Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34656247-20180830063430/@comment-34194151-20180907203221

@Loneninja

When I was talking about gaara's sand, I was talking about how in the war-arc he couldn't tag the 2nd mizukage's water clone because his sand was too slow. he needed to outsmart the clone to hit it. Also, I don't recall Gaara tagging madara with his sand. He was only able to do that with ohnoki lightenining the sand. Otherwise he used tactics to land the sand, or his sand was used on susano'o, which is a large target after all. The sand is very fast of course, but the speed of the sand has been a consistently noted weakness against top tier speedsters.

@Mr.Grave

The totuska blade was said to be ethereal. Some fans interpret this to mean it can phase through objects, but it's unclear if it can actually do that, due to lack of feats as I said before.