Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26940724-20160308232944/@comment-9782468-20160310171741

@Rachin yeah but he did fight her. He fought her with the battle tactics and strategies that he knew best. Obviously Tayuya would have won, but Shikamaru came very close to beating her.

Yes, he ran and hid. But that's really his battle-style. He doesn't really have the battle prowess to go toe to toe with most other powerful Shinobi, so he runs and hides til he can finish them in one move if possible.

The only people who won their fight with the Sound Four were Neji and Choji. Choji won because he got to be a hundred times more powerful than he was, and Neji won because not only was he a very smart Shinobi, but he had a lot of fighting skill to back him up. Shikamaru got reasonably far on basically his intelligence alone.