Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-36512555-20180814043009/@comment-34194151-20180814200809

When talking about speed feats, I don't think anyone is denying that obito has good reactions and CQC speed, if he didn't he would be long dead right now even with kamui. Some of that is due to the sharingan. But running speed feats is what is uncertain, and running speed is what determines if you can roflblitz another character or not by pure shunshin speed. The ability to force yourself into striking distance before the opponent can escape.

'''595 p7-8: Obito turns around and runs a few feet to get in Naruto's face before Naruto could finish his step while Naruto was midrun. '''

This feat interests me the most, as its the one where gai intercepted obito before he could touch naruto. What's interesting is that we don't know how gai got there. He could have jumped off a rock and used gravity to help increase his speed to make in time. IT does seem like naruto couldn't move his right foot in the time that obito closed the distance. Which seems to imply that obito was faster than naruto in that moment. The anime also portrays that as well. So the debate we have been having is if naruto was using his top speed. It's very possible that he was and makes sense that he was. Why use a slower speed when speed is critical to tagging obito due to his kamui. So I think the reference point we must use is gai and kakashi. gai and kakashi seemed to keep up, but each time they did there were circumstances that make it hard to tell. so if you think that kakashi and base gai were able to keep up, then kcm naruto's speed is definitely nerfed, as those guys have no buisness keeping up with V2 Ayy. But it could also at the same time be that their speeds were boosted. So idk how you can tell which is which.