Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-26090730-20170510155917/@comment-734582-20170512055339

Elveonora wrote: He wasn't really fighting at full strength as stated at the end of the episode. He wasn't thinking rationally, so not really fighting tactically or using his powers effectively. They would have lost had they been enemies engaging non-controlled Shino This episode made me think: Does this entity really want to kill people? It possesses people by apparently using their negative emotions against them. Doesn't it make sense that this being would then simply try to break Boruto's team to possess him next?

Even this possessed-shino technically won, by the way. Had the possession not been broken by the lightning attack, he would've been able to still summon this giant bug and kill the three kids. Even after Mitsuki's suicide attack (because that was basically what it was), Shino was in a better shape than all of the kids.