Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34938099-20180521045158/@comment-30323490-20180528112057

Ok, is it a misconception that the rinnegan grants its user taijutsu skills or something? Because it does not. If you have rinnegan eyes and you fight only with taijutsu, you may as well have normal eyes, because the rinnegan would be useless.

Sasuke would have the upper hand in a taijutsu battle against base Naruto without the shadow clones simply because since he has the sharingan and with it better reflexes and movement reading. On top of Sasuke being faster than base Naruto. You can argue that Naruto is physically stronger and he does have higher stamina, but ultimately he would lose to Sasuke in taijutsu if he is in base and doesn`t use some shadow clones. It`s not that Naruto wouldn`t be able to keep up with him, but he would most likely loose when it`s all set and done. That`s my take on it and i believe it`s reasonable enough.

Also Sasuke did not jump when Naruto punched him near the end of VOTE2.Naruto sent him flying on his own.