Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24949639-20140528135926/@comment-2089817-20140528214143

TheUltimate3 wrote: And yet the point of a ninja squad, as in here, is to play by everyone's strengths.

Kakashi may be more or less crippled here, but he has a tacticians mind, something far better than Sakura and Sasuke (Naruto is not mentioned for obvious reasons).

Sakura's physical strength with the Strength of a Hundred Seal is enough to not make her defenseless, with the added bonus of, unless Madara literally takes off her head, she ain't dying. But her primary use is to make sure the others don't die as well.

Sasuke, is the only one who can see Madara's clones in limbo (though Naruto can sense them, he can't actually see them), but his primary use now is to somehow stop the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Naruto...ok functionally Naruto is just a brick wall. Strategy wise, he is only useful in keeping the limbo clones off of everyone else.

I believe three of them have the ability to hurt Madara (Sakura's raw strength, Naruto's senjutsu, I have no idea why Sasuke can hurt Madara now but I suppose he can), it now just becomes of matter of putting everyone to use.

All that said, Kakashi and Sakura are most likely gonna sit a lot of this battle out because let's face it, Kishimoto is kinda boring.

Kakashi's tactician mind hasn't proved useful this entire war, much less now that Madara has become the Shinju's Jinchuuriki. Furthermore, let's entertain the thought for a moment that Kakashi's strategic abilities were useful in this fight. In the words of Sun Tzu, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." Kakashi is a victim of the middle statement. Without an ability to perceive the Rinnegan's abilities, like Rinbo: Hengoku, nor knowledge of the Rinnegan beyond what he learned in the fight against Nagato and the Six Paths of Pain, NOR any real knowledge about the Shinju other than what Naruto and Sasuke already know, Kakashi's strategic mind is arguably rendered pointless for this fight. And, as I've said, Ninjutsu against Madara's Truth-Seeking Balls go nowhere.

You just proved my point with Sakura. "Sakura's physical strength with the Strength of a Hundred Seal is enough to not make her defenseless." Well, that's wonderful. Then she can take a back seat and heal Naruto or Sasuke if they get wounded. That's still useless in the actual fight against Madara though. In terms of offensive capabilities, Sakura is useless against him. TSUNADE, Sakura's teacher and the master of the Strength of a Hundred Seal, was useless against Madara, and this was Madara before returning to his real body and before he became the Shinju's Jinchuuriki. What makes you think Sakura is so much better than Tsunade to the point that she proves useful against an enemy that is even stronger than the enemy her own teacher couldn't even seriously wound, even with the help of 4 Kage. Not to mention, besides brute strength, Sakura's Taijutsu prowess is little more than subpar, so even assuming she could get in close enough to land a solid blow, assuming she magically avoids both Madara's shadows and doesn't get hit by his Truth-Seeking Balls, he'll just heal again and it won't lead to anything.

In sum, the "point of a ninja squad is to play by everyone's strengths" argument is cute and all, but when you have two members of a four-man-squad that would hinder the team effort more so than actually support it, you have a serious problem. Kakashi was absolutely right in saying Sasuke should be the one leading Team 7 in that instance, since he was the only one smart enough to realize that rather than succumb to the emotional paradigm of teamwork. In this case, teamwork is best left to Naruto and Sasuke. Kakashi should simply remain out of this fight, and Sakura should remain on standby in case a healing-nin is necessary, but not engaged in the fight. It's extremely reckless for a healing-nin, scratch that, the currently only CONSCIOUS healing-nin to engage an enemy she has absolutely no chance of legitimately injuring, let alone defeating, at the cost of depriving the team of the only healing item they have.