal would be @$$enine :p I agree the Rasenshiruken is NOTHING to be scoffed at, but you yourself said it took 20 years. What do you think Sasuke could do with 20 years and combining S-ranked jutsu?
Sasuke has already shown his body had FAR surpassed most other nin in the naruverse. He SINGLE handedly defeated an akatsuki member whom Kakashi AND Naruto couldn't EVEN capture after he had NO ARMS. That says alot, I do think it was a favourable match up being lightning vs. Earth and all, but still Naruto had a team fighting Kakuza before he stepped in. Its no small feat either, HOWEVER Naruto cannot claim to have singlehandedly taken on an akatsuki member and WON. Chakra capacity is one thing, skill is another. Naruto has chakra to blow thats for sure, but all that power wouldn't do him much good if he can't properly use it. Case in point, Itachi put him in a Genjutsu he couldn't escape and all he used was his FINGER :p sasuke has already been shown to have very good use of Genjutsu as he used against deidara, as it stands Sasuke would wipe the floor with Naruto atm.
Keep in mind its a last resort jutsu that does him more damage than good. Meaning its pretty useless atm. He needs to work on it some more but thats getting sidetracked. It was also mentioned that aside from Kakashi and the 4th being unable to complete it, the reason is because they don't have the chakra that naruto has. THe Kyubi is what gives NAruto the edge to perform this jutsu. I mean come on, SADLY the RASENSHIRUKEN WAS WASH, RINSE, REPEAT of Rasengan. IF YOU ONLY KNOW HOW DISAPPOINTED I WAS IN KISHI FOR THAT!!! 2 clones == Rasengan, 3 clones== Rasenshiruken... anyhow you look at it, its DAFT :p Naruto's chakra capacity is what allowed him to perform this, I can't see it being much more than that sadly...
Naruto already surpasses him in POWER that was never a dispute, however power isn't very useful without knowing how to control it, and as it stands he cannot thus sasuke has the edge atm. I want Naruto to surpass or at least equal Sasuke beleive me, I was CUSSING wondering what naruto was doing for 2 years PTS seeing as Sasuke was LEAPS AND BOUNDS above in terms and skill. But at the same time to say that Naruto has shown his superiority to Sasuke is well FUD imho at least ATM!
also, kakashi can also do kage bunshin so therefore he can also do the completly ridiculous mega learnings of many clones all at once jutsu that kishi pulled out of his a$$ just like winny said.
And how can you say that naruto has more potential to learn jutsu than sasuke???lol?? lets go over the amount of jutsu's naruto is known to use.
as for saying he can only copy what his body can handlehave we ever seen sasuke copy somethign and then falter??hes not kakashi he has a genuine fortified uchiha bodyas well as juin 2!!which has provided him a ridiculous amount of chakura!!
"As an aside I don't remember Sasuke knowing space time teleportation."Deidara. Manda. Explosion. Deus Ex Machina. Etc
for one, your severely downplaying the amount of chakura that sasuke has @ juin 2and making be all and end all claims out of speculation!!we have not seen sasuke at max potential yet you claim that its an indisputable fact that x y zwhat kinda argument is that?
you keep on disregarding sasuke's potential to learn jutsu's via sharinganand placing naruto's potential over that of sasuke'syet naruto with all this supposed potential has 5 jutsu's to his name!!
then of course yu go saying sasuke doesnt know space time jutsu when its right there in the manga but whatever, things like cannon facts/no guess work needed cause kishi straight up said so, means nothing to you right?
ill ask another thingsurely itachi knows kage bunshin and surely he has a massive pool of chakuraif it takes naruto 20 years to learn somethingare you saying it would take itachi 100 years to learn it as well??
On another note Exar, keep in mind Jaraiya took out the 3 bodies of Pain when facing JUST 3! and to say that Kakashi isn't able to perform as powerful a genjutsu whilst so far we would be inclined to believe, remember he does possess the Sharingan and after his encounter with Itachi's Mangekyou its is HIGHLY unlikely that he hasn't been preparing himself for resisting and potentially using a genjutsu of that calibre.
I do agree with you on the Rasenshiruken being an extremely difficult jutsu to perform, I just think that the Chakra reserve is what gives him the edge. I would sumise that sasuke with similar capabilities in terms of reserves and clone training too could acheive, however it IS so far the most powerful Ninjutsu attack we've seen to date (save the K-O-Ken of the 4 tails used against Oro which would definitely be more destructive OR the suicide of Deidara which was even more destructive).
The edge in performing it certainly, but what about in learning it?Sasuke took three months to learn Chidori, Naruto took a couple weeks to learn Rasengan(a far more impressive feat in itself). Sasuke has Kakashi constantly training him, Naruto had to make due with a general instruction while Jiraiya did 'research'.This is the other point I want to drive home, Naruto's learning capability has been shown to far exceed any other ninja.
It's funny you talk about me dodging points Crixx (I haven't) but yet if there's one constant in this entire debate it's you continually stating false information. Naruto using kyuubi chakra for rasenshuriken, him needing Kakashi to spin the chakra for him, Sasuke knowing space-time jutsu.
second, synch provided a link right there showing kakashi making a rasengan for naruto to do the rasenshurikeni was mistaken about him needing to do that for him in battle, but the proof is right there that kakashi had to do it for him at first! look its right there in black and white!!
The one problem with this idea is that his variety of jutsu doesn't support this at ALL. If he was so good at learning one would think by now he would have learnt more from jaraiya either by begging or in training, but after 1+ year he hasn't learnt much AT ALL. That is the one problem that leads me to no consider him more able than sasuke atm. Now imho he should use the 1000 clone training and study every jutsu from EVERY clan in the whole of konoha as well as read every war log or battle related text that Konoha has to offer, could you IMAGINE how uber he would be if he did that for say.. a month? ah well... pipe dream immc!
first off, most of the time in pst we see naruto with his eyes fox like and his teeth are now fangsobviously at these times, hes heated and the kyuubi chakura is flowing into him changing his appearance and duh giving him chakura for his jutsu's. So iam not lying about that
thats why karin couldnt detect his chakura anymroe! because he moved out of space and time to avoid the brunt of the damage and then got summoned by suigetsu!!
As for kakashiwhat he does is NOT MS that is something entirely different as stated by himself.So dont dare put him in the same class as itachiand as for amaterasuthats a jutsu of the sun god!! how much chakura do yu imagine that takes to pull off??
jiraiya was confident that it was impossible to break free of the frogs throat!! and then itachi burnt it awayjiraiya had never even seen anything like that before and had to seal it away to study it!! once againhow awesome do yu have to be to surprise jiraiya?? when ur 18 no less!!!!
third and 4thlyItachi and sasuke, can both learn kage bunshin, no worries therejutsu controlled by hand seals, and even if they can some how only make 100 clonesthat would be 100 clones with the leet haxx of sharingans!! they can more than learn the hell out of rasengan and any other jutsu!!
also, yu focus so much on naruto's chakura shape and wind manipulation that you seem to forget that sasuke has fire and electricity manipulation abilities! and that he has been seen doing chakura shape manipulation now!!so that probably means that his THAT jutsu will manipulate fire, electricity AND shape!!!thats three fields compared to naruto's two!!