Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3568954-20160929132500/@comment-734582-20160929171642

Actionmanrandell wrote: since learning that the shadow clone's all share there experiences with naruto and gaining experience via shadow clone training. shouldn't naruto gain experience every time an enemy defeats his shadow clones? True, he often uses shadowclones to attempt various tactics and approaches and that way figures out the best way.

Actionmanrandell wrote: naruto could pop up 1000 shadow clones have each of those clones throw 10 punches in 10 seconds. and gain the experience of practicing 10,000 punches in 10 seconds. Experience is a cumulative process. So, it's not very effective to put clones through the exact same process. There's simply an upper limit to how many clones make sense. After all, you pull a punch, then assess how effective it is and do it again with corrections. 1 000 clones doing 10 punches doesn't really give you a whole lot more information. it would be better to have 100 clones do 100 punches. There would only be a big gain for a handful of extra clones.

The second part of this is that the net exhaustion is the same (so if you can train exactly 24 hours in a day, with 1 clone you tire out at 12 hours and with 3 you tire out at 6). So bigger and more powerful techniques require more chakra and give more exhaustion, limiting the clones and training (and thus the gain).

Thirdly, Naruto's a bit of a dunce so he simply *needs* more training to achieve the very same thing.