Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25122992-20161202191623/@comment-734582-20161218094715

9 Arts dragon wrote: Man even pain should've been able to use most dojutsu by virtue of having the original dojutsu that spawned the rest That's not how it works. Rinnegan seems to be a sacrificial upgrade: That is, the Rinnegan does not possess some of the finer Sharingan powers nor does it possess Mangekyou powers, even if the eye it evolved from was (E)MS.

We've already seen that transplanted eyes have more limited power.