Talk:Substitute Technique

Name
Page 15 of chapter 487 Zetsu said he used the Shapeshifting Technique. Should we put that as a parent technique, or is this substitute just a Shapeshifting technique? Yatanogarasu, 21:17, March 17 2010 (UTC)
 * Thats a mistranslation.--Deva 27 (talk) 04:23, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

Should we mention (White Half) on the users of Jutsu, since Dark Half hasn't used it?--&lt;&lt;-Rage-&gt;&gt; (talk) 15:19, January 1, 2011 (UTC)

Theory
I have a theory/question. Does this technique change the actual appeareance of the user, or it only allows them to copy the chakra of a different being, and then the user uses a different transformation technique to change their physical appeareance? The way it was disscussed in the last chapter makes it look that way--Kind-Hearted-One (talk) 20:54, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

As far as I know, it's just a Transformation Technique that also transforms the chakra to make a perfect copy. Whatever the normal Transformation Technique does, this one is pretty much the same, and then add the target's chakra to the aspect. Yatanogarasu 21:22, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

Anime version
Shouldn't we add in the Trivia section that anime team has retconed the appearance of Zetsu clone that used Substitute jutsu? Because Zetsu's clones lack the flytrap (the green ones has the alternative on their body, but still not the same), only originals (both Black and White) have it. Faust-RSI (talk) 12:12, June 27, 2011 (UTC)
 * indeed we should.--Cerez365™ Hyūga Symbol.svg 12:30, June 27, 2011 (UTC)

Two Questions
firstly in the viz translation tobi describes this technique as allowing zetsu to make a perfect copy of anyone he's ever touched once. by once does that mean it only works once or that he only needs to have touched the person once for it to work? secondly this technique is said to use chakra of the target and aply the transformation technique, does that mean zetsu's real body can use this as well?98.26.240.179 (talk) 23:12, May 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * He only needs to touch any one once. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 01:19, May 5, 2012 (UTC)