Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26636534-20170616123523

The Shadow Clone Jutsu is certainly the most versatile of the clone techniques. Despite it's drawbacks, it can be utilized in various combinations with other techniques and so on. There seems to be room for more development on this jutsu. My question is, what other offensive, defensive and supplementary techniques can be created from using the Shadow Clone technique as a base?

Some ideas:

1) Shadow clone training to the max. Only Naruto demonstrated this ability so far, however if used to the full extent it has the means to make the user, at bare minimum, one of the most powerful shinobi to have ever lived.

2) Shadow clone remote creation/switching. When using the Mass Shadow Clones, Naruto could create thousands of clones. When created, these clones seemed to randomly pop up close to the user, the more clones that were created the further they were placed from the user. It should then be possible to create a shadow clone within a certain determined radius from the user, akin to a close range space-time technique that would certainly have many combat uses.

3) Mirrored Shadow Clones. Allows the user to make a shadow clone of their opponent, that has the consciousness of the user and memories of the opponent. The downside is that, both the user and the opponent's chakra will be halved. 