Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26388300-20150718023043/@comment-26675690-20150718143532

I agree with the Neji not living up to his Part 1 hype in Shippuden, he should've been as good as, if not slightly stronger than, Sasuke without the CS. Also Kakashi was a serious let down after seeing his backstory. I mean he was Chunin at 6 and Jonin at 12, going by that growth rate he should have been S-rank long before Part 1. And after the time skip all he got was Kamui which he could use twice a day without being crippled and even then he still sucked with it. Naruto should've gotten a lot stronger during his training trip with Jiraiya since once he got back he makes an S-rank jutsu, one-shots an S-rank ninja that same day, beat someone who, a few seconds prior, wiped out the village, after beating most of its ninja with ease, in the span of 15 mins and, worst of all, learns Sage mode in a week.

Honestly these random/inconsistent growth rates is what I would have liked to have been fixed/shown consistently throughout the series because it just throws everything out of whack otherwise.