Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170915213819/@comment-27924662-20170925142422

Thekillman wrote: he didn't pump Sasuke for his ego. Sasuke was simply the closest to him in intelligence and capability, and so the effects of training him would be far more noticeable. He did pump Sasuke for Sasuke's ego(not his own). you saw how easily he left the village for this very reason, once Kakashi didn't had anything much to teach. He had started getting impatient in several missions since he wasn't learning anything worthwhile for combating Itachi. Thekillman wrote: He also had to deal with the worst team composition of two kids butting heads at every opportunity. Sakura was much more booksmarts which doesn't even remotely match Kakashi's way of thinking, and Naruto had about 12 years of education to catch up on. It took Jiraiya, someone who thinks similar to Naruto, 3 whole years of one-on-one teaching to beat basic ninja skills into him. As far as I can see Naruto already knew most of the basics having worked them over with Iruka, Infact he was teaching them to Konohamaru's Squad. He was pretty good at throwing Kunai and so on. Even Sakura's fundamentals were very good, She could have easily gone for learning Genjutsu skills/Ninjutsu nature Transformation. Afterall She picked up Tree climbing even faster than Sasuke. Come on and besides Naruto and Sakura weren't the worst of the bunch, Sakura was descent and Naruto started picking up pace like anything once he learnt Shadow clone jutsu, Every fight he was learning and making new moves of his own.