Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31099706-20170316100429/@comment-31278419-20170415203215

Kishimoto and a bunch of other shonen writers have this bad habit of making things that should be strong super irrelevant. Truth be told looking back on the Konoha crush battles Gaara's transformation into Shukaku was kinda underwhelming considering Naruto stopped him. Yes it was a threat, but so many ninja were stronger then Naruto at that point in the village and Gaara was so exposed atop of its head that it would have been child's play for many of the named jonin to get at him. Gai could have instantly shut that down with a flying kick to the everything. Compared to the ninetails appearing in just four tails mode he was capable of less damage by a large margin.