Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26388300-20160325102110/@comment-9782468-20160411205733

The Rasengan is a really cool jutsu.

I wish more jutsus required handseals though. Like, it seemed in the beginning that it was required to use them for some jutsu, but nope. Turns out if you're skilled enough you can eliminate most of them.

Makes me wonder why Minato even bothered creating the Rasengan, when he could have just learned some other jutsu to the point of using one or no handseals to create it. Even Kakashi can use Raikiri without hand seals at this point.

If hand seals were more required, it'd make Ninjutsu more of a finishing move with Taijutsu being the main cambat form in fights, which would be great.