Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-28614651-20200422182101/@comment-39350828-20200517230315

LegionZero wrote: If he was reacting to preparation and not the Light Fang itself he would have just bailed completely. For all he knew it could have been a Six Path Senjutsu Great Fire Annihilation. 1. This is just your speculation about how naruto would act

2. Naruto is only a rational actor to a certain extent 2.1: The small time he has to react is split between time he needs to use to make a decision and time he can use to act on that decision and he has a lot to consider 2.2: unless he was acting on reflexes in which case he still wouldn't be a rational actor 2.3: Narutoverse characters do tend to think on their feet but their actions in battle have not always been optimal in the series 2.4: The author also needs time to think of what the optimal move is if he's gonna have the character do it and for a small event like this that took less than a page I wouldn't assume he took time to consider things like that naruto should prepare for the possibility of madara using a different attack than the one that he did.

3. In order for him to bail completely he has to have time to stop his momentum completely in midair and then change direction

4. If he's really FTL or just faster than a fire-style attack he shouldn't need to start bailing immediately since he would still have time to see what the attack is and then move away if necessary Either way he was shown reacting to the attack and not moving before the attack. He was shown after having reacted to the attack. We don't know exactly when naruto started moving If he was reacting to the attack prep he would have been more than capable of counter attacking 1. His regular attack failed. Why would he be more than capable of counterattacking if he's not capable of regular attacking

2. What do you think he was trying to do when he should've been reacting to madara's preparation? Not trying to attack madara? Why would knowing madara is preparing something and responding by trying to counterattack him be faster than just continuing in trying to normally attack him? or preventing the attack from launching in the first place Do you have any proof he could've done that? LegionZero wrote: The technique move at the speed of light and without a statement or showing that it was hindered in any way then to say it was is an assumption I'm really not assuming anything here. You're the one who needs to assume it got through the staff instantly in order to give him the feat. You seem to think that the writer wrote things expecting the reader to think that by default so he only needs to explain whether it did or didn't if it didn't. We were shown. Its right there on the page again the page doesn't show exactly when naruto started moving Thats not what i meant. Madara prepped and launched the attack fast enough that Naruto's sensory abilities didnt give him and an advantage the way they normally would. If that's not what you meant then I still don't know what you mean