Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-27662856-20180316054643/@comment-30207214-20180423110008

Weird argumentations and clearly people riding on the Sharingan, which was actually obvious. Byakugan didn't even get nearly as much attention as the Sharingan. The Byakugan is obviously superior and here is the reason why:

The Byakugan has a diameter vision of a nearly 360 degree, that blindspot were just 2 people able to use, the first one being Kidomaru who summoned a spider and was continuesly attacking/barraging Neji and had complete control over his missiles (arrows) and Sakura against Kaguya, just was Kaguya fighting 3 Shinobi that were Demigod lvl. As Ace stated already, if we consider the blindspot of the Byakugan as a weakness, then has the Sharingan the same weakness and at a bigger extend. The vision of the Sharingan is limited to those of normal eyes, as in "no 360 degree vision". Kakashi even stated, that the Byakugan's insight is superior to that of the Sharingan and it was seen that the Byakugan can follow high speed movements, which was seen in Chapter 85. That is an equivalent to the reading capabilities of the Sharingan!

The Sharingan making visual Genjutsu possible is an amazing feat, the Byakugan has a comparable feat though. It can extend the range of Genjutsu, the prove is in Chapter 671 and that it can see through Genjutsu can be seen in Chapter 394, 459 and 461 too.

Let's come to the superior chakra vision of the Byakugan, while the Sharingan can see chakra, can the Byakugan see the Chakra Pathway System and even differentiate ones chakra from the other. The Byakugan allowing you to see the Tenketsu Points is actually an amazing feat, as by blocking those, can you make your opponent stop using any kind of jutsu. Be it dojutsu like the Sharingan, normal jutsus like for example the Fireball Jutsu, Senjutsu/Sage Mode, Genjutsu too and even the Gates. Mukai, someone who wasn't even trained by the Hyuga was able to use the insight of the Byakugan to split a jutsu like the Fireball Jutsu apart (in Itachi Shinden: Book of Bright Light) + was it stated, that the Gentle Fist can break through every of chakra made substance in Chapter 193.

So the Byakugan+Gentle Fist is basicly an anti-jutsu combo, that can be even left unaffected by visual Genjutsu, by closing their eyes and activate their x-ray vision.

Copying jutsus is cool and all, but negating jutsus and even being able to take the possibility from the opponent to actually use chakra... The Byakugan is in my opinion superior there. I would rather stop my opponent from doing anything, than being able to copy their movements.

[One might say that I stated facts that require the Byakugan+Gentle Fist, but copying a jutsu requires the training of the body and senses AND mastery of the jutsus element.]

Next is the a bit not really known stuff, it was actually implied by Neji, that he can read the people's mind at some extent. Let me citate Neji from Chapter 78 : "I have seen through many things with this Byakugan", activates afterwards his Byakugan and starts to read every single movement of Hinata and states what it means. At Chapter 99 is he doing the same to Naruto and he started to do it, when his Byakugan was on... Later on did we see in Episode 461, that Kaguya was able to read Hamura's mind with the Byakugan. We saw Hiashi doing the same to Boruto -> https://youtu.be/CrZ9Oi66hYY (In Chapter 102 was something similar seen by Hiashi against Hizashi) AND Momoshiki was able to read Boruto's fate with the Byakugan, so it wouldn't that much out of the blue to consider that theory.

I am gonna make a list of abilities and capabilities now:

SHARINGAN: -can see chakra -can calculate the movements of the opponent -can copy movements and jutsus -visual genjutsu

VS

BYAKUGAN: -can see chakra a better extent and is able to see the Chakra Pathway System -can follow high speed movements - grants almost a 360 degree vision -grants x-ray vision -can stop the opponent from using jutsu/chakra -can break every of chakra made substance -can extent the range of genjutsu (and can maybe even read the mind of an opponent and read the fate of people...)

If we go by evolution, Tenseigan grants Truth Seeking Balls. Tenseigan>Rinnegan