Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-28939725-20161201164545/@comment-3965545-20161205233221

Run of the mill or not, he was a child who was not a shinobi nor learning to be one.. and just happened to be the perfect host according to Madara/Black Zetsu, therefor the eyes were transplanted into him. If Nagato was trained by Madara instead of Obito. He would have accomplished the eye of the moon plan much earlier. There is nothing to say he could not do the things Obito did. He simply did not know of the variations Obito used. Obito told Sakura that he could barely handle One Rinnegan eye and almost lost control with it, so he did not try and implant the second one. Nagato and Madara alone were labeled as Second and Third Six Paths.