Why was Naruto rusty knowing that there was a threat greater than Kaguya around?

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Harashima tobirama sarutobi minato tsunade all had breaks when there were no wars yet unlike they never got rusty tsunade and sarutobi were still at the top of their game when war came and they held their own and didn't get beat down due to rust yet

naruto let's peace make him get rusty

We did not see Hashirama-Tobirama and Minato during their reign as Hokage so we don't know if they had to deal with paperwork or if they were rusty during that time. We saw an old Hiruzen who was rusty (primarily due to age but might also be because of his sedentary life). Tsunade was as Rusty as they come, making you doubt if the Sannin were ever close to being equal.
 

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Harashima tobirama sarutobi minato tsunade all had breaks when there were no wars yet unlike they never got rusty tsunade and sarutobi were still at the top of their game when war came and they held their own and didn't get beat down due to rust yet

naruto let's peace make him get rusty

Hashirama/Tobirama/Minato were all pretty much still in war time mode...the first two died during war and Minato hadn't even experienced peace time for more than a year...in comparison Naruto was better than ever after the time-skip to the Last.

Tsunade was rusty when Naruto and Jiraiya found her.

Sarutobi knew exactly who he was up against and the extent of their abilities and had been preparing to face Orochimaru since the forest of death part of the Chuunin exams.


Ten years of peace is a long time.
 

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We did not see Hashirama-Tobirama and Minato during their reign as Hokage so we don't know if they had to deal with paperwork or if they were rusty during that time. We saw an old Hiruzen who was rusty (primarily due to age but might also be because of his sedentary life). Tsunade was as Rusty as they come, making you doubt if the Sannin were ever close to being equal.

Hashirama/Tobirama/Minato were all pretty much still in war time mode...the first two died during war and Minato hadn't even experienced peace time for more than a year...in comparison Naruto was better than ever after the time-skip to the Last.

Tsunade was rusty when Naruto and Jiraiya found her.

Sarutobi knew exactly who he was up against and the extent of their abilities and had been preparing to face Orochimaru since the forest of death part of the Chuunin exams.


Ten years of peace is a long time.

Tsunade stated she was passed her prime. So her being rusty had to due with age.
 

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Naruto being rusty was Kishi's way of Nerfing him. Naruto didn't have any problems faces Adult and child Shin alone. In fact, all of his battles with them showed a increase in skills. He perfectly read and counter their attacks. Adult Shin couldn't any surprise Naruto when attacking him from his blind spot. Yet, when Sasuke enters the battle he gets stab by a sword all of a sudden he's rusty. Even Naruto's injury didn't make sense. One moment Naruto acting like he was going to die and the next he brushing the injury off likes it's nothing in base mode.
 

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Him being rusty was a plot device to make shin a threat. Just like how they made sasuke not be at full power. It was bullshit that didn't matter. Plus being rusty can be overcame in mere hours, if even that.
 

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Wouldn't he have trained for that?

You do know Sasuke called Naruto Hokage when he warned the Kages, Naruto becomes Hokage in or a couple of days before the day of Ch. 700, it mentions how special that day was and how Naruto said "Now" the village is his family. Kiba talked about how Kakashi resigned as Hokage which would have been well known had Naruto been the Hokage long. Naruto is shown to be really busy so it's not like he can go training; plot deem him not to use clones to train.
 

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Well, he probably did train during the Last era, but Kishi over hyped the hokage work so much that apparently he didn't have time to train lol!

Basically, Kishi turned Naruto into Gohan.
 
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You do know Sasuke called Naruto Hokage when he warned the Kages, Naruto becomes Hokage in or a couple of days before the day of Ch. 700, it mentions how special that day was and how Naruto said "Now" the village is his family. Kiba talked about how Kakashi resigned as Hokage which would have been well known had Naruto been the Hokage long. Naruto is shown to be really busy so it's not like he can go training; plot deem him not to use clones to train.

Hiruzen was referred to as the God of Shinboi when he was Hokage. He clearly wasn't before he became Hokage.
 
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Hiruzen was referred to as the God of Shinboi when he was Hokage. He clearly wasn't before he became Hokage.

Hiruzen became Hokage younger than Minato lol He's been Hokage before he reached his prime and long after he past his prime. Hiruzen also been through 3 World wars. He fought in the 1st war and made Hokage during that war, was Hokage as the Sannins fought in the 2nd war, and was still Hokage during the 3rd war which is where Minato's reputation shined. Hiruzen as an old man was said to be the strongest of the 5 Kages which were Gaara's dad, A, Oonoki, and either Yagura or Mei. Naruto has 10 years of peace as far as we know yet he's still the strongest Kage and ninja around.

Kishi could easily have Naruto have Tsunade, Kakashi, or Shikamaru to take over his Hokage duties for a day where Naruto can go train with Bee or any other strong ninja and Naruto's battle senses (only thing that was rusty) back up to par. Naruto can use clones to gain months-years worth of experiences in a day. Naruto at 16 used 200 clones while he was trying to learn FRS so adult Naruto can easily make more than that to train with. Make a clone to train in taijutsu with Lee, a clone to train in genjutsu resistance with Kurenai, a clone to train in weapon usage with Tenten, a clone to train in Kenjutsu with Bee, ect.... Naruto can literally be training in multiple different categories at once just like how he had 12 clones fighting in different battlefields as Naruto did his own thing.
 
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his uchiha dog is enough, he doesn't need to dirty his hands fighting fodders.
 
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