If I look at the scan correctly, I realize that the epicentre of the blast, where Sakura is located, is hidden from the viewer's eye. We can't even see Sakura in that scan, that is how much devastation was caused and the most important part of the devastation was hidden from us. If you look closely, large number of
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were sent high vertically, some as far above at elevations at 100 m. Everything within the red boxes are Juubi fodders BTW. Those massive ruptures which were created reached as high as 80 m so don't try to downplay this. The
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shows the height of these massive pointy ruptures.
Good point, I agree that the smoke cloud can conceal Neji's location. However, Sakura will already know Neji's location before punching the ground, and afterwards, he'll still be at the same location except in the air. Once she reaches Neji's previous location, all it takes is her to wait for Neji to fall back down and smash him into oblivion.
As for Sakura allegedly "not being able to react" to the Juubi fodder because of the smokescreen. Well first off, she wasn't even looking in the direction of the Juubi fodder. She was busy showing off her new power to her teammates. Regardless, there was an
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on her head signifying she knew that the Juubi fodder was right next to her despite the fact it wasn't within her line of sight.
Naruto and Sasuke being able to strike the Juubi clones before Sakura could doesn't mean Sakura herself couldn't have guarded herself if it wasn't for Naruto and Sasuke.
Neji having Byakugan to see and trace her movements doesn't mean much when he has no way of defending himself.
Already dealt with this in my previous post. I guess it pushes the difficulty to mid but that doesn't mean Neji wins this fight, not a chance.
That thin layer of chakra isn't parrying against a punch which is at least strong enough to destroy ribcage susanoo considering Tsunade's weaker punch managed to crack open a fully formed
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. Ay could barely crack open Sasuke's
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. That
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is nothing compared to a punch from Tsunade, let alone Sakura, and the fact is, Neji's chakra cloak that guarded a punch from part one base Naruto is far weaker than ribcage susanoo. A Kyuubi chakra cloak Naruto managed to deal damage to Neji who was in the process of an
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. That
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is even weaker than Ay's, which is weaker than Tsunade's, which is weaker than Sakura's yet it still caused Neji to
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.
In summary: Sakura's punch>Tsuande's punch>Madara's ribcage susanoo>MS Sasuke's ribcage susanoo>Raikage's punch>Naruto's punch>Neji's chakra cloak.
The arrow was shot at least 50 m away from Neji and he still got hit by it, is this supposed to be an impressive speed feat? None of this proves that Sakura is that much slower than part one Neji and by virtue of power scaling, current Sakura should have speed on par with part one Neji considering the fact her ability to use chakra to
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increased as a result of attaining the Yin seal which grants her
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that allowed her to heal
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.
The arrows are fast, sure but they were shot at Neji from a pretty large distance and lost momentum due to going through many trees. Him having a Byakugan and the Juuken style doesn't make his reaction time high, are you serious?
Anyway here are some of Sakura's speed feats:
1. Sakura drops sleep gas bombs and immediately shunshins away from the poison gas a safe distance away (
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) unlike Sai who,
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, was unable to react (
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).
2. Sakura was
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against Juubi fisions. She managed to
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and travelled far away from her teammates. She also managed to catch up to the same Juubi fission she had previously sent flying away with her monster strength. The fission that was flying away was creating a
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which only happens when someone/something is travelling at massive speeds.
What intelligence feats does Neji even have? Sai, whose intelligence is on par with part two Neji's, who's above part one Neji in terms of intelligence by virtue of being older and wiser, realized what was up but still couldn't do anything and
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. I have yet to see anything like
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ever being an explosive in the manga. Since Sai, who is faster than part one Neji, who was fast enough to get behind Sasori and Deidara (
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)(
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)(
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), couldn't escape the gas even though he clearly saw it before the gas bombs hit the ground.
As for Neji being cautious of the smoke bombs... Well this is where Sakura's intelligence comes to play. In fights, there tends to be some type of conversation between the two sides and now imagine Sakura taunting Neji, saying that his eyes will get blinded by the smoke from her smoke bombs. Neji in part one was pretty cocky and may end up going through the smoke just to prove her wrong.
Furthermore, remember my previous argument about Neji being in mid air. If Neji ends up going in midair for the reasons stated previously in my post, what prevents Sakura from throwing these bombs at Neji's landing spot? Now he can't do anything about it.
When did I mention Katsuyu in my post? I said Sakura beats part one Neji mid difficulty without Katsuyu. With Katsuyu, it would be a low difficulty win for Sakura but the OP restricted Katsuyu so I won't touch upon her usefulness. Katsuyu being a support summon doesn't mean it won't be helpful in various ways in helping Sakura and defeating Neji. I'll only use Katsuyu in my argument against current Neji since Sakura can't beat current Neji without Katsuyu.