Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32466165-20170722022140/@comment-5085906-20170818142925

Hungry Ghost realm wrote: The terming was vague in the war when could the rinnegan use genjutsu?Nagato was the best user yet he couldnt use genjutsu and worse had zero defense against it. Zetsu said "his rinnegan" not "rinnegan" madara said " his sasuke's eye would match me perfectly" what?doesnt madara already have two rinnegans?Why did he crave sasuke's eye? There are a lot of mistranslations + japanese can get vague at times + sasuke stated"my powers have returned when the tomoe reappeared I debunked your skepticism now Ravenslot you din' debunk shit n you don' research fo' shit Here's what you said. You suggested that Madara was craving Sasuke's eye even though Madara had TWO RINNEGANS which I said it's false, 'cause Madara only had one Rinnegan at that point. No one suggested that Madara's forehead eye was anything other than a Rinne-Sharingan. But the two eyes in his sockets were Rinnegan. The difference is that the Rinne-Sharingan is red (the color of a sharingan) and has nine tomoe. Sasuke's Six Paths' Rinnegan is purple (like the color of the Rinnegan) and has six tomoe. Because the Rinne-Sharingan is the progenitor of the two dojutsu then it maintains characteristics of both - and because Sasuke's Sharingan evolved into a Rinnegan due to Six Paths chakra, then it is a little bit different to the modern Rinnegan that Madara awakened via body modifications.

Momoshiki's Rinnegan for example is red, the color of a Sharingan, and doesn't have any tomoe which is something that hadn't been witnessed until the Boruto manga. That doesn't make it a Sharingan, though. It just means that because Momoshiki belongs to the same clan as Kaguya, he has awakened a more authentic and individual version of it.

And to clarify, the forehead eye wasn't Nagato's eye. The two Rinnegans that Madara shared with Obito were the eyes that Madara originally awakened then gave to Nagato as a child. He needed the two eyes and Juubi power to awaken the Rinne-Sharingan.