Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26107879-20181004003653/@comment-34194151-20181209023851

like I said, PLOT. In chapter 276 pg 17 Deidara himself says he can't cast any techniques because he lost his arms. Yet he is able to do substitution+ clay clone, exploding clone, and hiding like a mole. Blatant plot armor/inconsistency. The hand seals are only focused on when the plot needs it.

Minato very clearly expressed concern about chakra when he was warping the nine tails away, so why would splitting his chakra in half beforehand be a good idea?

Lol,If naruto tried to hit him with the bijuu dama from behind, all Obito has to do is predict it and phase through it, and guess what, Might guy dies to friendly fire lmao. Obito did that same feat against Fuu and Torune. So if Obito was as fast as you claimed he would have ran a circle around guy, pretend to try to warp him away, baiting naruto into attacking him, then bijuu dama phases through and hits might guy. Poor might guy dies, now obito can move back to attacking naruto, while naruto is in emotional discord from accidentally killing bushy brow sensei... Obito isn't as fast as you are claiming. KCM Naruto and Ayy were the fastest shinobi alive in terms of running speed before Minato, Tobirama, and six paths characters came into play.

And lol no, Naruto's goal wasn't to retreat from the battle. He was trying to keep a safe distance in that instance with the rocks because one touch=death. Obito only tagged him by cunningly phasing the gunbai through a rock, which caused naruto to only see the gunbai at the last second, allowing obito to restrain him once he blocked it. That was a feat of cunning and combat speed, not running speed lol. Naruto wasn't using his top running speed there.

I keep telling you the characters very obviously don't always use their top speed in the midst of battle. Killer Bee, while electrocuted, moved so fast that Jugo didn't even notice that he moved. Killer Bee used his top speed in base to escape, and Taka was forced to use Karin's sensing abilities to find him. Killer bee is objectively faster than sasuke and everyone on his crew. In a sword fight, you use your running speed to control the distance, and then the fight is about combat speed/skill. He is facing someone with the sharingan, and yet still outmanuevered and tagged sasuke multiple times, but that has nothing to do with running speed.

Lol, like I said, we gotta talk about physics smh... It isn't Kishimoto's job to spoonfeed us details that should be common knowledge. A Piercing move benefits from added momentum even more so than other attacks because force is required to ensure the penetration is clean. Chidori =/= rasengan which is a dense rotating sphere of energy waiting to grind and then explode into it's target on it's own, chidori is simply a more powerful knife. Look back to the water tower scene betwen naruto and sasuke in part one. Then look back to when kakashi was a kid. His goal was to kill multiple opponents at once in an "instant". running at your top speed ensures the chidori gets the most momentum and force to aid it's raiton properties in piercing through and instantly kill the target, with the additional point that hopefully your opponent won't be able to react to a loud (sound of 1000 birds) and easy to see beeline attack. It's an assasination technique. Some characters in naruto have an ultimate defense (like gaara) or wear body armor, which would be harder to penetrate using a knife like stabbing attack. Even with his absolute top rock lee speed, Sasuke could only manage a cut on Gaara's shoulder through Gaara's ultimate defense. If he tried doing that without running first, chidori wouldn't have even penetrated the sand sphere at all.

Rock lee already proved that running at your top speed without the "eye" causes tunnel vision. Guy also stated sasuke was trained to rock lee levels of speed in preparation for the use of chidori.

My point about kcm naruto not running circles around the jinchuriki once the forest was destroyed still stands. when naruto uses his top speed, the characters make it abundantly clear. When he used his top speed to chase after kisame, kisame got blitzed, he was called the yellow flash, but naruto's foot got stuck in the ground, showing naruto's inexperience with using his newly found speed. When ayy used his absolute top speed, naruto was forced to use his absolute top speed to evade the attack. If naruto used his top speed24/7 then V1 Ayy wouldn't have been able to intercept him, period. Running at your top speed causes tunnel vision, and the faster you run the more time it takes to slow down. deceleration isn't instant. If naruto used his bamflash speed and gets counter attacked, he can likely sense it due to his malice sensing but his body is still off-balance from the extreme speed. In those precious seconds, a well timed attack can hit him while he is on the deceleration.

So given that, why would Minato run at his top bamflash speed straight into a chain? The faster he runs, the more momentum he has, the more force he has, and Newton's third law still is in play. if those chains hit him in the neck while he ran at such speeds he would be dead. Minato isn't an idiot, so he ran at a moderate speed once obito charged at him, and then analyzed obito's fighting style further. Minato's thought bubbles after that debunk your claim.

Here is the finale. The real reason Minato banned the technique is because the technique is designed to be used when the caster is running at high speeds. Hokage kakashi has lost his sharingan, so he cannot run at his top speed anymore with the jutsu. If you use the raikiri while standing still in CQC, that is also not worth the chakra cost when it requires handsigns (I'm ignoring plot armor here) and a kunai can serve the same function in most situations and it's easier to simply deflect kakashi's attack. kakashi uses the raikiri in situations where the rasengan is the better choice because of his personality, and because of the raiton chakra it can still kill people in close quarters combat but the penetrative force is not as devastating that way.