Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25531508-20140921150550/@comment-12509038-20140923203644

Rachin123 wrote: First off Sasuke stopped training prior to killing Orochimaru. After that he just gained power ups. Naruto trains his butt off despite not the brighter in the bunch his training methods should make much better than the outcome comes out to be. All the attention of prowess goes to Sasuke and that's one thing that irked me. First and foremost, let me state that I do acknowledge that Naruto has trained much more than Sasuke in order to receive his powers. However, Naruto has been given his fair amount of power-ups as well. Naruto is 100X more powerful currently than when he and Bee escaped Turtle Island and joined the War. He did not work hard to get those powers, nor did he train about how to use them. But at this point in the story, it's really not a big issue- the main characters getting power-ups at this point in entirely acceptable.

Also, just because we don't see Sasuke training doesn't mean he doesn't train. Had the series been called Sasuke, and had he been an even more important character than he already is, we would see his training process. However, since Naruto is the main/titular character, we see all of his training and Sasuke's is left unseen. Also, sometimes it seems as if Sasuke trains how to use his powers in the middle of a battle. Instead of practicing these skills on his own, he uses them in the middle of a battle, and then learns how to adapt to it over the course of the fight. One example is how he first used Amaterasu on Killer Bee, and then by the time he fought the Raikage, he could add shape manipulation to the technique. Also, this was very present when he used the Susanoo for the first time- it started out as a small ribcage, and then as he used it more prominently, it eventually evolved into the epic Perfect Susanoo that he can use now.