Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30830650-20170116074632/@comment-9782468-20170122165105

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: why chakra has to be used ? I mean you have to balance the chakra reserves with Nature energy by being 'absolutely still'.(if you are saying you need some chakra that's negligible since ordinary task too require chakra in ninja world). Your calculation has no chance of extending the "sage mode". Going by your calculation one cannot increase that duration of being in the sage mode(since once you enter it all your chakra has become senjutsu and each time you use jutsu their is no scope of using nature energy/increasing chakra reserve which is contrary to shown in anime/manga, Nor it explains how shadow clones extend the SM limits..) No, you don't need to stay still to balance Nature Energy and your regular chakra. You only need to stay still to gather it. Otherwise, there'd be no point to Ma and Pa gathering Nature Energy for Jiraiya in a fight.

I feel like you didn't read what I wrote but okay. I said the calculation as an example to show the error in your calculation. As in, having 100 chakra would not allow you to gather 33 Sage chakra on top of your already existing regular chakra. That's impossible because Sage Chakra is made of regular chakra and Nature Energy. You can't just have Sage chakra without using up your own chakra to get it.

I also stated that there's probably a minimum to Sage chakra he can create. As in, he can't just make a small amount to keep Sage Mode going, because you need a lot of regular chakra to manage Nature Energy in general. It makes way more sense to just make all of your chakra Sage chakra; that way, he wouldn't have to worry about mixing more and he just has the longest SM possible.

I asked a question on my own thread earlier about clones extending SM, and this is the answer I got; clones get an equal portion of the original's chakra, but they can mould an gather chakra to bring themselves to 100%. However, when they disperse, they can only give back as much as the Original doesn't have; as in, none of them can just have more than their maximum. So by using clones, Naruto can use Sage Mode and then his clones begins moulding Nature Energy and its own chakra, increasing its own chakra too in order to be able to balance more Nature Energy.