Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25643824-20170907153936/@comment-30323490-20170907164747

Well, yes, but the Statue would drain life from any summoner, not Nagato's in particular. So it doesn't count as a drawback, at least not in the sense that he is using the rinnegan with drawbacks.I mean let's be honest, he handled the 6 paths of Pain flawless.With the Deva Path, when trully pushed, he wiped out the entire leaf village, and even after that he still controlled the other 5 paths without any problems.After that hard battle with Naruto, he was still powerful enough to pull a CT.For me, Nagato is the only rinnegan user who truly mastered it and exploited it to its fullest (Except Hagormo of course, but he is featless).