Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26889573-20151008053113/@comment-25506982-20151015153019

GreatestSin wrote: Earth 2 Superman wrote: While the Monkey Sage mode makes sense, it's just overdoing it. Once they gave it to Kabuto and Hashirama, I felt like it kind of stripped away from Naruto being special. Yes, it was critical during the battle against Obito, but I would've loved if Naruto (and Jiraiya before him) was the only one to achieve it. It is my favorite mode and at the time of its conception, in my opinion their idea of 'Super Saiyan.' I like it even better than Kurama and Six Paths. but wouldnt it hae been kind of like cheating if only the frog-summoners have sage mode?

i agree that giving it to others was kind of cheaping it but hadnt this already started with naruto? i mean, jiraya had how many years to master sage mode? 10? 20? and naruto mastered it like in a week right? the same for shadow clone and rasengan, the MC mastered them way to fast depite the fact that acknowledged-genius's needing at least a few years for such feats :I

It wouldn't be cheating because he still had problems again Pain. It wasn't the complete solution to that battle. Also, the fact that it's limited tells you that all is not good once you achieve it. I also like the fact that they went through the process of how he achieved it, in which he had to work for it. Suddenly Orochimaru had access to it because of Juugo's clan being born with it and of course, they couldn't let Hashirama be upstaged.