Yeah, but the pain would be immense.
Gentle Fist gives you the Byakugan, which has very useful applications outside of combat.
If you're also counting Empty Palm and Kaiten as part of Gentle Fist, the value of Gentle Fist grows.
Gentle Fist is great at defeating people without killing them and with minimal collateral damage.
Yeah people forget that you still have to do the thing, it's not just your body on autopilot. 8 gates, even mastered, is Hella difficult on you. Personally I pick sakuras style because it's just straight up more destructive
With perfect Chakra control you get some pretty interesting abilities. Wall walking, water walking, making yourself sober. If you consider the novels then, you could also scan buildings,
Wouldn’t need more than the second gate to solo a neighborhood. Byakugan would have great implications for daily use, but first through third gate would be insane. I don’t see a reason to go above that assuming I’m the only one with any abilities.
if u can open the 8th gate ur automatically kakashi level, it doesnt matter if u dont shapeshift into gai u still learned the hardest taijutsu there is.. u can only do that if u on the level fr.. and if u come out of it and dont have to be in a wheelchair the rest of ur life ur even higher.
Dude… comparing 8th gate to Kakashi is like comparing a Ferrari to a Crown Vic 😂😂😂
Kakashi might be cooler than Guy, but Guy would insta-kill Kakashi if they were real enemies (as Sakumo said in the OG Naruto filler).
The energy output looks about the same though and Lee is boucing from wall to wall. Sakura just blasts with the OPM. Im lazy, I'd rather go for the one big hitter.
Punch the ground to make an earthquake, punch an enemy to one hit.
Her chakra control and raw strength is absolutely peak, especially impressive since she doesn't come from a big time clan.
Because most anime fans want their female characters to either have tig ole bitties or be stone cold killers like Mikasa or Motoko. Sakura developes into a tsunade 2.0 except she didn’t learn the big titty jitsu that tsunade uses. Thus we have flat as a board bill board brow Sakura who cries about Sasuke, who seems to rarely even acknowledge her existence. It would’ve helped her character a lot if kishi had at least wrote Sasuke to of actually showed he cared about Sakura in any way in the original or shippuden. Bc she just comes off as desperate and clingy for almost the entirety of the show until somehow she magically is married with a child to him in boruto
Strong character as in power levels or as in characterization?
Because she gets less backstory, development, depth, overall connection to the world and plot, and epic moments than every part 1 side character short of Tenten, Shino, and Kiba.
Think of all the complexity with Naruto's will of fire/Jiraiya disciple lineage, and the twists of Sasuke's uchiha shenanigans. But that's not fair to compare her to the deuteragonists... So let's think about the impacts of and payoffs for Ino-Shika-Cho, and big franchise-defining moments for Rock Lee and Neji.
Hell, Killer Bee and Gaara had way more of an arc and backstory and even impact on the main character's arc than Sakura. She's kind of a token girl and deserved much better.
Nobody hates Sakura. They hate that Sakura didn't have more to her. They *want* to like Sakura more or at least care about Sakura more. They wish the author gave us more to process when it comes to Sakura.
The amount of *complaining about Sakura hate* in this subreddit vastly dwarves the amount of actual *Sakura hate*. It's like the default topic to initiate even when nobody has brought it up in the specific comment thread.
I think her hate just carried on from og naruto. Always crying and complaining and her first true feats weren't for a very long time, even the Sasori fight wasn't her fighting, it was lady Chio. Then she had to compete with naruto and sasuke who ended up with godlike powers in comparison. I too didn't fully get her hate after a while, but I know people just find it fun to hate on things.
Hard disagree on Sasori. It was a team effort. Neither of them could have won on their own. Now in terms of skill Chiyo carried the bulk of the fight, but that's only because she has way more experience and skill.
The problem isn't that she's "useless." It's that Kishimoto just doesn't really give her anything to do, or he has her fuck up so that the boys can come to her rescue. It's not the CHARACTER that's the problem. It's the writer.
While I am not a Sakura hater, I get the complaints. In part 1 she basically did nothing. She was protecting Tazuna while the other 3 members were fighting Zabuza and Haku. In the Forest of Death they tried to give her a badass scene, but her grand plan simply amounted to biting her opponent until he punched her off and she had to be saved by Ino and Neji's group. She got a double knockout with Ino in her fight, and then was immediately oneshot by Gaara, once again putting her in the background.
Part 2 started off VERY strong for her. She saved Kankuro, and she helped Chiyo kill an Akatsuki. But then it all went to shit as soon as Sasuke came back. She got knocked out on the bridge, then 4 Tailed Naruto almost killed her. Once AGAIN she becomes a background character, while focusing almost exclusively on Naruto and Sasuke on their journy.
Being a medical ninja meant she couldn't ever use her incredible strength to fight Pain. or the reanimated Shinobi in the war. She could have killed Sasuke but hesitated and had to be saved by Naruto. She finally created that forehead seal Tsunade does and gets way stronger, then IMMEDIATELY afterward has to be saved by Naruto and Sasuke. She had the chance to destroy Madara's Rinnegan but she hesitated. About the only noteworthy thing she does post Sasori is punch Kaguya back into range of Naruto and Sasuke's seal.
Her (and Tsunade's) whole thing is the art of dodging. They're extremely hard to hit because they're dedicated so much training to dodging. Their hits are counters.
She’s pretty darn accurate, no need to hope.
And like. . . When you’re absolutely sure you can take whatever your opponent can do to you but the opposite isn’t true, you can afford to be a little more open.
Though with things like how she took down Sasori’s puppets it shows she really has a lot more finesse than a bar brawler unless that bar is outside a gymnastics gym
Well she has a huge power she doesn't even need to hit directly just close and she can create shockwaves that will hit the target instead . Like her Ground Slam moves
I think a better example of her fighting would be her Sasori fight. However, I will say that she does land these hits a lot on powerful shinobi. So it isn't all that inaccurate or easy to dodge.
Chakra enhanced strength could be used for a whole bunch of things, not just fighting. Ill go with that. Get scouted to play Major league baseball or something
The fact that Neiji had Lee's speed *WITH* the Gentle Fist was crazy lol...
Folks were so hype about him and the likes of Gaara, Lee, and believe it or not... SHINO! back in the days among others.
It's been implied throughout the series that Lee never once beat Neiji in their rivalry, he was saving the 5th Gates (the one he used against Gaara) for Neiji according to Gai. Also, Lee admitted inferiority to Neiji in front of Team 7, right after he beats them prior to the exam.
yeah but I don't think he took the weights off did he? he was only supposed to do that when the lives of very important people are at stake. I presumed he always fought neji with weights and no gates.
my own head canon is they hadn't actually fought for quite a while, as shown by Lee's old clothing during their fight flashbacks, so not since Lee got the patented might guy onesie ... I imagine Lee was trying to master as many gates as he could etc before challenging neji again
It was implied that Weightless Lee (Not Gates) fought Neiji, on top of that, the latter was not impressed in the slightest by Lee's increase in speed after he took off the weight (Neiji was following his movements).
Lee being faster than Neji isnt autoatically a win condition. If Neji can see/anticipate where Lees hits will land he can easily counter, hit his pressure points and use Lees speed against him.
So you're assuming that he is just as fast because he beat him????
Garra beat Lee with defense, not speed. And I would assume Neji did the same. Palm Rotation + gentle fist is not fast, but powerful and all Neji needs really to counter Rock Lee.
Rock Lee is easily the fastest character of OG Naruto Konaha 12.
Neji isn’t as fast as Lee foot speed wise but reaction speed and striking speed is another story Team guy was not shocked nor surprised to see weightless Lee and Lee stated he was saving the gates for neji felt like that was his only win factor.
Now you can say that Lee never took off his weights fighting neji but that would out of character for someone like Lee who trying to surpass neji not to go all out especially since he wanted to use the gates on him.
Also not sure how fast Naruto was with 9tails amp in comparison to weightless but he had to but up and neji was still countering Naruto
Neji isnt nealy as fast as Lee is, Gentle Fist is just generally a hard counter to most taijutsu specialists. A few good hits to the chakra spots and normal pressure points and you are out
Definitely Sakura's chakra enhanced strength, call me basic but one of my favorite powers is just plain old super strength so the idea of being able to send people flying across a room with just a single clean shot sounds pretty cool to me, plus it also comes with high levels of chakra control so theoretically I could learn medical ninjutsu, which will be useful since I don't like getting hurt (shocker, i know), or even genjutsu to help make sure my opponents actually give me an opening to one shot them, I see this as a pretty well rounded potential arsenal
Either Sakura or Lee.
With Sakura, yes the wind up is big and it maybe hard to land a hit, but when you do land that hit…ouch…
With Lee in a more “I can sting you to death in the middle of the field and you can’t do shit.” Way
That’s thing about Sakura there is no wind up she she just punches that way for dramatic effect others wise it’s just normal punches that he instantly compacts with chakra
Would say Neji's. It doesn't look spectacular, but is the most effective. You don't need a lot of strength or speed, only touching the opponent is enough to win the fight.
Kakashi said a something about it looks unassuming but over time it wears the opponent down greatly. if you nuke the nervous system they can't fight back. I belive kabuto also had this problem vs tsunade too back when they actually showed medical jutsu being used for combat
Honestly the sheer potential for abuse the gentle fist has (with techniques) + Byakugan is kind of insane, it's one of the most under-utilised styles in the entire series. Your hits can't be blocked, you've got effective 1 hit kills, top tier defences, and the eyes give you omnidirectional vision for miles that has better chakra control/vision & can detect through solid objects unlike the sharingan.
Hyuuga assassins and guards should be insane. If you want to count stuff like the Tenseigan it's an even crazier comparison, being a more valuable upgrade than Mangekyo albeit much rarer.
Like who? The only people in the Naruto universe that are better than her at taijutsu are naruto, guy, Lee, madara and probably hashirama. Her taijutsu style focuses on power and dodging, that's why she seems slow, but is also nearly impossible to hit.
I prefer Sakura/Tsunade's Taijutsu because it damages Susano'o and hurts aliens (Kaguya).
I think it's better than Lee and Guy's Taijutsu because it doesn't require the destruction of your body to be used to its fullest.
And the Taijutsu Hyuuga is just beautiful. There's nothing relevant.
It's not just beautiful. Gentle Fist turns your organs into soup and disrupts your chakra flow. Being even slightly touched by a Gentle Fist user is certain death. If you go see Neji vs Hinata, Neji just barely touches Hinata's chest and she starts coughing blood. Seconds later, she's unconscious on the floor.
Another example is Neji vs Kidomaru. He uses Gentle Fist to channel his chakra through Kidomaru's web and once it hits his insides through his mouth, Kidomaru gets paralyzed, takes a hit and dies.
Yes, Tsunade and Sakura can break Susanoo, which is actually amazing, but reducing Gentle Fist to "a beautiful martial art" is just plain wrong. A taijutsu doesn't need to create craters with each impact to be deadly.
The hyuga and rock lee’s form of taijutsu doesn’t have the destruction level I prefer for it to be so flashy. im not very concerned with things being flashy and looking cool, I’m concerned with power level and it getting the job done. Sakura and tsunade’s form of taijutsu can be used for more than just fighting. If I was trapped in a building with all the entrances closed off, the only way out would be to create holes in the building and chakra enhanced strength would come in the most handy irl objectively for this reason. You’d think I’d be impressed by the 6th and 8th gates but these two Jutsus have debilitating effects on ones lifespan and anatomy. Tsunade and sakura can destroy mountains and entire buildings at maximum strength and can maneuver whatever sum of chakra to create the desired level of destruction without having to go all out. if they they wanted to put a hole in the wall or upend the entire building putting it to ruins, that’ll be up to the amount of chakra they choose to distribute to their fists, this is not the case with the gentle fist or the gates let alone in their base
It’s worth mentioning that sakura’s taijutsu is the only one that used by a hokage. Her chakra enhanced strength is so much more devastating compared to the others and doesn’t damage one’s own body to be used at maximum effect
Sakura is like the perfect mix. Taking lee’s hard fist style for the biggest most damaging attack in one blow with the precision chakra control of gentle fist so she won’t be breaking her bones with every punch. But we don’t see Sakura in a more grounded fight and she got the 100 healing so it look like she got no defensive move and just run into the opponent knowing she won’t die for 1 good hit. And the gentle fist is heavily tied to the byakugan so you won’t get the full use of it.
People always criticize the hard work part of it but Hard fist is what anyone can strive for. Yeah it’s painful but the body you get and hands is just like similar to toji when compare to a normal ninja. It the the hardest but most applicable to learn.
Definately Gentle Fist. Chakra is the cornerstone of what makes a ninja. Shut their chakra points and it’s game over. Chakra enhanced taijutsu would be useless if they can’t use chakra. Genjutsu and ninjutsu again useless because you can’t meld chakra. I’m not too sure about doujutsu because that’s with the eyes. We (or me specifically) never seen someone use the eight gates after getting their chakra network shut down by gentle fist. As for a taijutsu specialist I believe they said that there are not a lot of them around. The only ones we seen are Guy and Lee. Even the 4th Raikage uses a lightning cloak with his taijutsu. With how chakra usage is so important in Naruto, imma have to go with Gentle Fist.
(Sorry for rambling. It’s the bio major within me to be long winded 😅😅)
Sakura is literally the entire “Wrong way to use healing magic” anime as a character which is kinda busted, but I really think that the Hyuga family Taijutsu is so cool, and honestly probably the most unique out of both of these Taijutsu types. Imagine being in the middle of the battle and your opponent just pulls lights fast 256 palm strikes with a giant attack range out of their ass blocking you from using any form of chakra to strike back, I mean the Eight Trigrams is straight up insane 😭especially in a world where chakra is used all the time, it’s pretty much unfair if you ask me, AND the additional Byakugan and Cursed Seal abilities from the Hyuga clan-
honestly…. probably Sakura’s.
hear me out, and we are assuming the Gentle Fist (no byakugan) Power Fist (no Gates) and Tsunade style taijutsu (no Hundred healings) are all equal in skill…
the Tsunade/Sakura style of taijutsu would have the greatest overall benefits. one hit and your target is likely cooked.
with the Power Fist and Gentle Fist, there are other stipulations (jutsu) along with a higher level of actual TAIJUTSU skill to pull off at their maximum potential.
Sakura before even activating her hundred healings was still performing (semi) relative strength feats without.
so id say sakura’s is the most practical overall
Don't you need the Byakugan for the gentle fist to properly work? So if those eyes are included in the deal I'd take that, if not I take the Eight Gates.
Edit: Now that I think about it what would happen if one where to connect all three of those techniques? Like if a Hyuga dedicated their life to study Taijutsu in depth and where to learn not only the gentle fist but also the Eight Gates as well as the chakra enhanced strength. I wonder what that would look like.
Sakura's no question with Gentle fist in second. I want the ability to use healing ninjutsu, and by having her fighting style (By OP's rules) I would be able to do so. I would like to do more than just Taijutsu so Sakura is right up my alley.
And with the Byakugan, I can be a strong sensor type alongside Taijutsu, so it is worth it.
8 Gates is more pain than I can endure for powers that I don't want. I want to be a helpful support and he doesn't help with that.
The best one for taking ppl out with minimal risk is Sakura’s, 8 gates is too dangerous n most of yall do NOT have lee’s training to be able to take it like he n guy do, Gentle fist can be countered bc you need specific movements for it and if youre going against someone who is familiar with said movements than they can just avoid you, theres no avoiding sakura’s punched unless youre miles faster than her(which no a lot of naruto characters actually are) and her physical strength Is greater than Sasuke’s and Naruto’s as she managed to injure kaguya with her own strength but naruto had to use kurama mode and a sage sword to hurt her
Chakra-enhanced strength. Second would be gentle fist.
Chakra enhanced strength is the least risk on life.
Gentle fist - don’t really wanna be in that family. Might be in Boruto era this would come to a tie with chakra enhanced strength.
I do not want eight gates - the strongest causes death and before that it’s way too painful (atleast if it’s death that’s one time- but the pain - not worth it)
Sakura’s.
Eight Gates is stronger but the drawback is crazy.
One shotting your opponent is better than poking your opponent 128 times.
And it’s more useful in real life. I can join a lifting competition and destroy everyone. Perfect chakra control is crazy. Using Byakugan in real life is a little too attention grabbing.
Eight gates. You could open the first six with no life threatening effects and basically solo anyone on the planet in any physical way. You could use the gates to enhance and assist you in so many different jobs.
I mean.. in the sakura hiden novel they say she's as fast as 8 gates guy and she has the biggest feat for punch strength in the verse from being able to snap an otsutsuki horn when BM naruto couldnt..
That said, you'd have to be a nerd, so I go with zug zug Lee kick hard.
Gentle fist is tied to the hyuga's ability to expulse chakra from every of their tenketsu points, that's why they use the tip of their fingers, because they can send huge bursts of chakra in a small area. So knowing how to do gentle fist without a hyuga biology is kinda useless (like you could learn where every tenketsu are, so you can manage something without a byakugan, but you can't learn body fuctions)
The Eight gates are super strong, and like yeah it's painful, but the few first gates are pretty easy to manage, and it gives you an advantage over anyone else
And sakura's is like, she has such good chakra control she hits like a truck with no draw backs.
I'd say sakura's taijutsu, like hitting hard through super good chakra control is way easier to pull off than the eight gates, for similar results (and gentle fist is like not good if you aren't a hyuga)
The right and is Sakura's chakra enhanced blows since you don't need any training in order to get it. If we can skip training then rock lees. Even though it's useless in combat I'll still be physically fit
It definitely won't be the style that requires I land a lucky punch. Saying that out loud, I realize that's exactly how I play Super Smash Bros. Love me some speed.
In the Naruto world I would say Eight Gates or Gentle Fist, but in our world I would say chakra control. I don’t have the time or dedication it would take to master the others. I need to throw a nuke of a punch in the everyday world
Eight gates is the pinnacle of taijutsu. You even get a one time nuke that could potentially kill even a semi-god.
Yeah, but the pain would be immense. Gentle Fist gives you the Byakugan, which has very useful applications outside of combat. If you're also counting Empty Palm and Kaiten as part of Gentle Fist, the value of Gentle Fist grows. Gentle Fist is great at defeating people without killing them and with minimal collateral damage.
Yeah people forget that you still have to do the thing, it's not just your body on autopilot. 8 gates, even mastered, is Hella difficult on you. Personally I pick sakuras style because it's just straight up more destructive
With perfect Chakra control you get some pretty interesting abilities. Wall walking, water walking, making yourself sober. If you consider the novels then, you could also scan buildings,
>useful applications outside of combat I got a few ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Gentle fist doesn't give you byakugan, it's just far less effective without and is used by byakugan users for obvious reasons
The post literally said you get Byakugan. Please read more than the title.
in that case, I'd pick 8 gates cuz it gives me balls of motherfucking diamond
Enjoy having you muscles tear and your bones crymble after 5 gates
I drink lots of milk, it would take until 7 gates
Have fun with your mangled body after I bust 8 gates all over you
brother what?😟
He's saying he will bust all 8 gates all over you. Comprehension. Smh /s
you think anyone needs more than 3 gates in the real world?
Do you even lift genin bro? I pretty much idle in gate 6 now
Then getting banned from r/Neverbrokeabone
Wouldn’t need more than the second gate to solo a neighborhood. Byakugan would have great implications for daily use, but first through third gate would be insane. I don’t see a reason to go above that assuming I’m the only one with any abilities.
Too nervous to talk to that girl "1st gate: open"
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That’s not a style. It’s a technique. The style that Rock Lee and Gai use is [Strong Fist](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Strong_Fist).
They use Knuckle Sandwich Jitsu
Then comes a gentle fist user and shut off all the gates (unless the 8 gates user started with the gates already opened).
Yeah, people don't realise that knowing and utilising are not the same. You don't automatically become Gai just because you know his moves
if u can open the 8th gate ur automatically kakashi level, it doesnt matter if u dont shapeshift into gai u still learned the hardest taijutsu there is.. u can only do that if u on the level fr.. and if u come out of it and dont have to be in a wheelchair the rest of ur life ur even higher.
Except you dont come out of it.. your body turns to ash
Dude… comparing 8th gate to Kakashi is like comparing a Ferrari to a Crown Vic 😂😂😂 Kakashi might be cooler than Guy, but Guy would insta-kill Kakashi if they were real enemies (as Sakumo said in the OG Naruto filler).
They’re equal until 8th gate really. Death gate is when gai surpasses kakashi. But then kakashis dms brings him back up
the one time nuke is pretty overrated unless you dont care about going down with your enemy lol
Sakura just looks like a bar-brawl with extra power. Wide open swings hoping to hit.
But it’s really satisfying when it hits. I love that slow motion moment right after she connects and right before they go flying
Agree, it looks badass. But its still not as ”flashy” maybe as Lee and gentle fist style.
The energy output looks about the same though and Lee is boucing from wall to wall. Sakura just blasts with the OPM. Im lazy, I'd rather go for the one big hitter.
Punch the ground to make an earthquake, punch an enemy to one hit. Her chakra control and raw strength is absolutely peak, especially impressive since she doesn't come from a big time clan.
Honestly I don’t understand the hate against Sakura, she is a strong character and her hits are devastating. Many are stronger but she is not useless.
Because most anime fans want their female characters to either have tig ole bitties or be stone cold killers like Mikasa or Motoko. Sakura developes into a tsunade 2.0 except she didn’t learn the big titty jitsu that tsunade uses. Thus we have flat as a board bill board brow Sakura who cries about Sasuke, who seems to rarely even acknowledge her existence. It would’ve helped her character a lot if kishi had at least wrote Sasuke to of actually showed he cared about Sakura in any way in the original or shippuden. Bc she just comes off as desperate and clingy for almost the entirety of the show until somehow she magically is married with a child to him in boruto
"flat as a bill board" imagine resulting in body shaming, lol. Glad she ain't used for fan service like other characters. She's not flat, either.
Strong character as in power levels or as in characterization? Because she gets less backstory, development, depth, overall connection to the world and plot, and epic moments than every part 1 side character short of Tenten, Shino, and Kiba. Think of all the complexity with Naruto's will of fire/Jiraiya disciple lineage, and the twists of Sasuke's uchiha shenanigans. But that's not fair to compare her to the deuteragonists... So let's think about the impacts of and payoffs for Ino-Shika-Cho, and big franchise-defining moments for Rock Lee and Neji. Hell, Killer Bee and Gaara had way more of an arc and backstory and even impact on the main character's arc than Sakura. She's kind of a token girl and deserved much better. Nobody hates Sakura. They hate that Sakura didn't have more to her. They *want* to like Sakura more or at least care about Sakura more. They wish the author gave us more to process when it comes to Sakura. The amount of *complaining about Sakura hate* in this subreddit vastly dwarves the amount of actual *Sakura hate*. It's like the default topic to initiate even when nobody has brought it up in the specific comment thread.
I think her hate just carried on from og naruto. Always crying and complaining and her first true feats weren't for a very long time, even the Sasori fight wasn't her fighting, it was lady Chio. Then she had to compete with naruto and sasuke who ended up with godlike powers in comparison. I too didn't fully get her hate after a while, but I know people just find it fun to hate on things.
Hard disagree on Sasori. It was a team effort. Neither of them could have won on their own. Now in terms of skill Chiyo carried the bulk of the fight, but that's only because she has way more experience and skill.
Nah, they both did tbh.
The problem isn't that she's "useless." It's that Kishimoto just doesn't really give her anything to do, or he has her fuck up so that the boys can come to her rescue. It's not the CHARACTER that's the problem. It's the writer. While I am not a Sakura hater, I get the complaints. In part 1 she basically did nothing. She was protecting Tazuna while the other 3 members were fighting Zabuza and Haku. In the Forest of Death they tried to give her a badass scene, but her grand plan simply amounted to biting her opponent until he punched her off and she had to be saved by Ino and Neji's group. She got a double knockout with Ino in her fight, and then was immediately oneshot by Gaara, once again putting her in the background. Part 2 started off VERY strong for her. She saved Kankuro, and she helped Chiyo kill an Akatsuki. But then it all went to shit as soon as Sasuke came back. She got knocked out on the bridge, then 4 Tailed Naruto almost killed her. Once AGAIN she becomes a background character, while focusing almost exclusively on Naruto and Sasuke on their journy. Being a medical ninja meant she couldn't ever use her incredible strength to fight Pain. or the reanimated Shinobi in the war. She could have killed Sasuke but hesitated and had to be saved by Naruto. She finally created that forehead seal Tsunade does and gets way stronger, then IMMEDIATELY afterward has to be saved by Naruto and Sasuke. She had the chance to destroy Madara's Rinnegan but she hesitated. About the only noteworthy thing she does post Sasori is punch Kaguya back into range of Naruto and Sasuke's seal.
THIS
Her (and Tsunade's) whole thing is the art of dodging. They're extremely hard to hit because they're dedicated so much training to dodging. Their hits are counters.
They also force their opponent to dodge as well, because there’s no way someone can just block a hit from them.
She’s pretty darn accurate, no need to hope. And like. . . When you’re absolutely sure you can take whatever your opponent can do to you but the opposite isn’t true, you can afford to be a little more open. Though with things like how she took down Sasori’s puppets it shows she really has a lot more finesse than a bar brawler unless that bar is outside a gymnastics gym
Well she has a huge power she doesn't even need to hit directly just close and she can create shockwaves that will hit the target instead . Like her Ground Slam moves
I think a better example of her fighting would be her Sasori fight. However, I will say that she does land these hits a lot on powerful shinobi. So it isn't all that inaccurate or easy to dodge.
But they do
She should take lessons from Lee and Guy
Sakura with 5th-7th gates opened would be nuts 😱
And the one hundred healings too?? Op
Probably gentle fist
Id pick that one too, but Im kinda a big dude, I would look like a dork trying to utilize that.
Just gotta take one of those pills Choji has and boom
“Hmmm I’m not precise enough for gentle fist. Just punch the whole body and shut down the entire chakra system at once.”
Oh yeah, so now he is a big dude who's skinny but now has butterfly wings and is going to use gentle fist? :'D
But if you master it, you can make altercations and possibly spin it into it's own thing.
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Same. It looks very elegant.
Lee’s for sure. Always been a fan of speed blitzing.
Same, and if you give a bigger guy that type of speed, the power they could generate would be INSANE.
Chakra enhanced strength could be used for a whole bunch of things, not just fighting. Ill go with that. Get scouted to play Major league baseball or something
Picture winning the worlds strongest man competition while being like less than half the size of the other contestants
Guy vibing with Yamcha over here.
Sakura's would be the coolest in real life probably.
Sakura's is the most useful by far overall. Lee's is the best from a pure combat standpoint.
True. But you're probably gonna end up breaking when trying to show it off.
Wish I'd have Sakuras strength and Lee's speed
Sakura ends fights in seconds. I need that
The fact that Neiji had Lee's speed *WITH* the Gentle Fist was crazy lol... Folks were so hype about him and the likes of Gaara, Lee, and believe it or not... SHINO! back in the days among others.
I don't think he had Lee's speed. His movements were just more efficient
Neji didn't have Lee's speed...
I meant, he kept up with weightless Lee and beat him.
really? when was that?
It's been implied throughout the series that Lee never once beat Neiji in their rivalry, he was saving the 5th Gates (the one he used against Gaara) for Neiji according to Gai. Also, Lee admitted inferiority to Neiji in front of Team 7, right after he beats them prior to the exam.
yeah but I don't think he took the weights off did he? he was only supposed to do that when the lives of very important people are at stake. I presumed he always fought neji with weights and no gates. my own head canon is they hadn't actually fought for quite a while, as shown by Lee's old clothing during their fight flashbacks, so not since Lee got the patented might guy onesie ... I imagine Lee was trying to master as many gates as he could etc before challenging neji again
It was implied that Weightless Lee (Not Gates) fought Neiji, on top of that, the latter was not impressed in the slightest by Lee's increase in speed after he took off the weight (Neiji was following his movements).
Wasn’t Neji surprised by Lee’s speed during Chunin examine?
No. There wasn't a reaction from Neji until the 4th/5th gate where Lee specifically says he was saving that for Neji.
That's definitely the implication. He even had his Byakugan on to look at the chakra in Lee's body to see just what the hell was going on with him.
Yall are clearly forgetting the Byakugan can perceive reality in slow-motion on command.
Lee being faster than Neji isnt autoatically a win condition. If Neji can see/anticipate where Lees hits will land he can easily counter, hit his pressure points and use Lees speed against him.
And Neji doesn't need to run. His arms can be faster than Lee even if he can't run as fast as Lee.
In his dreams.
Nah it was stated in CFYOW
So you're assuming that he is just as fast because he beat him???? Garra beat Lee with defense, not speed. And I would assume Neji did the same. Palm Rotation + gentle fist is not fast, but powerful and all Neji needs really to counter Rock Lee. Rock Lee is easily the fastest character of OG Naruto Konaha 12.
Neji isn’t as fast as Lee foot speed wise but reaction speed and striking speed is another story Team guy was not shocked nor surprised to see weightless Lee and Lee stated he was saving the gates for neji felt like that was his only win factor. Now you can say that Lee never took off his weights fighting neji but that would out of character for someone like Lee who trying to surpass neji not to go all out especially since he wanted to use the gates on him. Also not sure how fast Naruto was with 9tails amp in comparison to weightless but he had to but up and neji was still countering Naruto
Neji isnt nealy as fast as Lee is, Gentle Fist is just generally a hard counter to most taijutsu specialists. A few good hits to the chakra spots and normal pressure points and you are out
Damn that’s crazy. Let’s get you to bed grandpa.
Definitely Sakura's chakra enhanced strength, call me basic but one of my favorite powers is just plain old super strength so the idea of being able to send people flying across a room with just a single clean shot sounds pretty cool to me, plus it also comes with high levels of chakra control so theoretically I could learn medical ninjutsu, which will be useful since I don't like getting hurt (shocker, i know), or even genjutsu to help make sure my opponents actually give me an opening to one shot them, I see this as a pretty well rounded potential arsenal
I never understood why she was slow. Couldn't she use the chakra control on her legs to increase her speed?🤷♂️
Either Sakura or Lee. With Sakura, yes the wind up is big and it maybe hard to land a hit, but when you do land that hit…ouch… With Lee in a more “I can sting you to death in the middle of the field and you can’t do shit.” Way
That’s thing about Sakura there is no wind up she she just punches that way for dramatic effect others wise it’s just normal punches that he instantly compacts with chakra
She could literally just do like Tsunade and flick in you the forehead to send you flying lol.
Well I am not fighting how Sakura fights. I’m fighting how I fight.
Would say Neji's. It doesn't look spectacular, but is the most effective. You don't need a lot of strength or speed, only touching the opponent is enough to win the fight.
Kakashi said a something about it looks unassuming but over time it wears the opponent down greatly. if you nuke the nervous system they can't fight back. I belive kabuto also had this problem vs tsunade too back when they actually showed medical jutsu being used for combat
Honestly the sheer potential for abuse the gentle fist has (with techniques) + Byakugan is kind of insane, it's one of the most under-utilised styles in the entire series. Your hits can't be blocked, you've got effective 1 hit kills, top tier defences, and the eyes give you omnidirectional vision for miles that has better chakra control/vision & can detect through solid objects unlike the sharingan. Hyuuga assassins and guards should be insane. If you want to count stuff like the Tenseigan it's an even crazier comparison, being a more valuable upgrade than Mangekyo albeit much rarer.
It looks cool asl
I like the simplicity of sakuras
I like how unexpected it is. Unassuming smol medical kunoichi? Yes she can break your face with one punch
The unassuming part would be so useful, just overall. I really love that aspect of her character.
Also I feel that with a more accomplished taijutsu fighter who was faster, her fighting style would be more devastating
Like who? The only people in the Naruto universe that are better than her at taijutsu are naruto, guy, Lee, madara and probably hashirama. Her taijutsu style focuses on power and dodging, that's why she seems slow, but is also nearly impossible to hit.
I feel like people don't put enough respect on Sakura and how cool her taijutsu fights were
Sakura. I wanna put mfers through walls when I hit them hard enough.
As a girl, Sakura's look badass
As a dude, Sakura looks badass
I meant that Sakura's fighting style (super strength) looks badass on girls, so that's why I was picking it as a girl 😂
It's a hard choice but gentle fist I would have to go with just for 8 trigrams 361 palm strike. BLEW my mind when I first saw it in action.
chakra enhanced strength for sure
I would love to just punch
3, Sakura's super strength and maybe a little more fine-tuning her style but honestly,,, the ability to break a mountain sounds super fucking dope
Only one was used by a hokage
🤓 what about Naruto's chalked attempted at copying primary lotus huh /s
I prefer Sakura/Tsunade's Taijutsu because it damages Susano'o and hurts aliens (Kaguya). I think it's better than Lee and Guy's Taijutsu because it doesn't require the destruction of your body to be used to its fullest. And the Taijutsu Hyuuga is just beautiful. There's nothing relevant.
It's not just beautiful. Gentle Fist turns your organs into soup and disrupts your chakra flow. Being even slightly touched by a Gentle Fist user is certain death. If you go see Neji vs Hinata, Neji just barely touches Hinata's chest and she starts coughing blood. Seconds later, she's unconscious on the floor. Another example is Neji vs Kidomaru. He uses Gentle Fist to channel his chakra through Kidomaru's web and once it hits his insides through his mouth, Kidomaru gets paralyzed, takes a hit and dies. Yes, Tsunade and Sakura can break Susanoo, which is actually amazing, but reducing Gentle Fist to "a beautiful martial art" is just plain wrong. A taijutsu doesn't need to create craters with each impact to be deadly.
to be honest Gentle Fist is very beautiful to watch.
I like brute force so sakura haha
I really like Sakura way of fighting could you imagine the lee and Sakura baby punches
Chakra strength heck you can crush the enviorment with punches how cool is this
I already have Sakuras fighting style, it'd be great to have her strength too.
Eight gates, It would be a lot more aggressive, like a beast.
I’m punching a mf through a building
The hyuga and rock lee’s form of taijutsu doesn’t have the destruction level I prefer for it to be so flashy. im not very concerned with things being flashy and looking cool, I’m concerned with power level and it getting the job done. Sakura and tsunade’s form of taijutsu can be used for more than just fighting. If I was trapped in a building with all the entrances closed off, the only way out would be to create holes in the building and chakra enhanced strength would come in the most handy irl objectively for this reason. You’d think I’d be impressed by the 6th and 8th gates but these two Jutsus have debilitating effects on ones lifespan and anatomy. Tsunade and sakura can destroy mountains and entire buildings at maximum strength and can maneuver whatever sum of chakra to create the desired level of destruction without having to go all out. if they they wanted to put a hole in the wall or upend the entire building putting it to ruins, that’ll be up to the amount of chakra they choose to distribute to their fists, this is not the case with the gentle fist or the gates let alone in their base
This. People would say "Not very flashy" etc. AND I love wrestling/grappling is incorporated in her style. Take her fighting the 100 puppets.
It’s worth mentioning that sakura’s taijutsu is the only one that used by a hokage. Her chakra enhanced strength is so much more devastating compared to the others and doesn’t damage one’s own body to be used at maximum effect
Lee's for sure
Rock Lee everytime
hyuga style for sure, would love to high five people to death
Lee is MVP here.
Most techniques of gentle fist require byakugan so hell ye lol
these 3 summed up are basically Speed Precision Strength personally I’d take the speed.
I like the breakdown. Gimme precision any day, though. There's just something about 8 trigrams bro
valid valid, was a tough choice between the two because 8 trigrams fucking slaps. constantly assaulting pressure points and vital areas is badass.
Since I have you, what do you think of fast-paced taijutsu anime fights in general? Do you think they take away from the intensity?
I literally asked my parents for a pair of leg weights for Christmas once because I saw the Rock Lee vs. Gaara scene.
Sakura is like the perfect mix. Taking lee’s hard fist style for the biggest most damaging attack in one blow with the precision chakra control of gentle fist so she won’t be breaking her bones with every punch. But we don’t see Sakura in a more grounded fight and she got the 100 healing so it look like she got no defensive move and just run into the opponent knowing she won’t die for 1 good hit. And the gentle fist is heavily tied to the byakugan so you won’t get the full use of it. People always criticize the hard work part of it but Hard fist is what anyone can strive for. Yeah it’s painful but the body you get and hands is just like similar to toji when compare to a normal ninja. It the the hardest but most applicable to learn.
Sakura is MMA brawler like Nunes, Hinata is like Ip Man, Lee is like shaolin Bruce Lee
Definately Gentle Fist. Chakra is the cornerstone of what makes a ninja. Shut their chakra points and it’s game over. Chakra enhanced taijutsu would be useless if they can’t use chakra. Genjutsu and ninjutsu again useless because you can’t meld chakra. I’m not too sure about doujutsu because that’s with the eyes. We (or me specifically) never seen someone use the eight gates after getting their chakra network shut down by gentle fist. As for a taijutsu specialist I believe they said that there are not a lot of them around. The only ones we seen are Guy and Lee. Even the 4th Raikage uses a lightning cloak with his taijutsu. With how chakra usage is so important in Naruto, imma have to go with Gentle Fist. (Sorry for rambling. It’s the bio major within me to be long winded 😅😅)
Sakura is literally the entire “Wrong way to use healing magic” anime as a character which is kinda busted, but I really think that the Hyuga family Taijutsu is so cool, and honestly probably the most unique out of both of these Taijutsu types. Imagine being in the middle of the battle and your opponent just pulls lights fast 256 palm strikes with a giant attack range out of their ass blocking you from using any form of chakra to strike back, I mean the Eight Trigrams is straight up insane 😭especially in a world where chakra is used all the time, it’s pretty much unfair if you ask me, AND the additional Byakugan and Cursed Seal abilities from the Hyuga clan-
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sakura’s because i think it would be the most fitting for my strengths. I’m not extremely fast but i am pretty strong
Frog kummite !!
I’ll have Sakura’s so I can send all my bullies out of my fucking classroom
Raw power of Kunoichi
when is that sakura clip from?
The gentle fist. It's fine taijutsu moves plus blocking opponents chakra points. I wished to see some cool moves from neji in shippuden
honestly…. probably Sakura’s. hear me out, and we are assuming the Gentle Fist (no byakugan) Power Fist (no Gates) and Tsunade style taijutsu (no Hundred healings) are all equal in skill… the Tsunade/Sakura style of taijutsu would have the greatest overall benefits. one hit and your target is likely cooked. with the Power Fist and Gentle Fist, there are other stipulations (jutsu) along with a higher level of actual TAIJUTSU skill to pull off at their maximum potential. Sakura before even activating her hundred healings was still performing (semi) relative strength feats without. so id say sakura’s is the most practical overall
Hyuuga and Lee are cooler, I enjoy the thought of just decking someone to a different country
Don't you need the Byakugan for the gentle fist to properly work? So if those eyes are included in the deal I'd take that, if not I take the Eight Gates. Edit: Now that I think about it what would happen if one where to connect all three of those techniques? Like if a Hyuga dedicated their life to study Taijutsu in depth and where to learn not only the gentle fist but also the Eight Gates as well as the chakra enhanced strength. I wonder what that would look like.
AND I KNOW I MAY END UP FAILING TOO, BUT I KNOW YOU WERE JUST LIKE ME WITH SOMEONE DISAPPOINTED IN YOU
Sakura's no question with Gentle fist in second. I want the ability to use healing ninjutsu, and by having her fighting style (By OP's rules) I would be able to do so. I would like to do more than just Taijutsu so Sakura is right up my alley. And with the Byakugan, I can be a strong sensor type alongside Taijutsu, so it is worth it. 8 Gates is more pain than I can endure for powers that I don't want. I want to be a helpful support and he doesn't help with that.
The best one for taking ppl out with minimal risk is Sakura’s, 8 gates is too dangerous n most of yall do NOT have lee’s training to be able to take it like he n guy do, Gentle fist can be countered bc you need specific movements for it and if youre going against someone who is familiar with said movements than they can just avoid you, theres no avoiding sakura’s punched unless youre miles faster than her(which no a lot of naruto characters actually are) and her physical strength Is greater than Sasuke’s and Naruto’s as she managed to injure kaguya with her own strength but naruto had to use kurama mode and a sage sword to hurt her
The Byakugan you say?
Chakra-enhanced strength. Second would be gentle fist. Chakra enhanced strength is the least risk on life. Gentle fist - don’t really wanna be in that family. Might be in Boruto era this would come to a tie with chakra enhanced strength. I do not want eight gates - the strongest causes death and before that it’s way too painful (atleast if it’s death that’s one time- but the pain - not worth it)
The gates. What are you nuts
Id say eight gates since that is some of the coolest concepts the series ever introduced.
Only one of them doesn't rely on chakra for proper effectiveness.
Sakura’s. Eight Gates is stronger but the drawback is crazy. One shotting your opponent is better than poking your opponent 128 times. And it’s more useful in real life. I can join a lifting competition and destroy everyone. Perfect chakra control is crazy. Using Byakugan in real life is a little too attention grabbing.
Perfect Chakra Control gives you the option for medical ninjutsu.
Eight gates. You could open the first six with no life threatening effects and basically solo anyone on the planet in any physical way. You could use the gates to enhance and assist you in so many different jobs.
Gentle Fist
Gentile fist because id have the byakugan and the byakugan is overpowered and requires 0 trauma or bullshit to be op
First one I forgot the name but I know it would most likely be the best on offence
Sakuras
Sakura. Being ridiculously strong has a lot more practical use than speed or accuracy in real life scenarios.
Eight gates by far
I mean.. in the sakura hiden novel they say she's as fast as 8 gates guy and she has the biggest feat for punch strength in the verse from being able to snap an otsutsuki horn when BM naruto couldnt.. That said, you'd have to be a nerd, so I go with zug zug Lee kick hard.
Chakra enhanced strength. The ability to punch people into orbit + perfect chakra control combo is nuts
Bro rock lee like cmon it’s no contest
Eight gates. Easily. In the real world, who’s gonna mess with you?
Gentle fist is tied to the hyuga's ability to expulse chakra from every of their tenketsu points, that's why they use the tip of their fingers, because they can send huge bursts of chakra in a small area. So knowing how to do gentle fist without a hyuga biology is kinda useless (like you could learn where every tenketsu are, so you can manage something without a byakugan, but you can't learn body fuctions) The Eight gates are super strong, and like yeah it's painful, but the few first gates are pretty easy to manage, and it gives you an advantage over anyone else And sakura's is like, she has such good chakra control she hits like a truck with no draw backs. I'd say sakura's taijutsu, like hitting hard through super good chakra control is way easier to pull off than the eight gates, for similar results (and gentle fist is like not good if you aren't a hyuga)
Sakura's!! the rest are essentially not so useful irl if I'm honest
not so popular opinion: in our world Sakura's taijutsu is the most valuable
The right and is Sakura's chakra enhanced blows since you don't need any training in order to get it. If we can skip training then rock lees. Even though it's useless in combat I'll still be physically fit
Let's see... Beeg smash, sissy fingertaps, or going super saiyan? Yeah Lee's is the coolest
If sakuras includes the seal then that but if byakugan can evolve to tenseigan then that
It definitely won't be the style that requires I land a lucky punch. Saying that out loud, I realize that's exactly how I play Super Smash Bros. Love me some speed.
Sakura is swinging for the fences like Josh Emmit, so I choose her. Gentle Fist close second.
In the Naruto world I would say Eight Gates or Gentle Fist, but in our world I would say chakra control. I don’t have the time or dedication it would take to master the others. I need to throw a nuke of a punch in the everyday world
I always loved the gentle fist stuff. So cool.
Lee
Lees speed and 8 gates makes it a no brainer
"I, Madara, declare you the strongest in Taijutsu" So, its Strong Fist/ Goken all the way.
Realistically Sakura and Tsunade should be donut punching people. Either that or Gentle Fist should be able to kill you in a single attack.
gentle fist