Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-29965012-20170112023147/@comment-25643824-20170116022136

Wow. You guys gotta really stop making excuses for sasuke. It seems like he is a genius conveniently, naruto and sasuke got their upgrades simultaneously. SM is familiar to naruto as doujutsu is to sasuke, even if mastering the rinnegan was harder, sasuke being a genius and having a "higher IQ" than naruto should have balanced things out.

It took time to master the sharingan when sasuke was a child, the difference now being he was almost an adult. And it is inconceivable that sasuke being the genius, strategist that he is, not to include a former akatsuki memeber would not have an idea of the inherent abilities of the rinnegan.

What has sasuke done as an adult with his rinnegan that he didn't do when he just acquired it? Sasuke didn't use some of the rinnegan techs against naruto because he knew naruto had extensive experience fighting against it. I will concede that he was lacking a bit in the transformation of absorbed chakra into his own, but that's about it.