Board Thread:Naruto: The Last Discussion/@comment-25984471-20150108041309/@comment-7292165-20150108095214

First off, yes Sakura spotlight as a main character has been stolen several times thanks to Naruto, Sasuke and even Kakashi and I'm mad at that however she has shown great promise as a Jōnin should. Shikamaru is not great. At best he's good on a good day. As for laziness, Shikamaru wasn't even that lazy in Shippūden. I think you need better explanations. Things that made drastic changes to achieve his rank is what I'm looking for. Anyways I said what I said and though its my opinion Shikamaru has yet to show the skills of being great to achieve that rank. So his rank is all for show. Others showed more capabilities than Shikamaru. For the record I don't dislike Shikamaru I just don't see him as being very skilled or smart. How the heck do you measure an IQ score with a chess game?

@Sarutobi I didn't say Sakura being a Jōnin is the problem. Shikamaru stayed hiding for more than half of the battle in the Hidan and Kakuzu battle. Also neither Kakuzu or Hidan pages much attention to Shikamaru because that's how worthless they thought of him.