Board Thread:Naruto Gaiden/@comment-4704473-20150603131227/@comment-26388300-20150604153659

Elveonora wrote: Also they aren't really that rusty. I mean, they had children with them, they couldn't have gone Tailed Beast Mode and Perfect Susanoo crazy or whatever.

We've seen lesser shinobi with no possession of a Tailed Beast Mode or Mangekyo Sharingan counter and defend better than this though lol... hell, Kabuto blocked Sizune's needles with his forehead protector!

The entire "rusty" argument in itself isn't very satisfactory, just from a sheer entertainment perspective. Imagine if we'd gone from the Cell Saga to the Buu Saga and learned that Goku hadn't spent his Otherworld time training, but getting rusty lol... no, as the fans, we prefer to hear that he's developed SSJ3 mode, that he's upped his game! Similarly, I don't think anyone wants to hear that Naruto's been chilling for the past few years and has gotten weaker; they want to hear that he's used the enormous resources at his disposal as the Hokage to become stronger.