Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26104757-20170603144113/@comment-27924662-20170615041206

Slug Princess00 wrote: Useless? A poor choice of word, honestly. Base Sakura is enough to kill Shikamaru. He's an excellent analyst, but this is Sakura he's going up against, not Ten Ten or Hinata, so that's not going to work on her to the extent he needs it to. Tsunade and Sakura are very individualistic fighters who don't complicate things, but Shikamaru's way of elaborating plans to overwhelm his opponents won't be effective if they don't give him enough content to use. Sakura, specifically, is intelligent herself, and will be mindful enough not to give him the time to construct some trap without her knowing by keeping him close, in range, and in sight. Even if does gain the distance, what is he going to do if Sakura summons Katsuyu? He can't throw paper bombs everywhere hoping they'd kill it. This is Gaiden Sakura, too, and her chakra control is so refined that she doesn't even need a point of impact to release her strength. She can literally send a shock wave of chakra toward him, and it'll be bye bye for Shikamaru. Sakura, low-mid difficulty. How is it poor choice of words? Without releasing the Mark on her forehead how is sakura gonna summon Katsuyu? And two now you are the one who is underestimating Shikamaru. Shikamaru clearly restrained two God level entities to stalemate. They couldn't even break the jutsu and were forced to absorb it. So what chance Sakura has if She doesn't releases the 100 seals close to Zero.