Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30830650-20170116074632/@comment-9782468-20170122172412

@Lorenzo, by nature of the Shadow Clone technique, each clone has an equal amount of chakra; you can't pick and choose how much chakra you give them.

Also, chakra doesn't replenish by itself fast enough in a fight to be a viable way to extend your stamina. Even moulding chakra. And if Jiraiya makes a clone to try and gather and balance Nature Energy for him, Team 7 would take the clone out.

This is a 3 on 3 fight. None of them will be able to make clones to just send off and gather chakra for them while they fight, the other team would kill em. Besides, even Naruto could only leave 2 or 3 clones to gather Nature Energy while he fought, because even as a Perfect Sage and a master Kage Bunshin user, it required too much concentration to balance the energy properly. Jiraiya isn't even good at balancing the energy, and he's not as good as Naruto with Kage Bunshin