Sakura biggest strength when it comes to being smart in combat is her healing field. Sakura is only known to being smart when it comes to her studies mainly on Human Anatomy which healing is her prodigy.
The thread itself counters that.
Sakura isn't efficient in combat, she mostly had to deal with a way to defend herself but she also need to be in tactician and battle strategy wise which she's does not utilized in .
Also countered by the first post.
Only those who unlock the Hyakugou Seal can go in battle front line, and when she does, Sakura usually straight up being reckless, as such this really holds Naruto & Sasuke down when she try to act as a decoy yet she had no idea and got completely annihilated by Madara.
She went like that because she was the bait, Sasuke and Naruto were supposed to attack exploiting Sakura's regenerative techniques. Sasuke followed the plan but got countered by a Limbo, Naruto, ignoring Sakura's powers, went to rescue her. Nothing would have happened to Sakura, not if Madara was only going to stab her or push her away, that was the whole idea of using the seal, to serve as a shield or a diversion.
In almost every situation, Sakura always think herself trying to be useful by acting like she knows what she's doing but in the end she always cause herself in trouble.
Yup, getting saved is part of being the heroine. Every shounen has one.
Sakura is pale in comparison compare to Neji, Kakashi, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Kabuto and or Itachi.
Pale? I disagree about her being inferior to Sasuke or Kabuto when it comes to intelligence, even Naruto said she was better tactician than her. Of course Sasuke, got more panel time and more battles, so he got to show her intelligence more often, buy by hype and praises from other characters, Sakura is smarter.
Sakura may no be smarter than Shikamaru when it comes to battle feats, but she is when it comes to book smart feats.
Even Naruto who was considered to be the number #1 knucklehead is alot smarter than Sakura. Naruto always have tricks behind his sleeve and was able to overcome almost every opponents by being the most unpredictable ninja.
Naruto himself admitted she was better than him. But yes, by feats in the manga, since Naruto had many more fights and panel time, he has more feats than her in this or any area than any character actually...
Look. I'm aware you're not too fond of what zeref is saying here. But all in all he's right. People will place a heavier emphasis on the feats of characters they find more favorable. Does she have battle smart feats??? Sure...but..the thing is the entire premise behind the "feat system" is the it's meant to draw attention to accomplishments that characters had in comparison to their peers and whether or not they were able to exceed their peers. Sakura has accomplishments the problem is her accomplishments don't out number naruto's sasuke's kakashi's, itachi's madara's...the list goes on. Based on the fact that the feat system is utilized to determine a characters capacity to "neg diff" on the battlefield compared to their peers then yeah...sakura ranks pretty low on the list. And really her "battle smart feats" are not all that impressive because it was explicitly stated in the series she has smarts. That's what those battle feats are...battle smarts. But the problem is that her battle smarts didn't really a huge role compared to naruto's like in the ninja war. She healed people and that's nice..but the truth is naruto could heal people too after his power up so and again one of the purposes behind calling a "feat" a "feat" is that there's differentiation between the person and their peers.
I understand all that. Of course the men had more feats, and more relevant and flashy as always, this is a shounen for men readers after all.
My thread wasn't about making her look like the character with most intelligent feats in the manga or anything, I know she isn't. Characters like Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Itachi, etc had many more fights than Sakura, that gave them the chance of displaying the feats they have now. I only wanted to make people realize how many smart feats Sakura has, even if she only had one big fight to shine.
It's also true she was praised to be a smart character all along the manga. Naruto even said she was better tactician than Sesuke.