Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20170920093317/@comment-35622277-20170921014636

You do realize that exceptional people outshine those that are not?

Boruto and Sarada possess much more natural talent than their respective fathers when they were in the academy, and yet, Boruto can only make a small breeze, and Sarada can barely maintain a single Kage Bunshin. Iwabe and Sumire are also exceptionally talented, and Iwabe doesn't even count since he's old enough to be a Chunin, and Mitsuki was grown in a vat.

Why did Itachi shine in the academy? Why was he considered a prodigy? Why was he the only one to possess any chakra natures in the academy?Answer is simple, everybody else around him were just, average.

Just like everybody else save for the main cast, who (you guessed it), are all exceptional. People with talent simply outshine others that do not have it, at least in the beginning.

Even most of the Konoha 11 were nothing special, they were viewed as an untalented bunch of misfits in the academy, as many of them showed no natural talent. Not even Sasuke was that great, whom had to train hard to get where he was at.