Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26636534-20171019193715/@comment-26636534-20180112125315

@Actionmanrandell, thanks for clarifying.

I think a lot of the time, we often confuse ability for intelligence. The Sharingan's predictive and detective powers are used as a tool to determine an opponents jutsu for a counter-offensive. As seen with Sasuke vs Deidara, Sasuke used his sharingan to determine that Deidara used earth release seals for his jutsu. He was also able to see where the mines were placed in the fight.

Knowing that Lighting release trumps earth release, he disabled the bombs. Is that really a feat of intelligence? Sasuke had all the information he needed because it was provided to him by the sharingan. Sure, he needed to test it out and obviously, you need more than two brain cells to utilize the sharingan, but can you really use this as an indication of intelligence?

To me, this is more ability than intelligence. Naturally, this leads to the question, what form of intelligence matters more, but I'm unsure about this.