Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-36528625-20180810001142/@comment-34194151-20180813030155

@legionzero

Yeah, but my problem with him doing being able to do the moving of his own accord (whether by running or levitation or rocket boosters) is that then he didn't need to stop to absorb jiraiya's shadow clone katon. Preta stopped to absorb the jutsu, but then his other paths were vulnerable to the fireball from the real jiraiya. If he can just run with the barrier around him I felt like he would have done so rather than make preta path a sitting duck. But yeah, this is just theoretical, so I won't push it too hard. But its kinda simliar to how Lord Muu didn't seem to be able to move and charge jinton at the same time. Like, naruto blitzed him from behind while he was charging jinton, and he had to disable his cube to dodge, and then reform. So I'm thinking its something similair with preta path, where nagato can't run or levitate while using preta, instead requiring a third party force to do the moving for him. his summons can do this but ofc that is situational to an extent too. But it probably doesn't matter as nagato can win as you said.

I mean did we ever see frog kata ever again after the preta path incident lol? I'm pretty sure kishi forgot how op that move was. It's hard to dodge if you aren't a sage and we don't know the range to which naruto can control the nature energy punch.but yeah either way it would be hard for naruto in this version to pull off.

I agree with your counterargument to the smokescreens, what I said is situational, so it depends and is more likely to go into nagato's favour, but based on what we saw naruto might have a chance. Nagato through out the canon seemed to be averse to using jutsu when his opponents were behind big smoke screens, he instead waited for attacks to appear or for the smoke to clear, possibly because he didn't want to waste attacks unless he could be sure they would land on the opponent, especially shinra tensei, which is valuable and shouldn't be used recklessly due to cool down. I mean, he also basically gave kakashi time to have a convo with choji and chouza, to plant a chain in the ground, and set up an ambush with choji and choza.