Board Thread:Naruto News/@comment-26490760-20150620025728/@comment-5936871-20150630050552

Thekillman wrote: Contrary to popular belief apparently, Naruto isn't that great a Ninja. His fighting style was created pretty much by Jiraiya, who advised naruto to use brute strength. Ever since that time all his attacks lack finesse and are just brute strength jutsu.

Boruto can easily surpass Naruto as a ninja by being of the Kakashi school of ninja (controlled and analytical battle rather than blasting everyone). Sasuke being the teacher may show that Boruto has a fighting style more like that. If Naruto trains Sarada, that combined with her strength may give her more of a brute strength fighting style.

Lastly, even though the Konoha 11 were hailed as strong ninja that would surpass the old, many flashbacks to hashirama's era show that they were only marginally returning to older levels of strength. Team 7 being mostly the exception among ninja. That isn't true though, being a ninja isn't defined purely by your fighting style. Just because your fighting style relies on brute strength doesn't mean you aren't that good of a ninja, all ninjas have various different fighting styles that rely on different things. Naruto is a great ninja because of the type of person he is, what makes Naruto so special is his personality and his perseverance, not just his ability to destroy things.

Also, regardless, it doesn't really matter if Boruto takes a more analytical and control route. There is no possible way for Boruto to become greater than Naruto (in terms of combat) ever, him having the power of Hagoromo and all of the Tailed Beasts is just too much. Boruto may become a more tactical fighter, and may develop his own unique nindo, but in the end he can never hope to surpass and beat his father in an actual fight.