Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-34194151-20180107091407/@comment-734582-20180108065202

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: Not necessarily. A lot of it is. Ranging from buying time for his shadows in the chunin exams, making teams according to merit, accounting for people's abilities easily. It doesn't take an IQ of 200 to think of such things.

In general, intelligence in naruto is overstated, often pretended to be higher than it really is.