Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-33256714-20171005000302/@comment-33156027-20171007122552

Vladosaurus wrote: False. I believe it's a misconception that the Rinnegan is an evolved sharingan. It's not. You don't require a sharingan to obtain a rinnegan. Kabuto's words are misdirectly as well. Also, the rinnegan does not posses sharingan abilities. The only rinnegan who ever possessed sharingan abilities is Sasuke's, and that symbolised by it's tomoes, and that's about it. Rinnegan is ancestor of the Sharingan, it comes from Indra who inherited his visual power from his father, who had the Rinnegan and inherited it from Kaguya, so Sharingan is devolution of the Rinnegan, like Rinnegan is devolution of the Rinne sharingan. That's how I interprets it. Sharingsn, MS, Rinnegan and Rinne Sharingan are stages/evolution of the same doujutsu, and there is no such rule that you need to have them in order (sharin-ms-rinne-rinne sharin), you can awaken immeditly Rinnegan or even Rinne Sharingan without necessity of get other stages first.