Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-35024407-20180502194801/@comment-6036561-20180503122259

As one of the people who are "complaining" about Konohamaru, I must admit that there is nothing wrong with his powers... he seems to be a decend jonin, with a decend set of skills... There are mainly three "problems" with Konohamaru, imho.

The first one is that we are used to jonin who are basically Kage level... we "grew up" with Kakashi, Gai and Asuma, who are in a different league than the normal jonin (forget poor Kurenai). Compared with them, Konohamaru is weaker but he is by no means worthless of the title of jonin.

The second one is the hype we got for him from the Pain assault. He learnt to use the rasengan at a young age - I think younger than Naruto was when Jiraiya taught him - and also the shadow clone, and he could kill one of the paths of Pain. Given this, the fact that he is the self-proclaimed rival of Naruto and the grandson of Hiruzen/nephew of Asuma, we all probably thought that he would be kage level.

The third one is that he is, until now, underused. He did basically nothing, both in the Boruto movie, in the pre-chuunin exam arcs and also in the Mujina/Ao arcs. And I think that is the main problem. Kodachi is focusing all the attention on Boruto, and this means that the other characters has to be in some way removed from the fight... and this translates into really bad performances from Konohamaru.

To come back in topic... how to fix his strength, a.k.a. how to make him look better? I would exclude giving him Monkey summoning - since he already has the frogs - and also Sage Mode. To me, there are two main ways that Kodachi could fix him:  Giving him some new jutsu, and not only what he learnt/copied from Naruto. Maybe some combination jutsu with the frogs, or some wide-scale fire release jutsu Making him actually do something. Or at least don't have him lose in such a quick and dumb way. I'm not saying that he should have defeated Kashin Koji, but the way he lost was too fast and too dumb for a jonin. 

Basically, he need to have more space and be more a protagonist in the show, and not only a side character who is there only because by the rules of the Naruto world Boruto still need a supervising jonin for his team.