Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20150219132354/@comment-3568954-20150219215931

Bagatrix wrote: NeedleJizo wrote: Once again, I want to state my complete and utter disbelief that people this smart and powerful are JUST Genin.

On the previous Chunin exams we had Gaara and Naruto, both Jinchuriki and insanely powerful. Then there were Lee and Neji, both ridiculously powerful taijutsu users, Sasuke, who Kakashi himself says at their very first training exercise had a chakra level higher than a regular genin, Zaku, who could generate impossibly destructive air waves from his hands, and Temari, who could level a whole forest with a single jutsu. Sakura was also smart enough to answer ridiculously hard questions without cheating and Shikamaru was a strategy genius. Guy's dad was a genin all his life, and still he could open all 8 gates. Naruto and Sasuke are, technically, genin.

The thing is, we don't know the past of the participants. We don't know their age, and how many times they've flunked the exam, which seems to be a very easy thing to do, as the tests are specifically designed to narrow down the amount of people. It's been 2.5 years since the last exam, for all we know they spent all that time preparing for this.

Plus, are they really that powerful? All we've seen so far is a couple genjutsu (which don't feel so different from what the Rain ninja used on part 1), a person using a bow, one using puppet arms, and Yome's dojutsu, which has no true offensive use. The only thing I'm calling total BS in is Shira taking all of Neji's 64 palms and just shrugging them off. Other than that, I don't think they're so OP

her dojutsu would be very good for combat it has defensive capabilities allowing her to easily evade. which would allow her to counter very effectively all though the weakness to brightness would be the only downfall

Elveonora wrote: I don't think he simply shrugged them off, that's impossible. Gentle Fist works by expelling chakra through tenketsu into the opponent's chakra circulatory system. If I were to guess, he nullified the attack simply by doing the same, expelling chakra through tenketsu hit by Neji. Nah that would require some excellent chakra control on his behalf. and like they have said No one can expel chakra from there tenketsu like the hyuga clan and if you look closely he actually did not get hit once by the gentle fist. and when using the 64 palms they only expels chakra from the tenketsu in the palms of there hands Not the wrists so i highly doubt he did that. he simply blocked the strikes by striking neji's wrists