Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-25319479-20180120103733/@comment-33953813-20180124062645

BlazeRelease wrote:

To be fair, the important thing, as they mentioned was to bring the info collected back to the leaf. It is not, in any way, smart to underestimate your opponent. Especially when you don't know much about his abilitis.

And if Ao still has his byakugan. Then he can definently see outside the rocks he was in.

Striking with a long range or close range attack that has enough power to destroy a robotic hand might clear up some of the ruble, Ao's being held with. Like I mean, there's no guarantee that Ao's robotic hand will be destroyed by a rasengan since he's still getting up after that attack, which led him under rocks. But there is the fact that it will help Ao to escape out of the rocks faster, since the rasengan will destroy or clear up the rocks around his hand.

And like I said before, bringing info back to the village is more important than killing an enemy. The leaf already has overpowered beings(Naruto, Sasuke) so it's not like Ao will just return to the leaf village and be able to pose a threat. So the important thing was to reach the village, and bring the info. Ao in any case, can not be close to Naruto's range. And so it is more smarter to do the mission and not try to be the hero, especially when it's unnecessary.

I agree that rasengan could clear the rubble but konohamaru isn't any ordinary jonin, I am sure he can adjust his attacks so as to only hit Ao's hand and not displace the rubble too much. And he must have many other justus than the rasengan.

Yeah their main objective was to bring back the Intel but they knew that Ao has lived through the rubble and will be coming back at them so it would be better to have a handicapped Ao running behind them than a fully equipped Ao. And it wouldn't take konohamaru much time to launch an attack at Ao's hand so it's not that he would have wasted time doing it.

Well, what's done is done. Can't do anything about it. Hopefully, Konohamaru will handle Ao more efficiently in the next chapter so that the match doesn't feel too one-sided. I have high hopes from konohamaru and team 7 in the next chapter and just for once I don't again want Katasuke saving the day for team 7.