Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34277398-20190213044806/@comment-35409024-20190216223734

AsianReaper wrote: Jiraiya can enter Sage Mode without Ma and Pa, he just can't do it in combat scenarios Jason of the Mangekyou wrote: Proof? Well, it was said in chapter 410, that Jiraiya had (to an extent) mastered Naruto's training in which allows him to sense and gather Nature Energy.

Then it shows Jiraiya as a Sage without the Toad Sages and said to be one of the best at it (where as Minato is considered weak at it when he can use Sage Mode on his own).

Just common sense should tell you at this point he must have the ability to sense Nature Energy cause even with the Toads, he still has to balance it within his reserves (since they don't do that for him and only gather it for him which is why his Sage Mode is still Imperfect and you can't do that if you can't sense the energy you're trying to balance).

Then in 418, after Naruto was learning without the oil, the Toad Sage still didn't know if Naruto had surpassed Jiraiya in terms of Sage Mode yet even though he entered Sage Mode without any Toad aspects and on his own. This implies Jiraiya knows Sage Mode.

Finally, in the fourth Databook page 149 under Fukasaku's character profile, it says he beat the teachings of Senjutsu in both Naruto and Jiraiya. Senjutsu "is a specialized field of techniques that allows the user to sense and then gather natural energy".

So if he can sense it, gather it, and balance it to some extent, he can do it on his own. So it isn't a question of if he can do it. It's a matter of how long it takes him. That is anyone's guess.