Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-33727162-20171121221649/@comment-1458758-20171122011828

In fiction, a plot hole, plothole or plot error is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.

For example, it would be a plot hole if, for whatever reason, the upper level ninja in Konoha were unaware or uninvolved in this crisis and didn't try to resolve it, but they did, Naruto himself actively attempting to resolve it when Nue appeared.

In this case, Naruto activated his chakra cloak, not sage mode, in order to attack Nue, and was warned not to because it might absorb his chakra and grow bigger/explode. This is sound logic, don't feed the thing that will get stronger and more volatile.

Even assuming he thought of using Sage mode to attack, lets look at the logistics of that.

Sage mode has to hold still to create sage chakra. In regards to Pain's Preta Path, he had Naruto in a headlock and absorbed his chakra. Naruto used this to his advantage to feed the Preta Path sage chakra that caused it to become a petrified toad.

Nue aborbed chakra by eating/attacking people and was the size of several buses stacked on top of each other. Needless to say, the hold still and let it over eat is not a sound method of combating that and attacking it plainly in sage mode would not guarantee either being able to do enough damage or feed it enough sage chakra to petrify it.

The long and short of it is, Naruto's vast power and ability was actually a detriment to him in this case as it also made him a huge liability if Nue managed to absorb his chakra.