Sasuke was NERFED in the final fight
Okay, so it appears that I have your attention, and now, I will show some points here that prove my point.Ā
But before, I want to show WHY he was nerfed.
If you like to write stories u know a little about structuring a story, how characters work and things like that, and u have an ending in mind, but you have to work your way up to that ending, right ?Ā
But the thing is, to make the ending that we have today, Kishimoto had to make Naruto and Sasuke be equals, but have in mind that because of everything that he established before Sasuke was supposed to be stronger than Naruto, and he is still to this day being nerfed to be in a equal level and you know it.Ā
This happens a lot in Narutoverse or elsewhere.
I am a huge Batman fan, but letās be real, Superman is OP, REALLY OP, but if you are going to write a story with those two fighting u have to make an specific scenario where Batman has a chance to fight Superman.Ā
This is my favorite example in Narutoās story, Kakashi is the most inconsistent character when it comes to be used as a plot piece or being the one that is the most nerfed to make the story work.Ā
Letās imagine, the Kakashi of the Sharingan, after the fight with Zabuza didn't need to rest (BECAUSE MAYBE HE DOESN'T NEED TO REST AFTER USING THE SHARINGAN ????) instead he tracks Zabuza and Haku and end their lives, I mean, he was ANBU special ops before, he is the Kakashi of the Sharingan, so its weird that after a fight he has to rest for a WEEK so Team 7 get stronger.
I could show u guys more examples, but I want to get to the point, Sasuke in the final fight.Ā
I know some of you can be likeĀ āBut sasuke was buffed with the tailed beastsā thatās not necessarily the truth, yeah, he used the Chakra and things like that, but he was lacking a lot of tools of his arsernal in that fight.Ā
So letās list here the ones.Ā
He didn't have both Rinnegans in the last fight, and he didnāt use a lot of his visual powers, u can argue a lot about this, but itās the truth, Rinnegan itās the most powerful dojutsu in the earth and Sasuke barely uses in the final fight.Ā
Another power of those eyes that Sasuke didnāt use, he did fly using Susanno, but itās not the same.Ā
Kuroki Jushink / Black Needles
By stabbing an opponent with the rods, the user can transmit their chakra into the target's body, disrupting their own chakra and throwing off their movements, and yet, Sasuke never uses.Ā
Ā U can argue about this one, but he has Hashirama Cells, an Uchiha with Hashirama cells achieve what u call the six paths, so this gives u rinnengan.Ā
After Madara took a bite of Hashirama, he made the Zetsu and this is a manipulation of Wood release (so u can say that U DONT NEED A ZETSU LIMB os someshit like that to use wood style) if Sasuke had used Mokuton against Naruto, this fight would have ended quick.Ā
And even after the fight, Sasuke never accepted the white Zetsu arm,the excuse Kishimoto gave us is that Sasuke doesn't have that arm as a punishment to himself, but the truth its that he would be WAY stronger than Naruto if that happened and they wouldnāt know how to write him in Borutoās because he would be a god among men.Ā
When he gains Six Paths Rinnegan power, Sasuke is able to use all nature transformations but we donāt see that as much as we would like.Ā
If u have read Sasuke Retsuden u can see him using Ice style (yeah, Im not kidding)Ā Ā OR CREATING WATER out of nowhere (Nidaime would be proud)
+ I highly recommend if you ship Sakura and Sasuke to read this CANON content;
Okay okay, I think I made my point and I like the ending, but to me Sasuke couldāve win that battle and he has a lot of skills that I didn't list here that couldāve entered this list.Ā
But letās leave at that, thank u for reading and I would like to hear from you
Obs: I not an English speaker, if u see a grammar mistake or something, please let me know :)Ā