Board Thread:Naruto: The Last Discussion/@comment-25984471-20150108041309/@comment-7292165-20150109000556

Sorry nothing. In what occasions has Kakashi praised Shikamaru. Give me three times. Jonin rank also isn't aboyt running and hiding and taking forever to think of a plan either. As for Rock Lee. Rock Lee has shown to be a good leader, hard trainer, battle adpet, etc. He's practically a clone of Might Guy who is a Jōnin. If anyone deserved a promotion or at least a Tokubetsu Jōnin promotion it would be Lee but nope. And I don't care if Kakashi gave him the promotion. Kakashi entrusts Shikamaru to be a leader of his own team is gonna get that team killed. Wait his members of the team will be on the front lines while Shikamaru takes several hours to come up with a plan and when he thought of one they'll be dead because of him. I mean he almost let Chōji get hit by Hidan when he stopped Chōji with the Shadow Possession and didn't bother to move him when he clearly seen Hidan come at him. All of Shikamaru's plans have been decent at best. None were great. His skills lacked badly. He hardly could even stay in a fight with his crappy stamina. His genjutsu, moving on. Taijutsu. His taijutsu is below average. Speed. Average. And I'm not taking the stats into account as they are flawed anyways for the most part. Overall we are speaking at a Genin with Chūnin level intelligence. Sorry his fight with Temari was bogus. Anyone with sense would know that. The strategy he pulled wouldn't have come into play as he already would've been beaten 2 minutes into the match had he had not had plot.