Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-34938099-20180807075632/@comment-31099706-20180810022902

Starscream1998 wrote: Those are couple of in-universe explanations I can think of as to why none of the six paths of pain can utilise basic ninjutsu. No, they can perform ninjutsu other than the Six Paths, like the Shadow Clone Jutsu the animal Path did and the Rain Sensing jutsu the deva path did. Starscream1998 wrote: Didn't Jiraiya say something along the lines of him mastering all 5 basic nature transformations at the age of 10 (may be a little off here) so it's not like Nagato is completely inadequate when it comes to basic ninjutsu. I am aware of that. But that was so far the only feat mentioned from him about Ninjutsu, and it came from the Rinnegen too, not exactly pure talent when you put it like that. In terms of basic ninjutsu, thanks to the Rinnegen he can use all five of the Elemental jutsus, but that doesn't mean his application with it, is equal to the talent and mastery of Sasuke, Madara, Kakashi and such. Like, take a simple fire ball jutsu, Madara and Sasuke have so far shown their raw power in chakra by overpowering even water Release jutsus with it. And have also shown to use it in ways for tricks that their opponent never thought of. Kakashi is now talented and tricky with his Ninjutsu, he doesn't exactly have the same extent of power to the others, but his mastery and cleverness makes it up for it. Dev1656 wrote: @BlazeRelease Nagato Uzumaki is a beast. It took MS EDO Itachi, Killer Bee, and KCM Naruto to even mess with Nagato. Nagato is the strongest EDO other than Madara imo. Add all the rinnegan's abilities to one human with a mind and you have Nagato. Indeed, Nagato is a beast, but only with the Rinnegen. Without it, he's just plain rich in Chakra and has mastery over five Elemental release jutsus and other jutsus that he probably isn't used to, due to him always using his Rinnegen techniques for the few battles he does. The main characters, have always been using Ninjutsu they learned, and further developed it to another level.

The thing is, Nagato's uniqueness is his Rinnegen. He hasn't shown any beast level superiority over any other Ninjutsu. And that is the reason I think he doesn't use basic Ninjutsu.