Ten Ten was vastly under developed

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Hello and welcome to the discussion. Fellow naruto lovers ten ten was very much underdeveloped. I understand that only certain characters can have screen time and shown developing and there is the main plot to follow. Regardless of that fact others like Lee and neji have grown stronger. lot of people say ten ten is weak she can only use weapons, imaginary facepalm do you know how dangerous weapon users are in naruto there are so many its unbelievable.

I will list a few, mifune the samurai who only uses a sword and can hold his own against atrokng opponents, zabuza, seven deadly swordsmen, hayato a ninja from early on is shown using advanced techniques from the get go and kakashi freaking kakashi with a kunai and zabuzas sword. The point being these are all very dangerous weapon wielders. Ten ten is meant to be a master yet can only through ranged weapons against opponents what horsecrap. Naruto and sasuke used better ranged weapon techniques against zabuza in part one. I just saw a video on YouTube of neji vs ten ten and she was way better than they make her out to be in manga (yes I know its only a video).

The way her character should have been made or at least developed is that she can use multiple weapons at close range like katana,sais, go staff etc maybe have some mid range weapons like kunai with chain etc and long range weapons like shurikens, kunais, explosive weapons. She could add some variety by learning to infuse chakra like asuma, develop traps like shikamaru did with hidan etc and lastly developed some of her own unique weapons to surprise opponents and she would have been really powerful and be able to keep up with most opponents but oh no we just get a kunai spamming ninja who has only one technique and an obvious one at that. What do you guys think and who do you think could have been better developed, please explain :)
 

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As you said - underdeveloped. That is the main. . . problem. . . if you wanna call it as so, that Tenten's character has. Not everyone need to (more like has to), be so strong for a story (as in a whole) to be good. :yeah:
 

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Tenten being underdeveloped in one of the most accepted facts of this manga sadly.
 

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I don't think so. She has nothing else to offer to the story.
 

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As you said - underdeveloped. That is the main. . . problem. . . if you wanna call it as so, that Tenten's character has. Not everyone need to (more like has to), be so strong for a story (as in a whole) to be good. :yeah:

I get where your coming from but imagine for a second rock Lee was just some guy fighting agianst ninjas with nothing remotely special about him and you have ten ten a character there to be beat on
 

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Her fighting style was very good though. Would have liked to see her team up with Rock Lee to provide him with weapon support. Rock Lee trying out each of her weapons in battle. Showing us his amazing speed in weaponary.

Rock Lee and Tenten vs Suigetsu's brother would have been an amazing match up.
 

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Made Tenten a weapon craftsmen err craftswoman and master of them, could easily showed who made the 7 swordmen's weapons or even Yata/Totsuka and had them teach tenten. Tenten could have had that as her perk and then we could get more info overall but eh too much work for a side character.
 

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Her fighting style was very good though. Would have liked to see her team up with Rock Lee to provide him with weapon support. Rock Lee trying out each of her weapons in battle. Showing us his amazing speed in weaponary.

Rock Lee and Tenten vs Suigetsu's brother would have been an amazing match up.

You bring up another good point Lee never bothers to use weapons despite how easy it would be for him and how formidable he would become at least a couple of shuikens to develop his ranged offense
 

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It's not like 1010 herself is the issue, it's that like 80% of the characters mentioned in the manga got really poor developlment.
 

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You bring up another good point Lee never bothers to use weapons despite how easy it would be for him and how formidable he would become at least a couple of shuikens to develop his ranged offense

Rock Lee is easily the most closest things you can get to martial arts in this manga. He already mastered the drunken style. His next step should have been mastering the art of weapon weilding. The best character to support him for this would be Tenten. Him being in his drunken form would have made him unstoppable. I could see him fighting in a similiar fashion as Killer Bee.
 

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I get where your coming from but imagine for a second rock Lee was just some guy fighting agianst ninjas with nothing remotely special about him and you have ten ten a character there to be beat on

Well Tenten's Unsealing technique is somewhat unique to her. . . since there was only one other Ninja shown using it. . . and here fighting style too.
 

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Well Tenten's Unsealing technique is somewhat unique to her. . . since there was only one other Ninja shown using it. . . and here fighting style too.

Also her dream was to be known as the strongest Konoichi as Tsunade.
 

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Well Tenten's Unsealing technique is somewhat unique to her. . . since there was only one other Ninja shown using it. . . and here fighting style too.

I must rewatch some of her fights I don't recall this style you keep mentioning :)
 

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She can summon 100s of ninja tools from her scroll. Most of your suggestions she actually did do in fillers and such (as far as the manga, her skill set wasn't displayed much but it should've been understood she could summon more than kunai).

I like the idea of adding chakra but it wasn't that great when Asuma did it, it won't chant much about her arsenal either. She'll just have a bunch of ninja tools with chakra. And learning to handle multiple weapons at once, without her scroll, takes away from the emphasis of the scroll. It's like Sai using beast scroll techniques without the scroll.

Don't get me wrong I like TenTen I really do. I used to think "man she doesn't get fair development kishi needs to develop her" but after awhile I just kinda realized there just isn't much to develop with her. She's an excellent ninja tool user. Ninja tools just aren't that relevant in the manga. The Sages tools weren't even that important beyond the GS bros. Mifune and the 7 swordsman had a few moments, but hardly notable in the grand scheme of the war.

I get that her lack of panel time makes it hard to know what she can really do compared to other ninja, buy you'd have to go out of your way to develop her into something meaningful in a manga all about ninjutsu, genjutsu, great bloodlines etc. She's not so much underdeveloped as there's not so much you can develop when a person's specialty is only something we've seen fodder die from. Tweak her fighting style a bit? Add new tools? Chakra tools? Still lipstick on the same ol pig
 
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I must rewatch some of her fights I don't recall this style you keep mentioning :)

Oh, yeah, another thing. . . Tenten is not that of a normal Ninja you would think. . . she used the Banana Palm Fan to destroy Kakuzu's lightning mask. . . a weapon that was owned by the Sage of Six Paths and drains Chakra as F*******K. :yeah:
 

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Oh, yeah, another thing. . . Tenten is not that of a normal Ninja you would think. . . she used the Banana Palm Fan to destroy Kakuzu's lightning mask. . . a weapon that was owned by the Sage of Six Paths and drains Chakra as F*******K. :yeah:

I remember that, they told her to stop using it or she could did from chakra exhaustion
 

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Everyone from K11 was besides Naruto....
 

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Yeah I woulda liked if they woulda went more in depth with ten ten's and sakuras clans. also kiba and shinos clan coulda used some more development. ten ten was absolutely the least developed K11 character in naruto
 
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