Restrictions: None Location: Sannin battlefild Knowledge: Manga Starting distance: 30 meters Conditions: Both are healthy, Jiraiya starts in base
Judges: Immortal Itachi, zexion333, Meido, dkdankong and - Їиfєяио -
It would seem that Tsunade's stamina is hard to gauge in part 2 because of the way she has used her chakra in part 2. So I wish to break down the feats that plenty of us know into more palpable terms.
So Tsunade's first real stamina feat in part 2 was during Pein's invasion. Many people don't truly realize how much chakra she used. They simply remember her passing out from chakra exhaustion.
Pein Arc
So her use of chakra began by her summoning Katsuyu.
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Why is this notable. People summon all the time. While some people do summon often, what we managed to learn during Naruto's training by Jiraiya is that larger summons require more chakra to bring forth.
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The reason we can know this is because Naruto had been summoning tadpoles for days with the amount of chakra he had been using but didn't summon Bunta until he used Kurama's chakra. And Jiraiya showed us what happens when the proper amount of chakra isn't used for a summoning
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Now it's evident that used a sizeable amount of chakra to summon Katsuyu. But how large is Katsuyu? She is nearly the size of a bijuu. We know that Katsuyu is larger than Gamabunta and not just slightly. She would be approximately 1.5 times his size.
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But why are we discussing Gamabunta? We've now seen Gamabunta go against Bijuus on two occasions so the way to compare Katsuyu's size to the bijuus is to use Gamabunta as the ruler. This is Gamabunta directly next to the 1 tails
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and Bunta with the 9 tails
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Now we can conclusively say Katsuyu is larger than Gamabunta. Gamabunta is nearly the same size as the one tails. And his size is comparable to the 9 tails. Which would mean Katsuyu would more likely then be larger than the 1 tails. And the amount of chakra to summon such a large creature would be immense.
The Pein arc is pretty simplistic in her feats once you fully understand the gravity of said feats. Her next feat was using Katsuyu to attend to the villagers. Why is this impressive. So it is a given that healing requires a lot of chakra.
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So much so that Kabuto was unable to heal from Naruto's rasengan.
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You may say. Well duh Naruto's rasengan is totally baws. Fair enough but the reason this is remarkable is because Kabuto had just taken a soldier pill which is said to allow you to fight for 3 days.
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So even with the chakra boost he still couldn't heal from the rasengan. Keep this in mind I'll be using this later. Yet Tsunade managed to heal most of the villagers. Tsunade healed those villagers continually throughout the attack. And did a mass healing pouring her entire reserve into healing after Chou Shinra Tensei. Considering there seems to be easily upward of 60,000 people in Konoha this feat is put into perspective.
The next major feat we'll consider is the War Arc. War Arc
Tsunade's fist notable feat was using Creation Rebirth when she arrived to the battlefield.
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We've already talked about healing using a lot of chakra so I won't talk much about that. The next notable thing she does in terms of stamina is heal Gaara and Oonoki and give them chakra.
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But how can you know she gave them Chakra? They had just exhausted themselves because of Madara's attacks.
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In fact Oonoki was so drained he not only had trouble standing up but also fell back down.
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also based on what Naruto said we can infer that she was giving them chakra as well.
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If the clone needed wounds healed so badly it would have already disappeared. So why was there a threat of it disappearing? Because it had used so much chakra.
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What does this tell us? It tells us that Tsunade is capable of handling the fatigue they had and their chakra expenditure up until that point. Which would include Oonoki's battles since leaving the situation room and Gaara's battles.
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This slide is actually very important as it gives you an idea of how many Jintons were used.
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She then goes on to heal Mei and give her chakra.
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She then goes on to heal Mei and give her chakra.
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Tsunade then enters the fray herself. Which is bound to fatigue and she activates Byakugou
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She shortly after was impaled.
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And after she healed from that and tanked and healed from three Yasaka Magatamas.
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She then continues to actively fight 5 Madara clones which at some point that they are off screen begin using susanoo
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At some point she is impaled by another 2 swords.
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Now at this point it is notable to mention how many self wounds she has healed since she used the first creation rebirth when she got on the battlefield. Now compare this to Kabuto who even with a soldier pill could not heal from Naruto's rasengan and you'll realize how much chakra actually went into healing herself. When one thinks about all the jutsus Gaara and Oonoki used before Tsunade got there and realize that Tsunade had enough chakra to replenish their reserves we can begin to appreciate her reserves. She then goes on to heal and replenish Mei. That's three kages who's chakra she replenished with her own. But she isn't done. She went on to boost Oonoki's Jinton to proportions we've never seen it at.
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We know Jinton requires a sizable amount of chakra because when split in half Muu can no longer use Jinton. Tsunade's final feat before she herself receives chakra is tanking and healing from Madara's Katon.
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But in order to appreciate the full power of those 5 heads look at what just one head did during Sasuke's fight with Itachi
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when Sasuke fired another a large section of the roof began to collapse
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My point being this is an extremely powerful technique, one the databook says has the capability to turn people into ash, yet Tsunade tanked 5 of these and healed from them. It's also worth noting the gokage battle waged on for a very long time.
People also tend to believe that Tsunade ran out of chakra in the battle against Orochimaru in part 1 but that is untrue for 2 reasons.
1. After the fight concluded she regained her seal.
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2. When she expends all of her chakra she goes unconscious
So Taz, why did she get so old then? Most likely because she released her transformation technique. It is the explanation that best fits the evidence.
It occurs to me that the stamina section would be the best place to talk about Tsunade’s longevity. There is very little that needs to be said. As a descendent of the Uzumaki clan she was bound to live long.
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Tsunade has also demonstrated her longevity. I will provide two examples which I believe to be the most effective. I will state them in the chronological order of events. Tsunade was stabbed through the heart and survived long enough to be slashed twice more and to hit Orochimaru.
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The next example will show Tsunade in an even more precarious situation in which she still can use summoning and medical ninjutsu.
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Tsunade’s Durability:
While Tsunade is not the most durable shinobi, I would say that her durability is top ten. I think quality of feats is more relevant than having a multitude of feats. Thus, I will use only few feats to emphasize my point. I will go from least impressive feats to most impressive feats. Therefore, the place to begin is with her fight with Kabuto.
In her battle with Kabuto he cut her intercostal muscles, her bicep muscles, and her Rectus Femoris.
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Despite this, she was still able to breath, run, and punch; things that should not have been possible given her injuries.
The next feat involves her enduring Shinra Tensei. She released her yin seal to heal the villagers, but obviously not herself as she is bleeding.
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She did not have Katsuyu to protect her and she was running closer to the epicenter of Shinra Tensei when Diva Path used it.
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Such a feat is notable because Shinra Tensei did this to the village.
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A very powerful feat requires a bit more consideration. Tsunade endured the Heavenly Transfer Technique with only a few cuts.
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This is despite Mabui’s warning that she’d be ripped apart.
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To consider why such a technique would do that and fully appreciate at this feat we must take into consideration what the implications of light speed travel.
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If any object is traveling toward point x at the speed of light. That would mean that any stationary thing between that object and point x is traveling toward the object at the speed of light as well, relative to the object. Things that are traveling toward the object and is between the object and point x would be traveling faster than the speed of light relative to the object. And things going away from the object between the object and point x would be moving slower than the speed of light. This would mean that if Tsunade is the object and Madara is point X, then the air in the atmosphere was affecting her body at or near light speed. Thus, the injuries she received are either from the air cutting against body at those speeds or other things such as insects cutting against her body. At that level of acceleration, impacting with an insect would be more deadly, than being shot by a bullet. Likewise, note how winds going 70 miles an hour rip homes apart, or to use an example how the wind from Kiba’s Fang over Fang is supposed to tear the enemy apart.
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And how Temari’s wind jutsus cut.
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Therefore we can reason on the destructive power that Tsunade endured.
Finally, the last feat for Durability I will discuss is Tsunade enduring the Yasaka Magatama’s from Madara. Yasaka Magatama is Itachi’s most destructive technique.
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I know he said he long range but we haven’t at any point seen a technique of his more destructive than Yasaka Magatama. But this was not Itachi’s Yasaka Magatama but Madara’s. His Yasaka Magatamas broke through Gaara’s sand shield and nearly through the stone golem as well.
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So while Tsunade did heal from the resulting damage the point is that she wasn’t ripped apart by the technique.
Tsunade’s Speed and Reflexes:
Tsunade is not a speed demon by any means but she is sufficiently quick. We’ve not seen her take on an opponent that she couldn’t hit. But we’ll get to that in a moment. I first would like to use examples of speed feats Tsunade has shown.
The first instance of Tsunade’s great reflexes involves her being drunk. Drunk may be an understatement, she was completely hammered. Taz, how do you know how intoxicated she was? Kishimoto shows us.
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Now Tsunade is roughly 108 pounds or 48.9 kg. Given that she had 4 bottles of sake and sake has an alcohol content of 14 to 17% and though the bottles resemble 12 oz beer bottles we’re going to assume they are only 8 ounces. Which leads to 32 ounces of sake. If you’ve ever had a four loko that would be about two fourlokos, or about 10.5 beers, or 6 shots of 80 proof. Given her weight, gender, and assuming 6 hours of drinking her BAC would be .35. Which would put her in a coma. So let’s say she’s been drinking for 10 hours. She would still be in a coma. And 10 hours seems unpractical given all that encountered in the day, namely, gambling, trying to get out of Tanzuka town, sightseeing with Shizune, and meeting with Orochimaru. Discussing twelve ounce bottles would just be redundant. She then had that beer while meeting with Jiraiya. It looks about half empty and it’s mug so we’ll say she’s at just over 11 beers for an 108 pound woman. So she should be completely sloppy. Maybe my math is a bit off, but if it is she is still slurring her speech as you see when she tries to order yet another bottle which at the very least would put her BAC between .18 and .30. And people do build a tolerance with alcohol which allows them to not feel some of the side effects of alcohol until they are further gone. Considering the databook has as one of her favorite foods “alcohol” it’s safe to assume she has a good tolerance and that my calculations aren’t misled. Yet she manages all of the following in such a state.
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Given how slowed her response time should have been, and given how her muscle control and balance should have been affected as well this is a solid reaction feat.
The next feat I would like to use involves the current war arc. She hasn’t really been shown much in action since part 1 so this would be the place to display her skills. We can agree that when the gokage where put to sleep they were here
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Yet Tsunade quickly cleared that distance.
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Which is what led to Madara comparing her and A’s speed. She is slower. I do not and cannot argue that. But she is quick nonetheless.
Since we are discussing A let us take a moment to thoroughly delve into Tsunade’s speed feats in relation to A. For the second example, we’ll use a coordinated attack between Mei, Oonoki, A and Tsunade. Tsunade is clearly on the ground as Mei’s Suiton extinguishes the Katon and tosses Madara and his susanoo in the air. Tsunade is not seen anywhere in the vicinity to Madara whereas Oonoki and Madara are on panel coming to hit the susanoo. Directly afterwards, Tsunade kicks the Susanoo. Ay and Oonoki did not knock the Susanoo back to Tsunade as they are all right next each other after Madara’s susanoo is sent flying.
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That sequence of events shows Tsunade’s speed because she was able to arrive at the same place as the Raikage just after he arrived.
In base, when Tsunade jumped to block Madara’s Katon she made it much farther in a short period of time than he made it when he tried to save her. The point that the Raikage was trying to reach was the exact same spot yet he only made it past Oonoki.
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This would indicate that she is faster than his base because she covered more distance. And in terms of reaction times, Tsunade was able to react faster than Mei was. And she was able to determine Mei could not react in time and was able to think of and enact a functioning way to save the other kage. When Madara was about to attack the kage Tsunade was the only member of the kage to react.
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Finally, Tsunade and A were able to completely approach Bee and Naruto in such a quick manner neither Bee nor Naruto saw it coming and both were barely able to react.
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I do not subscribe to databook stats of any sort because they have discrepancies. I could name several but that will come later. The point I want to establish now is that Tsunade can hit people who are considered faster than her; some by the databook, and others just by the general populous. Shizune has a 4 in the databook and when she threatened to stop Tsunade even if she had to die trying; she was inviting Tsunade into a fight. Yet she was completely unable able to respond when Tsunade attacked.
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Many consider Jiraiya to be much faster than Tsunade. The databook, which I will address soon, places him a whole tier above Tsunade in speed. Yet Jiraiya recounts on several instances, that Tsunade was able to hit him.
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And if he was looking directly at her peeping and she still managed to catch him though he was looking directly at her that would definitely be a better feat for Tsunade. What we can say then is that Tsunade can hit him. That's not a question. Why would Jiraiya allow himself to almost be beat to death, like he said after that beating he was on the brink of death. What happened to him is not the same thing as Sakura hitting Naruto. Naruto is never seriously injured by Sakura. Tsunade seriously injured him to the point that he almost died. Even if he didn't fight back as hard as possible, would you believe that he didn't try his hardest to avoid Tsunade's strikes? It's not as if he didn't know about Tsunade's strength. He was her teammate and friend. Furthermore, for him to have broken ribs, and both arms broken she would have needed to hit him more than once.
This will be the weakest argument I use for speed or reflexes. People think that Tsunade could never hit Orochimaru. This is simply not true. In this instance, yes he was surprised she could overcome haemophobia the same way an opponent would be surprised she withstood a death dealing blow. She was able to kick him before he could regain his senses. Thus, she could do something similar to others.
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On to the databook, the data book has several inconsistencies; especially with speed. For instance, Kakashi has a 4.5 in speed in the databook yet when he was running full speed he got blitzed by Kakuzu who had a 4 in speed.
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In turn, Kakuzu was almost nailed by Naruto who has a 3.5 in speed.
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In terms of stamina, Tsunade has a 4 yet she was capable of the feats described in the stamina section. Well Taz, healing the village in the way she did was calculated into having a 4 because 5 means you just have that much more chakra. Okay, but then why is it that Gaara who has a 5 in stamina had his chakra replenished by Tsunade. Who then went on to heal and replenish two other kage and she proceeded to fight, regenerate, and replenish some more.
Tsunade’s Intelligence:
As Tsunade is the world’s best doctor it should be obvious that she is indeed intelligent. However, I cannot make such a claim without backing it up. Because her medical knowledge is beyond apparent, I will speak more about her practical knowledge. One of the things Tsunade was praised for by Kabuto was her intelligence.
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What Kabuto says allows us to know that Tsunade had an excellent understanding of war and battle. She was the first of generations of people and multitudes of nations, who proposed having medical assistance in the field.
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From this we can gather that Tsunade’s understanding of was advanced she understood the necessity, and that was why Jiraiya said she was important in konoha’s victory in the second war. It’s also evident she knows what is necessary when fighting many enemies as she talked about covert ops, as well as fighting a few enemies such as in this war. She knew that for this kind of a battle, contrary to the ideas of Shikaku that Bee’s and Naruto’s strength would be necessary to win.
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In her rules for medical ninja, and in her instruction of Sakura we see her knowledge of battle.
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In combat she has created diversion for the enemy against Madara she used herself as a diversion.
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Tsunade is able to understand how motivation affects people and their performance on the battlefield.
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While Tsunade is an emotional person, she is able to rationalize and objectively analyze situations.
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Tsunade can reason on the motives of her enemies and spot traps ahead of time.
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Tsunade here indicates that she didn't just stick Yamato with team Kakashi for kicks and giggles nor just because of him being powerful, but also because he mokuton includes Chakra suppression.
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Tsunade also shows that she knew that if the Hidden Leaf really crumbled then Naruto would be in grave danger, thus he had to fight to defend it if he had any chance in being safe.
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In stressful situations Tsunade has managed to provide quick leadership the has a solid plan of defense. And she knew a means to hand out information instanteously is paramount. And therefore, she knows the value of information and thus would strive to obtain it through whatever means necessary.
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Tsunade has also shown her ability to think up counters to enemies unusual abilities once she has information on them.
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As opposed to most people Tsunade was able to perceive that Pein was about to launch a large scale attack.
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Her attention to detail allows her to quickly analyze and make deductions.
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She is intelligent enough to be highly deceptive when she so chooses.
It would seem that Tsunade's stamina is hard to gauge in part 2 because of the way she has used her chakra in part 2. So I wish to break down the feats that plenty of us know into more palpable terms.
So Tsunade's first real stamina feat in part 2 was during Pein's invasion. Many people don't truly realize how much chakra she used. They simply remember her passing out from chakra exhaustion.
Pein Arc
So her use of chakra began by her summoning Katsuyu.
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Why is this notable. People summon all the time. While some people do summon often, what we managed to learn during Naruto's training by Jiraiya is that larger summons require more chakra to bring forth.
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The reason we can know this is because Naruto had been summoning tadpoles for days with the amount of chakra he had been using but didn't summon Bunta until he used Kurama's chakra. And Jiraiya showed us what happens when the proper amount of chakra isn't used for a summoning
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Now it's evident that used a sizeable amount of chakra to summon Katsuyu. But how large is Katsuyu? She is nearly the size of a bijuu. We know that Katsuyu is larger than Gamabunta and not just slightly. She would be approximately 1.5 times his size.
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But why are we discussing Gamabunta? We've now seen Gamabunta go against Bijuus on two occasions so the way to compare Katsuyu's size to the bijuus is to use Gamabunta as the ruler. This is Gamabunta directly next to the 1 tails
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and Bunta with the 9 tails
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Now we can conclusively say Katsuyu is larger than Gamabunta. Gamabunta is nearly the same size as the one tails. And his size is comparable to the 9 tails. Which would mean Katsuyu would more likely then be larger than the 1 tails. And the amount of chakra to summon such a large creature would be immense.
The Pein arc is pretty simplistic in her feats once you fully understand the gravity of said feats. Her next feat was using Katsuyu to attend to the villagers. Why is this impressive. So it is a given that healing requires a lot of chakra.
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So much so that Kabuto was unable to heal from Naruto's rasengan.
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You may say. Well duh Naruto's rasengan is totally baws. Fair enough but the reason this is remarkable is because Kabuto had just taken a soldier pill which is said to allow you to fight for 3 days.
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So even with the chakra boost he still couldn't heal from the rasengan. Keep this in mind I'll be using this later. Yet Tsunade managed to heal most of the villagers. Tsunade healed those villagers continually throughout the attack. And did a mass healing pouring her entire reserve into healing after Chou Shinra Tensei. Considering there seems to be easily upward of 60,000 people in Konoha this feat is put into perspective.
The next major feat we'll consider is the War Arc. War Arc
Tsunade's fist notable feat was using Creation Rebirth when she arrived to the battlefield.
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We've already talked about healing using a lot of chakra so I won't talk much about that. The next notable thing she does in terms of stamina is heal Gaara and Oonoki and give them chakra.
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But Taz, how can you know she gave them Chakra? They had just exhausted themselves because of Madara's attacks.
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In fact Oonoki was so drained he not only had trouble standing up but also fell back down.
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also based on what Naruto said we can infer that she was giving them chakra as well.
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If the clone needed wounds healed so badly it would have already disappeared. So why was there a threat of it disappearing? Because it had used so much chakra.
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What does this tell us? It tells us that Tsunade is capable of handling the fatigue they had and their chakra expenditure up until that point. Which would include Oonoki's battles since leaving the situation room and Gaara's battles.
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This slide is actually very important as it gives you an idea of how many Jintons were used.
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She then goes on to heal Mei and give her chakra.
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She then goes on to heal Mei and give her chakra.
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Tsunade then enters the fray herself. Which is bound to fatigue and she activates Byakugou
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She shortly after was impaled.
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And after she healed from that and tanked and healed from three Yasaka Magatamas.
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She then continues to actively fight 5 Madara clones which at some point that they are off screen begin using susanoo
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At some point she is impaled by another 2 swords.
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Now at this point it is notable to mention how many self wounds she has healed since she used the first creation rebirth when she got on the battlefield. Now compare this to Kabuto who even with a soldier pill could not heal from Naruto's rasengan and you'll realize how much chakra actually went into healing herself. When one thinks about all the jutsus Gaara and Oonoki used before Tsunade got there and realize that Tsunade had enough chakra to replenish their reserves we can begin to appreciate her reserves. She then goes on to heal and replenish Mei. That's three kages who's chakra she replenished with her own. But she isn't done. She went on to boost Oonoki's Jinton to proportions we've never seen it at.
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We know Jinton requires a sizable amount of chakra because when split in half Muu can no longer use Jinton. Tsunade's final feat before she herself receives chakra is tanking and healing from Madara's Katon.
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But in order to appreciate the full power of those 5 heads look at what just one head did during Sasuke's fight with Itachi
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when Sasuke fired another a large section of the roof began to collapse
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My point being this is an extremely powerful technique, one the databook says has the capability to turn people into ash, yet Tsunade tanked 5 of these and healed from them. It's also worth noting the gokage battle waged on for a very long time.
People also tend to believe that Tsunade ran out of chakra in the battle against Orochimaru in part 1 but that is untrue for 2 reasons.
1. After the fight concluded she regained her seal.
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2. When she expends all of her chakra she goes unconscious
So Taz, why did she get so old then? Most likely because she released her transformation technique. It is the explanation that best fits the evidence.
It occurs to me that the stamina section would be the best place to talk about Tsunade’s longevity. There is very little that needs to be said. As a descendent of the Uzumaki clan she was bound to live long.
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Tsunade has also demonstrated her longevity. I will provide two examples which I believe to be the most effective. I will state them in the chronological order of events. Tsunade was stabbed through the heart and survived long enough to be slashed twice more and to hit Orochimaru.
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The next example will show Tsunade in an even more precarious situation in which she still can use summoning and medical ninjutsu.
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Tsunade’s Durability:
While Tsunade is not the most durable shinobi, I would say that her durability is top ten. I think quality of feats is more relevant than having a multitude of feats. Thus, I will use only few feats to emphasize my point. I will go from least impressive feats to most impressive feats. Therefore, the place to begin is with her fight with Kabuto.
In her battle with Kabuto he cut her intercostal muscles, her bicep muscles, and her Rectus Femoris.
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Despite this, she was still able to breath, run, and punch; things that should not have been possible given her injuries.
The next feat involves her enduring Shinra Tensei. She released her yin seal to heal the villagers, but obviously not herself as she is bleeding.
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She did not have Katsuyu to protect her and she was running closer to the epicenter of Shinra Tensei when Diva Path used it.
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Such a feat is notable because Shinra Tensei did this to the village.
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A very powerful feat requires a bit more consideration. Tsunade endured the Heavenly Transfer Technique with only a few cuts.
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This is despite Mabui’s warning that she’d be ripped apart.
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To consider why such a technique would do that and fully appreciate at this feat we must take into consideration what the implications of light speed travel.
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If any object is traveling toward point x at the speed of light. That would mean that any stationary thing between that object and point x is traveling toward the object at the speed of light as well, relative to the object. Things that are traveling toward the object and is between the object and point x would be traveling faster than the speed of light relative to the object. And things going away from the object between the object and point x would be moving slower than the speed of light. This would mean that if Tsunade is the object and Madara is point X, then the air in the atmosphere was affecting her body at or near light speed. Thus, the injuries she received are either from the air cutting against body at those speeds or other things such as insects cutting against her body. At that level of acceleration, impacting with an insect would be more deadly, than being shot by a bullet. Likewise, note how winds going 70 miles an hour rip homes apart, or to use an example how the wind from Kiba’s Fang over Fang is supposed to tear the enemy apart.
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And how Temari’s wind jutsus cut.
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Therefore we can reason on the destructive power that Tsunade endured.
Finally, the last feat for Durability I will discuss is Tsunade enduring the Yasaka Magatama’s from Madara. Yasaka Magatama is Itachi’s most destructive technique.
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I know he said he long range but we haven’t at any point seen a technique of his more destructive than Yasaka Magatama. But this was not Itachi’s Yasaka Magatama but Madara’s. His Yasaka Magatamas broke through Gaara’s sand shield and nearly through the stone golem as well.
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So while Tsunade did heal from the resulting damage the point is that she wasn’t ripped apart by the technique.
Tsunade’s Speed and Reflexes:
Tsunade is not a speed demon by any means but she is sufficiently quick. We’ve not seen her take on an opponent that she couldn’t hit. But we’ll get to that in a moment. I first would like to use examples of speed feats Tsunade has shown.
The first instance of Tsunade’s great reflexes involves her being drunk. Drunk may be an understatement, she was completely hammered. Taz, how do you know how intoxicated she was? Kishimoto shows us.
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Now Tsunade is roughly 108 pounds or 48.9 kg. Given that she had 4 bottles of sake and sake has an alcohol content of 14 to 17% and though the bottles resemble 12 oz beer bottles we’re going to assume they are only 8 ounces. Which leads to 32 ounces of sake. If you’ve ever had a four loko that would be about two fourlokos, or about 10.5 beers, or 6 shots of 80 proof. Given her weight, gender, and assuming 6 hours of drinking her BAC would be .35. Which would put her in a coma. So let’s say she’s been drinking for 10 hours. She would still be in a coma. And 10 hours seems unpractical given all that encountered in the day, namely, gambling, trying to get out of Tanzuka town, sightseeing with Shizune, and meeting with Orochimaru. Discussing twelve ounce bottles would just be redundant. She then had that beer while meeting with Jiraiya. It looks about half empty and it’s mug so we’ll say she’s at just over 11 beers for an 108 pound woman. So she should be completely sloppy. Maybe my math is a bit off, but if it is she is still slurring her speech as you see when she tries to order yet another bottle which at the very least would put her BAC between .18 and .30. And people do build a tolerance with alcohol which allows them to not feel some of the side effects of alcohol until they are further gone. Considering the databook has as one of her favorite foods “alcohol” it’s safe to assume she has a good tolerance and that my calculations aren’t misled. Yet she manages all of the following in such a state.
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Given how slowed her response time should have been, and given how her muscle control and balance should have been affected as well this is a solid reaction feat.
The next feat I would like to use involves the current war arc. She hasn’t really been shown much in action since part 1 so this would be the place to display her skills. We can agree that when the gokage where put to sleep they were here
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Yet Tsunade quickly cleared that distance.
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Which is what led to Madara comparing her and A’s speed. She is slower. I do not and cannot argue that. But she is quick nonetheless.
Since we are discussing A let us take a moment to thoroughly delve into Tsunade’s speed feats in relation to A. For the second example, we’ll use a coordinated attack between Mei, Oonoki, A and Tsunade. Tsunade is clearly on the ground as Mei’s Suiton extinguishes the Katon and tosses Madara and his susanoo in the air. Tsunade is not seen anywhere in the vicinity to Madara whereas Oonoki and Madara are on panel coming to hit the susanoo. Directly afterwards, Tsunade kicks the Susanoo. Ay and Oonoki did not knock the Susanoo back to Tsunade as they are all right next each other after Madara’s susanoo is sent flying.
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That sequence of events shows Tsunade’s speed because she was able to arrive at the same place as the Raikage just after he arrived.
In base, when Tsunade jumped to block Madara’s Katon she made it much farther in a short period of time than he made it when he tried to save her. The point that the Raikage was trying to reach was the exact same spot yet he only made it past Oonoki.
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This would indicate that she is faster than his base because she covered more distance. And in terms of reaction times, Tsunade was able to react faster than Mei was. And she was able to determine Mei could not react in time and was able to think of and enact a functioning way to save the other kage. When Madara was about to attack the kage Tsunade was the only member of the kage to react.
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Finally, Tsunade and A were able to completely approach Bee and Naruto in such a quick manner neither Bee nor Naruto saw it coming and both were barely able to react.
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I do not subscribe to databook stats of any sort because they have discrepancies. I could name several but that will come later. The point I want to establish now is that Tsunade can hit people who are considered faster than her; some by the databook, and others just by the general populous. Shizune has a 4 in the databook and when she threatened to stop Tsunade even if she had to die trying; she was inviting Tsunade into a fight. Yet she was completely unable able to respond when Tsunade attacked.
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Many consider Jiraiya to be much faster than Tsunade. The databook, which I will address soon, places him a whole tier above Tsunade in speed. Yet Jiraiya recounts on several instances, that Tsunade was able to hit him.
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And if he was looking directly at her peeping and she still managed to catch him though he was looking directly at her that would definitely be a better feat for Tsunade. What we can say then is that Tsunade can hit him. That's not a question. Why would Jiraiya allow himself to almost be beat to death, like he said after that beating he was on the brink of death. What happened to him is not the same thing as Sakura hitting Naruto. Naruto is never seriously injured by Sakura. Tsunade seriously injured him to the point that he almost died. Even if he didn't fight back as hard as possible, would you believe that he didn't try his hardest to avoid Tsunade's strikes? It's not as if he didn't know about Tsunade's strength. He was her teammate and friend. Furthermore, for him to have broken ribs, and both arms broken she would have needed to hit him more than once.
This will be the weakest argument I use for speed or reflexes. People think that Tsunade could never hit Orochimaru. This is simply not true. In this instance, yes he was surprised she could overcome haemophobia the same way an opponent would be surprised she withstood a death dealing blow. She was able to kick him before he could regain his senses. Thus, she could do something similar to others.
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On to the databook, the data book has several inconsistencies; especially with speed. For instance, Kakashi has a 4.5 in speed in the databook yet when he was running full speed he got blitzed by Kakuzu who had a 4 in speed.
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In turn, Kakuzu was almost nailed by Naruto who has a 3.5 in speed.
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In terms of stamina, Tsunade has a 4 yet she was capable of the feats described in the stamina section. Well Taz, healing the village in the way she did was calculated into having a 4 because 5 means you just have that much more chakra. Okay, but then why is it that Gaara who has a 5 in stamina had his chakra replenished by Tsunade. Who then went on to heal and replenish two other kage and she proceeded to fight, regenerate, and replenish some more.
Tsunade’s Intelligence:
As Tsunade is the world’s best doctor it should be obvious that she is indeed intelligent. However, I cannot make such a claim without backing it up. Because her medical knowledge is beyond apparent, I will speak more about her practical knowledge. One of the things Tsunade was praised for by Kabuto was her intelligence.
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What Kabuto says allows us to know that Tsunade had an excellent understanding of war and battle. She was the first of generations of people and multitudes of nations, who proposed having medical assistance in the field.
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From this we can gather that Tsunade’s understanding of was advanced she understood the necessity, and that was why Jiraiya said she was important in konoha’s victory in the second war. It’s also evident she knows what is necessary when fighting many enemies as she talked about covert ops, as well as fighting a few enemies such as in this war. She knew that for this kind of a battle, contrary to the ideas of Shikaku that Bee’s and Naruto’s strength would be necessary to win.
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In her rules for medical ninja, and in her instruction of Sakura we see her knowledge of battle.
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In combat she has created diversion for the enemy against Madara she used herself as a diversion.
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Tsunade is able to understand how motivation affects people and their performance on the battlefield.
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While Tsunade is an emotional person, she is able to rationalize and objectively analyze situations.
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Tsunade can reason on the motives of her enemies and spot traps ahead of time.
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Tsunade here indicates that she didn't just stick Yamato with team Kakashi for kicks and giggles nor just because of him being powerful, but also because he mokuton includes Chakra suppression.
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Tsunade also shows that she knew that if the Hidden Leaf really crumbled then Naruto would be in grave danger, thus he had to fight to defend it if he had any chance in being safe.
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In stressful situations Tsunade has managed to provide quick leadership the has a solid plan of defense. And she knew a means to hand out information instanteously is paramount. And therefore, she knows the value of information and thus would strive to obtain it through whatever means necessary.
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Tsunade has also shown her ability to think up counters to enemies unusual abilities once she has information on them.
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As opposed to most people Tsunade was able to perceive that Pein was about to launch a large scale attack.
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Her attention to detail allows her to quickly analyze and make deductions.
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She is intelligent enough to be highly deceptive when she so chooses.
