Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-5233512-20150328123717/@comment-5233512-20150329043414

Munchvtec wrote: At the time he appeared he had a large amount yes, more so then the average jonin but Is he on par with senju or uzumaki? I'd personally say no way.

On another note, Zabuza never did exhaust his chakra in that intense fight against Team 7 in Part 1, so I guess we will never know his true capabilities.

Umishiru wrote: Zabuza is a victim of power creep.

Sadly, that is very true. :/

Power Creep in general (including the various abilities of the Rinnegan all the way to Kaguya's appearance) is without a doubt my second least favourite aspect of the series behind Summoning techniques.

GreatestSin wrote: didnt he gain it because he was so incredible strong? (before the powerlvls went to impossible lvls),

I don't think there is anything to "gain" here in terms of the amount of chakra.

I believe that visible chakra shroud is due to his amount of chakra and not a technique of any sort. However, I suppose he was either born with a huge chakra reserve or trained himself to get that amount of chakra.

GreatestSin wrote: compared to the chakra lvls of the chars in part2, zabuzas are actually quite low, i mean, if he wouldnt have been a zombie in his second fight with kakashi than im pretty sure he would be unable to do anything against kakashi ^_^ afterall as zombie his chakra reserves had been infinite (at least from what madara said) ^_^

For Edo Tensei, I believe it is the replenishing that is infinite whilst your maximum chakra reserve stays the same as when you were once alive.

What I mean is that if one is alive and has 100 units of chakra as his or her maximum reserve, then that is what the Edo Tensei will have as well. However, the Edo Tensei has the capability to forever keep that peak level of chakra whereas the real shinobi would use up all of it.

So if a jutsu uses 50 units of chakra, the real person could only cast it twice whilst the Edo Tensei could infinitely spam it. To continue, if a jutsu uses 100 units of chakra, the real person could only cast it once with the Edo Tensei not needing to worry about having a cool-down. Though if a jutsu uses 150 units of chakra, no matter how quickly the Edo Tensei can replenish that chakra, he or she does not have enough reserves to cast it in the first place.