Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-36155684-20180723123229

As with a lot of people I was really amazed at the most recent episode of Boruto. Not only was the teamwork between Naruto and Sasuke magnificent but so was Momoshiki's showings in this episode. It got me interested in him as a character and his abilities.

Looking at his wiki page I noticed that there are no Rinnegan abilities such as Shinra Tensei, Chibaku Tensei and so on listed in his jutsus even though it's known that the Rinnegan grants the users these abilities.

"Possessing the Rinnegan grants the user a family of abilities collectively known as the Six Paths Technique: control over attractive and repulsive forces with the Deva Path; the ability to mechanise one's body with the Asura Path; soul extraction through the Human Path; the menagerie of summons available to the Animal Path; chakra absorption through the Preta Path; and access to the King of Hell through the Naraka Path. These abilities can be distributed to the Six Paths of Pain — six bodies embedded with black receivers, which the user can control remotely. A seventh ability, the Outer Path, is said to allow the user to preside over life and death, granting the ability to revive the dead. The user is also able to summon and control the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, as well as manifest chakra chains to bind the tailed beasts. The dōjutsu also grants the user a shared field of vision with the Six Paths of Pain, the King of Hell, and the Animal Path's summons, all of which possess copies of the Rinnegan." - "Rinnegan" Wiki page.

I know that we haven't really seen much of these from Momoshiki but there's no reason why he wouldn't be able to use these abilities. He possibly in a similar manner to Obito, saw Sasuke's Rinnegan and thought "These guys already know the abilities of the Rinnegan. No point in trying these ones on them." I mean this guy is at least 1000+ years old and if he's had the Rinnegan for more than a human's lifespan worth of years I'm sure he'd be competent with its abilities even if he isn't a ninja who would train for days on end. Plus Nagato was really good with the Rinnegan in his time, in fact he was a master at spamming its abilities - partially due to his uzumaki and senju lineage. But Momoshiki has otsutsuki lineage, his own original rinnegan and similar to Nagato, he spammed it. (not in the same way as Nagato but he still did).

Sasuke, as far as I know, has never shown to mechanize his body with the Asura path or shoot missiles yet is still listed as one of its users. In my opinion Momoshiki should also be listed as a user as he has the Rinnegan. Two or three of them (depending on which Momoshiki) in fact. I'm sure he would've been curious to what else they could do either than suck up chakra and spit it back out. They're literally in the palm of his hands. An explanation could be that Rinnegan users would be absolutely absurd if they all used the paths to the extent of Nagato/Pain.

Another thing about these abilities I'd like to talk about is Almighty Push/Universal Pull. I'd really appreciate if someone cleared this one up for me. In the previous episodes Momoshiki was able to pull Kinshiki into his hand. In the latest episode he reflected Sasuke's shuriken. Me and a number of others thought that the former was Universal Pull and the Latter Almighty Push but apparently it wasn't so could someone please explain it to me. (This doesnt affect my previous points though, it's just to help me understand what I'm seeing.

Overall I just think Momoshiki should be listed as a user of these techniques.

Thanks!

-Bananaramaboi 