Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-31377229-20180125162054/@comment-25643824-20180130170057

TheUltimate3 wrote: Chapter 230, I dunno the page. Naruto vs Sasuke. Once Sasuke's sharingan progressed to Stage 3, he could see exactly where Naruto would be before Naruto even got there. This is what I meant when I said, they basically can see the future. I did not mean they could literally and know your fate like Nighteye.

One thing to understand is that the tunnel vision and the inability to react are not completely linked. Just because you solve one issue, doesn't mean the second problem is also solved. The Sharingan's ability to 1) nullify the tunnel vision and 2) predict exactly what the opponent will do before they do it is the reason why the Sharingan is required to make the Chidori not a danger.

Just having the Byakugan solve the tunnel vision, but not the ability to practically see the future and allow the user to react to things that didn't happen yet, means that the Chidori still ends up a flawed and risky technique. EDIT: The closest thing I've found from this wiki was the Byakugan being able to follow high speed movement which allows them to better analyze things and predict what could happen. I haven't been able to find a page of this in practice however, so unlike the Sharingan example above which was straight up "I CAN SEE THE FUYYCHA"-sight, so I don't know if their predictive ability is JUST them analyzing stuff better. Either way, that still doesn't change the fact the person needs to be actively doing the movement.

Ok I get your point and I’m not saying the byakugan can track high speed movements to the degree of the sharingan that’s one of the sharingan special abilities, but the byakugan IMO can track movements substantially better than the normal to allow a hyuga to use chidori.

Points to note:

1. During both the bee and A fights sasuke has ms sharingan activated and still couldn’t track bee or A’s movements fast enough to avoid taking serious damage.

2. Chapter 113 pg9 guys tells kakashi “that’s why you trained him in Taijutsu to heighten his speed” implying that it’s not the chidori that gives you the speed but it requires the wielder to be able to attain a very high speed to be effective. Chapter 114 pg4 lee is contemplating to himself and says “I would never run at the opponent straight on like that because it would be easy for the opponent to counter then he says he can’t do it!” But not because he is incapable of the speed or incapable of moving fast enough to react, he plainly says he doesn’t have the eyes to see the counter. And with the byakugan someone will be able to see the counter even better than the sharingan because of the increased field of vision, man I mean that is very simple to understand.

3. There’s no need to predict the opponent movements (even though it would be helpful) but it’s the person who’s using chidori who is moving at a high speed not the opponent it wouldn’t be any different than a normal engagement between to foes actually once you can see the opponents attack it will be easier for you to counter than the opponent since you are already moving faster.