Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5273810-20150721161252/@comment-26005711-20150813124510

BakumatsuWarrior wrote: Well that depends on whether P1 Guy had mastered at least up to the seventh gate to use Hirudora (or Morning Tiger or whatever it's called). In all likelihood I think P1 Guy had mastered at least Hirudora. If he had then he stomps P1 Kakashi easily. I think the reason we don't see Guy using the Eight Gates in Part 1 is because of plot. I guess almost upto mid-Shippuden Kishi wanted to focus more on stunting Naruto's development by limiting him to Kage Bunshin and Rasengan, while giving lots of cool buffs to Sasuke. A jutsu such as Hirudora would have been too OP for Part 1. So Kishi saved the Seventh and Eight Gates techniques for part 2. Maybe, but we didn't see that.