Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-3568954-20160822081524/@comment-25122992-20160829143631

Actionmanrandell wrote: i disagree. being an uchiha doesn't mean he should have been able to use the Rinnegan better than Nagato. the Rinnegan itself is already hagoromo's power then you add into the fact that Nagato is an uzumaki IE a senju, and has massive chakra reserves. there is absolutely no reason to believe that obito would have ever been able to use it as good as nagato. obito himself said that a single Rinnegan was almost impossible for him to control The reason Obito should've used the Rinnegan more masterfully than Nagato isn't just his Uchiha heritage. He isn't just proficient in doujutsu use as an Uchiha, but has the entire body half consisting from the Hashi's cells. Yeah, as an Uzumaki, Nagato is related to Senju, but he never was an Asura's reincarnation (whose chakra is a necessary component for Rinnegan awakening), unlike Hashi, and thus does not possess as powerful "Sage body" as Hashi did. And since Obito has that kind of body, technically, he's comparable to a weaker version of Hagoromo - he has both his "body" and "eyes" power, although not the most powerful versions of them (which are wielded only by Indra's/Asura's reincarnations). In fact, this is the main reason Obito could control the Gedo Statue without the Rinnegan, as Madara noted. Thanks to these powers, Obito is much more suitable for wielding the Rinnegan than Nagato ever was.

Another question is the control of power Obito could get. As a person more fitting for the Rinnegan, he probably could access somewhat more power than Nagato did, but he tried to gain the control over it immediately and almost failed. Nagato got an advantage of having an adjustment period in his childhood and working on his Rinnegan power his entire life, while Obito needed to receive as much power as possible as soon as possible (due to the FSWW). Obito managed to handle the single Rinnegan immediately, with great issues of cource, but thanks to his he deduced that a second Rinnegan would be too risky in terms of possible loss of control over its entire power. He was quite intelligent and should've realised that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.