Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20171206103000/@comment-734582-20171207175137

DXAshram wrote: People are forgetting that without the Sharingan, the Raikiri/Chidori is a completely impractical technique that is more likely to get you killed in combat, which is why after the Fourth Ninja War Kakashi retired it and moved on to his Purple Electricity technique. You can just edit quotes the same way you edit posts. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Kakashi is fast enough that applying Chidori to these kids isn't a problem if he wanted to, and else he'd be using Purple Lightning or whatever. Point is, he isn't using lethal techniques and so it's not serious. Nor is it intended to be serious, this isn't the Blood Mist. And as others have mentioned by now, none of those headbands have been removed. Vladosaurus wrote: My point is that the movie made little sense. Boruto didn't need to rely on the Kote for neither of his battles. Boruto didn't rely on the Kote because he had to. He relied on the Kote because Katasuke made him rely on the Kote. Rather than train his techniques and prepare his strategies, he knew he could just use the kote to get out of any problem. And he did. Against Bubble Guy he briefly considered throwing a real Shuriken before relying on the Kote. He didn't even try his own power. Katasuke told him that the Kote was everything he desired (namely, attention from his father) and so Boruto began to rely on it. This is also the point that Ao and others make, namely that the tech in itself isn't evil, you just shouldn't rely on it. Or as Tony stark put it, "if you're nothing without the suit, you shouldn't have it".

Boruto was already shown to be complacent and easygoing, and it looks like it's only getting worse.

Now, you're right in that the context change, and so the interpretation changed. (Or rather, in the absence of context we simply assumed a context). Boruto cheated because he didn't take things serious enough, because to him everything is just a game and there's always a retry.