Board Thread:Naruto News/@comment-26490760-20150620025728/@comment-734582-20150625141037

Tuxedo12 wrote: It feels like Boruto is better than Naruto was as a kid he easily learns Shadow Clone Jutsu, Rasengan and Chidori something Naruto always wanted to learn, but could not. Contrary to popular belief apparently, Naruto isn't that great a Ninja. His fighting style was created pretty much by Jiraiya, who advised naruto to use brute strength. Ever since that time all his attacks lack finesse and are just brute strength jutsu.

Boruto can easily surpass naruto as a ninja by being of the Kakashi school of ninja (controlled and analytical battle rather than blasting everyone). sasuke being the teacher may show that Boruto has a fighting style more like that. If naruto trains Sarada, that combined with her strength may give her more of a brute strength fighting style.

Lastly, even though the Konoha 11 were hailed as strong ninja that would surpass the old, many flashbacks to hashirama's era show that they were only marginally returning to older levels of strength. Team 7 being mostly the exception among ninja.