Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36157725-20180816213118/@comment-34194151-20180817211415

The reason I wasn't impressed by the limbo thing was because sasuke could have done far better. I give him credit for trying to analyze it of course. but his plan was"bah, naruto you go after the clone if/when it reappears. Then his plan was to speed bltiz and seal madara. It wasn't very complex. For an extreme example, put shikamaru's father in that situation, he would have come up with a more complicated plan more quickly. Other characters have shown the ability to quickly grasp new or foreign abilities, study their weaknesses accurately, and use their foresight, knowledge, and resourcefulness to counter act them on a higher scale. Madara himself literally did this better than sasuke, from manipulating obito, faking his death against hashirama, duping tobirama with a shadow clone, etc. So I don't see why he was so amazed.

While it's true naruto can hurt the clones (which again, sasuke should be able to harm it too because he has six paths chakra, if he can split madara in half he should be able to hurt the clone...), naruto is only capable of sensing them, he can't fight them as effectively. We saw that clearly when the clone kept intercepting his attacks and knocking him backward.

'''Sasuke's plan should have been to: one, use naruto's speciality, shadow clones, as diversion. Have naruto make like 3, two of them (including the real naruto) go after madara, and sasuke, the real naruto, and another clone wait wait for the real madara to use limbo. The instant madara's clone appears, sasuke uses his teleporation technique on it. to switch places. Now he and naruto have taken away madara's clone from him, and now the limbo clone is next to naruto's two clones, who already have the sealing jutsu ready to seal the limbo clone with shukaku rasengan. The clone won't be able to react to two naruto's blitzing him from point blank in time after an unexpected teleportation. Now the real sasuke and naruto are in close quarters with madara, ready to seal him. Madara at the time couldn't use more than one limbo clone, so he would have been pressured more into using some other technique. So much potential, but sasuke didn't think of any of this.'''

The izanagi feat again wasn't that impressive either. Let's be honest. Danzo was fighting while heavily restricted by PIS, and he used the izanagi so much and so obviously that even Karin figured out the mechanics. All sasuke did was camp in susano'o in that fight and overpower Danzo. His genjutsu trick was nice, except for the fact it was already established that Danzo could casually see through his genjutsu. Obito had an idea he was using izanagi the whole time. He didn't think it was possible for Danzo to use it because he thought Danzo lacked hashirama cells, but when danzo showed the tree Obito instantly understood.

Deidara's explosion style? sasuke survived that fight because he could A: see the bombs due to sharingan, and B it just so happened that his go- to technique countered the bombs. Sasuke showed competency in that fight, but when you factor in his visual prowess and an elemental advantage doing most of the work in retrospect, it wasn't as impressive.

Obito hasn't had much opportunity to show off intelligence of analyzing a new jutsu, because madara gifted him with knowledge on many already. so he already had prior knowledge. But a comparable feat again is Fuu and Torune. He masterfully caused friendly fire against a tag team duo who rather quickly analyzed his technique and came up with a good plan to counter it. His other intelligence feats are things like playing the dumb and innocent "tobi". He decieved his organization and made Pain the puppet leader. And organization is hard to kill if you don't know who the real head is. The way he orchestrated Nagato and sasuke's descent into the darkness was also a big plus too. Obito also knew his capabilites better. Sasuke charged into the 5 kage summit without doing any kind of recon in the event he had to fight all the kages at once. Obito retreated from the 5 kages and instead went to go increase his strength first by getting rinnegan, and in fact sent sasuke there to simply test out sasuke's abilities. Sasuke hasn't shown anything comparable to this.