Board Thread:Boruto: Naruto the Movie/@comment-27162446-20151105015144/@comment-26010916-20151105040007

I'll just law down the facts right now, not going to count uncertain abilities...

First and foremost let me talk a little about Boruto and Sarada speed/reaction wise. From the Movie, and the Gaiden, neither have showed enough credible feats to be placed on-top of each other. When debated on this subject before, someone even tried to tell me that Sarada had MS level speed. Despite Shin reacting to her jump by throwing a kunai, I'll talk more about this later. Back to what I was saying -- Neither have enough feats, so let's just say they are average. Everyone in the Chunin Exams had no feats, bar Sarada who showed skill in CES.

What Sarada does have over Boruto, and every other Genin, is the Sharingan. That alone provides her with superior reaction time to anything coming her way. The only way for Boruto to bypass this, since he doesn't have the speed feats to stop her Sharingan, is the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

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Mind you, this fight was 3T Sasuke vs Base Naruto (/w shadow clones). Sasuke at that time was superior to Sasuke in speed, but Naruto could react to it. In Boruto and Sarada's case, neither is faster, and Sarada's Sharingan only goes up to 1 Tomoe. Considering Boruto canonically made four clones, it's more or less an overkill.

Since close combat pretty much goes in favor due to the shadow clones not allowing her to come at him, and easily dodge his movements via Sharingan, he pretty much creates the Normal Sized Rasengan and ends it in CQC.

Take this with a sense of pride through Kishimoto's writing. The Vanishing Rasengan wasn't sensed by Momoshiki, whom before eating Kinshiki and absorbing his power, was capable of sensing Naruto after defeating Killer Bee, and when Sasuke used Amenotjikara, he sensed him right after and threw him away. Based on these feats, he should have been capable of sensing Boruto's Rasengan, but could not. Which leads me to believe that it cannot be sensed, and if it can't be sensed, it can't be seen through Dojutsu. If it's chakra it has to work for one, if not then you can't provide it would work for the other. Since it's not really explained how it works despite it just being applied with Nature Chakra, take it for what you will. Plot is plot, but it's canon plot.

The only reasonable attack strategy Sarada has to stop Boruto (from what I've seen in other debates) -- Since she can't run up to him in CQC, is the Shannaro stomp (lol), the jumping in the air and slamming herself down. The thing is, like I explained above the Shin's did react to her movement, the reason why they didn't move out of the way (outside of most of them being defected) is that they didn't know what would happen, literally. When it comes to Boruto, given that they both know each other's abilities (given in the extent of current knowledge. As in Sarada knowing Boruto has the Rasengan -- She shouldn't know how the Vanishing Rasengan works, and the shadow clone Jutsu. Boruto should know about her CES with minimal knowledge).

In his match against Shikidai (whom he fought against only using the shadow clone jutsu) he showed different ways to maneuver around the battlefield: http://i.imgur.com/i2OUXu5.png http://i.imgur.com/hTtn2eq.png

A nice intelligence feat in the second picture, Boruto used a shadow clone to be attached to Shikidai's shadow possession jutsu. So that another Boruto could jump off from the clone who was being possessed, and come in closer to Shikidai and attack him. For the most part, it worked, but Boruto didn't know Shikidai could expand his shadow which ended in him being captured.

But back to the Boruto vs Sarada debate. He's capable of winning the feat, bar with his feats alone, cheating and all. I really hope I'm not quoted with facts about him on that alone. We get it, he cheated. Though the factors on why it happened wasn't on his ability of not being able to pass with his own skills, but the mentality of the boy who gives up easily (in contrast to Naruto who tries his hardest). Plus, he wanted Naruto to look in his direction, whom he thought didn't before.

I hope this clears everything up in the debating section.