Don't think that's quite fair.
Also again, i'm not saying Kin VS was the most impressive tactical feat BUT the purest example of a tactical fight in the series. She was cocky and way too into her strategy to think about outside factors- it's a recurring personality fault of the Sound nin. It's not her being an absolute idiot, it's Shika using outside factors people wouldn't consider because he has so little variety to work with, thinking outside of the box if you will.
Anyway Hidan obviously is not a smart opponent, nobody is saying that. But the fact he was faced against somebody on a completely different power scale is what keeps it a tactical and balanced battle all the same, Hidan got matched badly.
I don't know about you but I personally consider Obito and Madara to be impressive people that Shikamaru's tactics and quick-thinking/formation worked against. You want more examples? Shikamaru hasn't really been in a position of command often throughout the series so you'll have to look to his desperation during the war, keeping everybody alive against the literal 10 tails and also to Shikaku- practically any moment he gets panel time in fact, leading the Leaf VS Kurama (Storm 3 but stay with me haha) to his dying tactical orders to his distribution of troops and work in HQ. On a huge scale, I find it hard to grasp how people do not think these guys are not tacticians...
When Shikamaru is leading others or has a range of high-level Jutsu at his disposal to work with, he's ridiculously capable and in his zone, just like his father. Not his own power unlike Sasuke sure, but that's the character's literal main trait and the point of his character. It is strange to contest against that Shelke as much as I respect you, I don't think the forums full of idiots for saying a character reliant on tactics is a tactician.
How is it not fair? Fooling a fool hardly takes much tactic. How can you even agree to this? How can one even compare Sasuke fooling Orochimaru and Danzo to Shikamaru luring fools into traps, and then place the latter on a higher pedestal? It makes no sense to me whatsoever.
You are also going off the tangent here. Whatever is shown on the panels is what's important. Whatever he
could have done is irrelevant at this point as the manga is over. Going by the evidence we have, Shikamaru's feats are borderline pedestrian. There is no proof that Kin is intelligent, in fact, her forgetting the location of the wall right behind her tells a great tale about that. Hidan is an idiot and I am not even trying to mock him.
Temari has only gained experience now. She wasn't all that intelligent either. So, that's two idiots he beat and one with a serviceable intelligence at best, and you have got five pages of stupidity from Nips and idiotic name-calling for a simple fact that Shikamaru has fooled fools. So, tell me, in your honest opinion; what's so special about a tactician who has created tactics around dull fools? You can be the judge here.
Tactics are build around the opponents one is dealing with. That is the whole point. Shikamaru faced weak, unintelligent opponents (or those that could be easily subdued with his technique), and Sasuke faced those that were either much more powerful or were at his power scaling and were highly intelligent ninjas, hence, the tactic comparison is quite apt and fair.
By feats, he isn't a better tactitian as every single battle requires that from the ninja. Not only that, 200 IQ is extremely rare; an IQ, he has never exploited or shown with his feats. Which was my whole point; one ninja has shown far better tactics and with quick-silver thinking. The other hasn't. Whatever his status is, is not relevant within the confines of the term 'battle tactics'. Also, I never stated that he isn't a tactician. I stated that Sasuke is better and Shikamaru isn't some grand one everyone makes him out to be. That is very different from refuting his status as a tactician.
