Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-31966672-20200409171208/@comment-4961229-20200412072751

LegionZero wrote:

Yea but if you pay attention to the scene he is pointing out body language that can be seen with normal human eyes. He doesnt need the Byakugan to see and breakdown.

Out of your list only Sage mode has been shown to have near-precognitive abilites like the Sharingan.

If Byakugan had predictive abilities Sasuke might have mentioned it when showing Boruto the Chidori since Boruto has the potential to use the Byakugan

That wasnt a response to you. You clearly acknowledged that tge Byakugan makes it easier.

Rasengan doesnt need predictive abilities to use and it was never stated that it did.

Given how its suppose to overwhelm the target with speed, the Sharingan user would see other enemies before closing in on the target.

Generally the user shouldnt be using with with too many enemies around anyways. It's a 1 hit kill assissination technique meant to take out 1 enemy.

Byakugan also doesnt have the predictive capabilities that would be needed to make adjustments if needed. In VOTE1 Sasuke couldnt touch Naruto until his 3rd tomoe came in and then he was literally seeing movements before they happened and then Naruto couldnt touch Sasuke Yeah, but if you paid attention you'd see that Neji doesn't start cold reading until he activates his Byakugan. Before that moment he's simply talking about OVERALL characteristics he's noticed about Hinata's personality and situation prior to this moment, NOT what she's thinking right at that moment: https://i.imgur.com/JNuqeaf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ZXnDtnC.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jRjoM6n.jpg If you missed this, you've missed the second of the two main points of this scene, which is to showcase the Byakugan. Neji himself tells us that he's gathered all this information PREVIOUSLY with the Byakugan: https://i.imgur.com/XKVu8yX.png Kakashi remarks on the Byakugan's similarities to the Sharingan and states that it far surpasses the Sharingan's "penetrating perceptive ability." That is the ability that Neji is using that Kakashi is describing. That is HOW Neji himself states he is cold reading, probably because, you know, they don't teach cold reading in Ninja school, so how else would a child learn it?

I didn't say anything about the Byakugan having precognitive abilities. I said it gives you a metric F ton of information on a target and a ninja might be able to use that info, logic, and experience to figure out someone's next course of action. Go back and read my post until you understand it.

In any case, you don't need precognitive abilities to complete Raikiri. Minato stated why Raikiri was incomplete. It has a single point of focus (tunnel vision) and you move too fast to see the counter attack: https://i.imgur.com/oQCy9AG.png Rock Lee stated why he can't charge straight in. It's easy to dodge and counter. And he doesn't have the eye to respond to that counter: https://i.imgur.com/eq1kiVU.png In order to fix this you need something ANYTHING that allows you to witness the counter attack. Kakashi completes Raikiri when he acquires TWO tomoe Sharingan: https://imgur.com/zQEiGYz https://i.imgur.com/a74D2Z2.png https://imgur.com/UYodFNY Do I need to post the pages for you to acknowledge that only three tomoe Sharingan has predictive abilities? The Byakugan is MUCH better than the two tomoe Sharingan in its perceptual abilities. Only three tomoe outstrips the Byakugan.

Nor should I have to post all of the pics of various sensor nins avoiding strikes they can't see with their eyes, using only their various sensing abilities. Mu dodged attacks from behind. Karin aided Sasuke in barely keeping up with Kirabi, when his own doggone Sharingan was insufficient. If Kakashi had anyone of those abilities, he'd be able to witness any counter act that his personal speed could specifically keep up with anyway. And that would be all he needed to complete Raikiri.

Only opponents who were much faster than he was could present a problem. Only for those opponents is the three tomoe Sharingan/Threat Perception/Precog necessary. This is because Precog allows you to deal with opponents who are physically much faster than you are, like cloaked Naruto vs Sasuke, Sage Mode Naruto vs 3rd Raikage, etc. You don't need Precog for ninjas only slightly faster or on the same level as you are. And you don't need Precog to complete Raikiri.