Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25643824-20170907153936/@comment-30323490-20170907164747

@Thekillman Well, yes, but the Statue would drain life from any summoner, not Nagato's in particular. So it doesn't count as a drawback, at least not in the sense that he is using the rinnegan with drawbacks.I mean let's be honest, he handled the 6 paths of Pain flawless.With the Deva Path, when trully pushed, he wiped out the entire leaf village, and even after that he still controlled the other 5 paths without any problems.After that hard battle with Naruto, he was still powerful enough to pull a CT.For me, Nagato is the only rinnegan user who truly mastered it and exploited it at its fullest (Except Hagormo of course, but he is featless). And he did all of that while being in a wheelchair as well...

@Ninjachris The reason why Nagato was in that particular state was because of his fight with Hanzo, and him drastically damaging his legs.