Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-26389992-20170606150416/@comment-734582-20170610073430

Elveonora wrote: Dude, Boruto is like 8-9, he did great against Hanabi all things considered. All things considered he did great, but people act like he's some sort of god ninja already. Boruto has raw talent, probably on par with Itachi, Kakashi, Minato. But unlike them, he doesn't do much with it. While his abilities are impressive, he still lacks a LOT. We've seen quite a few people underestimate his talent, especially because his manners and strategy simply do not match his talent.

Ancladar wrote: The shadow clone jutsu is hard to learn as is Rasengan. Naruto is actually talented. The reason shadow clones is a forbidden jutsu is due to the fact most people don't have the chakra to spam it and it can over tax the average ninja. If it was such a easy jutsu to learn everyone in the leaf would know it. Naruto learned Shadowclone in an afternoon. Rasengan took him more than a week of non-stop training. They're not equal.

Shadowclone isn't hard to perform. Shadowclones are hard to use. Think about it, Kakashi can use 5 or 6 Raikiri's. If he uses a shadowclone, he can use half that. After 2 Raikiri, the next one will kill him due to lack of chakra. But what if he made 5 clones? 5 Kakashi would, due to the chakra cost, all lack the chakra to make a full Raikiri and so his clones are useless. He would have to dispel clones to actually use his primary jutsu, yet he'd still pay for the cost of making the clones. It's one big waste of chakra.

That is the real difficulty of Shadowclone: If you can't properly use the jutsu, if you don't have the chakra and jutsu to match, it's a complete waste of chakra. And that's just the low end, worst case scenario someone overestimates their chakra levels and dies trying to perform a jutsu.

Besides, that's exactly why it was a forbidden jutsu and placed on the Sealing Scroll. Unless you know EXACTLY what you're doing (or you're a kid with -for all intents and purposes- infinite chakra) then it's not just a bad jutsu, it's downright lethal.