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Vladosaurus wrote: Actually, he sent a lot more than 8 or 20. The Manga might not do justice to it because it was only half of panel and didn't show the whole technique, but the anime showed maybe hundreds of shadow clones emerging. Also Naruto use the multi shadow clone version, so it's quite obviously that he conjured a large number of shadow clones.

Naruto sent around 2 or more clones to each battlefield so it could be useful for helping the companies beating Zetsu and much more.Because Naruto "shelves" his own chakra in this form and instead draws on the Nine-Tails', his early uses of it come with a risk that the Nine-Tails will take that shelved chakra, resulting in Naruto's death. Naruto must, therefore, be careful of how long he uses the form for and how many shadow clones he creates, as doing too many only increases the risk. And obviously,Naruto just created a couple of clones.