Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170915213819/@comment-734582-20170916112032

Vladosaurus wrote: And i think in general Naruto had trouble controlling his chakra thanks to Kurama. Nope. There's not a shred of evidence Naruto had trouble controlling his own chakra. Orochimaru's hastily-applied 5-element-seal was screwing him up, but otherwise it was just Naruto's lack of talent and proper training. Vladosaurus wrote: As far as the best teacher goes, i don't know. You can put Guy i guess, but i'm not sold on him. Kakashi at least made Sasuke a beast for the third round. I don't think Kakashi was a great teacher, but IMHO none of the K12 teachers were. It also seems to me that Kakashi knew his own shortcomings and hence set Naruto up with a different trainer. And while Ebisu had mostly the role of buttmonkey, what little we saw of him showed that he was indeed a good trainer, and that kakashi's decision was indeed correct.

Though i think that of all the teachers, kakashi was dealt the worst hand. Kakashi was a highly-skilled and intelligent assassination ninja. Sasuke's style fit closest to him, but Naruto and Sakura aren't even remotely similar in pretty much ANY way. Naruto is more of a street smarts and Sakura more of a book smarts type, completely different frm the other two. Asuma's rather generalist style fits his team rather well, the same for Guy's taijutsu focus being good for a Gentle Fist / Tajutsu/Weapons composition.