Whatever happened to this regular sharingan power?

[beansupreme]

We were introduced to the sharingan thanks to Kakashi's fight against Zabuza, in which he used it to mimic Zabuza's jutsu. Much later, Sasuke used the Sharingan to mimic Lee's taijutsu. But after that, no sharingan users ever really used it to mimic an opponent.
Did Kishi forget about this original power of the sharingan after introducing the more complex forms such as the Mangekyo, etc? In what ways could the option to mimic opponents have recently helped Kakashi, Sasuke, Obito, or Madara?

 

[Gagster]

There have been less things it can mimic, stronger opponents used unique techniques the sharingan cannot copy.

 

[bsims08]

We were introduced to the sharingan thanks to Kakashi's fight against Zabuza, in which he used it to mimic Zabuza's jutsu. Much later, Sasuke used the Sharingan to mimic Lee's taijutsu. But after that, no sharingan users ever really used it to mimic an opponent.
Did Kishi forget about this original power of the sharingan after introducing the more complex forms such as the Mangekyo, etc? In what ways could the option to mimic opponents have recently helped Kakashi, Sasuke, Obito, or Madara?

I thought it was amazing when it was used just for copying techs and genjutsu

 

[CloyEscapade]

Didn't need to. Zambia fight seems like it was just to show what he could do. Maybe he just setup PS copy years ago

 

[Ambivalence]

First off, grats on your first post.

Secondly, a common trait of Shounen, and especially Naruto, is that when a newer power is introduced, the old one gets less and less screentime. This is done in order to both add variation to fights and for power-balance. It'd just be really easy if Sharingan users could copy and utilize anything. I guess you can also argue that, save for Kakashi, Uchihas never really copied anything. Last thing Sasuke copied was Lee's taijutsu, i believe Uchihas just use its predictive capabilities more than anything, because of pride or whatever.

 

[beansupreme]

Thank you!
Also, what you say about new vs. old powers does make sense in other contexts. For example, Naruto uses the rasen-shuriken so much that I forgot what a regular one looks like lol. Same as how Sasuke doesn't use the Chidori variant he learned from Kakashi anymore.

 

[Gagster]

Thank you!
Also, what you say about new vs. old powers does make sense in other contexts. For example, Naruto uses the rasen-shuriken so much that I forgot what a regular one looks like lol. Same as how Sasuke doesn't use the Chidori variant he learned from Kakashi anymore.

What? That's Sasuke's main technique, he just used it last chapter.

 

[Styles]

Thank you!
Also, what you say about new vs. old powers does make sense in other contexts. For example, Naruto uses the rasen-shuriken so much that I forgot what a regular one looks like lol. Same as how Sasuke doesn't use the Chidori variant he learned from Kakashi anymore.

​He didn't learn any variants from Kakashi tho but i see yur point.

 

[beansupreme]

What? That's Sasuke's main technique, he just used it last chapter.

Well this is embarrassing. Scratch that part out! I don't know why I felt like he used the chidori blade technique

 

[beansupreme]

​He didn't learn any variants from Kakashi tho but i see yur point.

Yeah instead of variant I should have said original