Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-33727162-20171121221649/@comment-1458758-20171123020112

Vladosaurus wrote: It would've worked. Naruto doesn't use nine-tails chakra without SM/SPSM these days. Umm, is there literally any proof of this? I've done a quick search, and only once can I actually see any indication of this. It's iffy cause Naruto's appearance has changed so much over the time skip that I can't tell if the new form he uses is still Six Path Sage Mode, or just a chakra cloak, but given he hasn't seemingly used a single technique from back then and doesn't have the staff or the truth seeker balls, unlike Sasuke, who uses his Rinnegan all the time, I honestly couldn't say this is backed up by what we see.

And if Nue would've tried to absorb it, he would've turned into a statue. And there would've been more ways to deal with it. Again, we have no evidence this would be the case. The only reason Preta Pain transformed is because Naruto was holding still and molding more senjutsu chakra to replace what was lost and let Preta Path overload. Not only do we not even know what Six Paths Sage chakra does to the user (Assuming you're correct), there's no way the hold still and let it kill itself method would work like I said above.

A rasenshuriken for instance would've cut his chakra network, and then Nue wouldn't been able to absorb chakra afterwards, since you know, it would either be dead or have his network cut, so no use of chakra there. Here you have something of a point, certainly, hitting it with Rasenshuriken would mess up its day royally and perhaps leave it incapable of fighting back or absorbing more chakra. At which point, the concern that the user (Sumire) would then detonate it anyway still holds true. The big concern for the adults in this fight was that at the point Nue ceases to be a threat via action, it becomes a remote bomb at the behest of its user, and it was already the size of the hokage office, making the potential threat to life and limb quite substantial.

He could've also just use Shukaku's seal like he did with Madara's limbo and restrain it. Again, literally no evidence that Naruto has retained this ability. Unlike Sasuke, Naruto has oddly seemed lacking in using the techniques gained from Hagoromo and the other tailed beasts, which I also feel has to be pointed out that Naruto is not the host to the other tailed beasts, he was granted some of their chakra, so especially in this case, there's no guarantee he can still make use of these abilities fifteen years after the fact.

Naruto not being "able to fight it" was just a dumb reason so that the story would allow Boruto to deal with Sumire in his way. There are plenty of ways to deal with Nue. Yes, like lopping off its tail, which it then grew several more of. Or tying it down, which it then teleported away. I'm not going to argue that there is no way Naruto and the adult ninja of Konoha couldn't of stopped Nue, but the fact that they didn't isn't a problem. They had little time to deal with a complex problem and simply failed to handle it before it got out of their hands. This isn't a plot hole and the way it was handled I think was done very well as its not like Boruto, the person who the series is now about, had a solution to fighting Nue either. His only method of resolving the situation was to talk Sumire out of her revenge, something that would have failed anyway had Nue not shown its own unwillingness to hurt her and blow itself up.

I understand that Naruto is easily one of, if not the most broken character in the series, so situations where, for whatever reason, he is unable to resolve might reek of bad writing, but I honestly don't see this as being the case here. Nue presents an obvious logical threat that the more chakra it absorbs, the stronger it gets, and the bigger the blast when it inevitably detonates, so a character like Naruto, who is basically a walking chakra battery, presents a major liability, because if he gets caught out bt Nue, they risk it becoming more than they can deal with, but similarly, if he beats the bejeebus out of it, the user detonates it anyway and they're all boned. Its a catch 22 for the ninja of Konoha, and again, even Boruto did not have a way around this, his only recourse was to talk Sumire down which nearly failed anyway.