Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170211023835/@comment-31278419-20170211052036

Being level headed helps in a fight yes, but Sakura had no business being in the chuunin exam. She was nowhere near ready to be a chuunin at that point. None of them where save Shikimaru. Sakura could somewhat reign Naruto in, but she had little to no control over Sasuke.

What Sasuke really needed was a therapist to help him with his emotional trauma. Kakashi is cool, but he's not a therapist. Also since her chakra control was already so good, Sakura should have been learning her affinity far earlier. I don't recall what her official element was, but any of them would have been useful for her to know a basic justu in.If Kisimoto wanted Sakura to be more support for them he should have given her Earth release since it has the most utility. Or better yet, made Sakura the genjutu type she was said to be.

Naruto should have been receiving special training before he was even on a team since he is the leaf's tailed beast. I'll never understand why they thought letting an untrained abused child run around with essentially a living WMD was a good idea. Out of all the teachers Kakashi seemed to lag behind the others when it came to their teams. Sure they had their favored students, but Might Guy trained Neji and Tenten enough that physically they were far above their peers. Lee may have been his main focus, but even Tenten was still likely far superior stamina and taijutsu wise then the average konoha genin or even chuunin.

If the konoha 12 had a team fight before Naruto and Sasuke went god mode I'm pretty sure that pre-shippuden team 7 would lose to every team fairly easily, barring intervention of Naruto going ninetails. They could possibly beat team Asuma, but I still have my doubts since Sakura get taken out in every situation pretty quick.