Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26636534-20171019193715/@comment-35622277-20171020033727

Yes, because there are bad strategies, and there are good ones.

How well they are thought out, it's level of complexity, and how the person reacts to and alters his/her strategy in the event something goes wrong, all that is important.

Book-smarts, experience, wisdom, quick-thinking, creativity, it's all these things combined that make an intelligent person. You also need to know how your enemy thinks, to anticipate their move while planning for a strategy that can potentially counter their's.

It's all of these things that make a genius tactician, and what sets them apart from average people.

Using this as an argument is kind of pointless as the result can vary depending on who is being fought. It's just used because the person arguing wants whoever to win have some kind of advantage, and their argument starts to fall flat if they begin to see it as their only point.

You can't really say Madara outsmarted Onoki or any of the 5 Kage in battle, as the sheer power difference alone was the deciding factor. So it's pretty needless to use it as an argument if the character is in a different tier altogether.

You can also say the same for characters of the same power-level, as Madara has never really outsmarted Naruto / Sasuke in a battle. He didn't even want to chance it, and decided to launch Infinite Tsukuyomi instead, hoping they would fall under it's effects. He took the safe route, anticipating it would be effective, however was countered by Sasuke who theorized his Rinnegan enhanced Susanno could cancel it out.

So Sasuke outsmarted Madara trying to outsmart him. Yep.