Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-38812954-20190920230637/@comment-4080775-20190921111740

Chidori wouldn't have made much of a difference given Jigen's ability to absorb techniques. As all people should know by now, Naruto has LOST his Truth-Seeking Balls, and absolutely nowhere in the manga have we ever seen anyone use Yin-Yang Release by itself for combat purposes..

Jigen literally trolled their Avatars. If someone trolled arguably my best technique, I'd be just like Sasuke and Naruto too, shocked.

When Sasuke called Naruto to set up that attack,they messed by because they made it very clear what they were aiming for by projecting the attack. Jigen saw through it. In no way did they get nerfed. They just weren't ready for a real fight with Jigen, and because Jigen wasn't able to finish the job like he intended, neither was he at his peak.

In a video game, being nerfed implies a feature of a particular weapon or character was removed for balance or they aren't capable of doing damage or effects like they used to. Naruto and Sasuke weren't nerfed. They literally had all their abilities (besides TSB on Naruto's part) at their disposal and didn't use them. If they didn't use them, they deemed them not effective enough to use. Naruto literally said he didn't need to hold back and could go all out and Sasuke outright manifested his Perfect Susanoo because he deemed Jigen such a threat, so they clearly went all out.

It was already stated that Kama would be needed to defeat Jigen and Koji wasn't kidding. Naruto and Sasuke are ill equipped at this point in time to deal with the threat at hand, despite going all out. They weren't given PIS, or Nerfed, they were outright ill equipped.