Naruto and Sasuke could have kept their hands.

[HowDidIGetPrem]

All Naruto had to do was K.O. Sasuke a bit earlier in the fist fight, but Kishimoto made sure Naruto depleted most of his reserves and Bijuus during the war and vs Kaguya while Sasuke chilled in the desert. Imagine Naruto doing this in the fist fight:

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Or this:

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Or retaining 100's of clones worth of chakra.

But it's clear Kishimoto intended for them to lose their arms as some symbolic sign like that heart.

 

[MomoSaka]

Naruto solos
I don't think Boruto would even have a chance to surpass Naruto if he still got his sun seal.

 

[Styles]

Fanfic too stronk.

 

[Sauce]

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But Sasuke keeps his rinnegan

 

[Darth AniCetuS]

Yup Naruto was nerfed in favor of plot.

 

[HowDidIGetPrem]

Fanfic too stronk.

What part seems like fanfic? When I said Sasuke chilled in the desert, I didn't mean it literally. Honestly shouldn't have included it because some people have a hard time catching sarcasm. I think that's the only part that seems odd.

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But Sasuke keeps his rinnegan

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

Yup Naruto was nerfed in favor of plot.

Not really nerfed. Kishimoto made sure Naruto showed tons of feats with his abilities before draining him for Sasuke.

 

[salamander uchiha]

Bad trollfic

 

[Queen of Bananas]

But then Naruto would not have been able to transmit the HIV virus to Sasuke. :|

 

[Uverdore9]

Sasuke was nerfed in favor of plot. He can use chidori nagashi, chidori senbon, chidori spear, Tailed beast solo illusion, Sakura solo illusion(made her sleep some 8 hours) to solo the hell out of the shitty trash Spsm mode. Naruto used up all the chakra the nine tails collected for him and nine tails chakra combined yet lost. Naruto also had all the tailed beasts chakra in lesser amounts than Sasuke. certain fool thinks illusions won't work on Naruto when it worked on Sakura who's confirmed resistant to illusions and broke an illusion which one shotted Naruto and Nine tails together. What an irony based BS statement. But he loves what if statements too much so what would you expect, pulling out BS stupid excuses to justify Naruto not going all out when Sasuke was fecking nerfed and only tried defeating Naruto with that nerfed version. "Sasuke didn't use this do it must not work". Chidori blade doesn't work when chidori works? Naruto got one shotted by a weaker illusions, he wouldn't sleep for days long, at Sasuke's? What a foolish notion.

 

[Guntah]

You wanna hear an unpopular opinion?

Both were nerved, not for the plot's sake, but because Kishimoto had five chapters to wrap up the story and couldn't go through every single thing in Naruto and Sasuke's arsenal. No matter what Naruto or Sasuke used, the fight would've ended the same way, just because in the end it was all about driving a point home about them being each other's equal.

 

[Sagebee]

You wanna hear an unpopular opinion?

Both were nerved, not for the plot's sake, but because Kishimoto had five chapters to wrap up the story and couldn't go through every single thing in Naruto and Sasuke's arsenal. No matter what Naruto or Sasuke used, the fight would've ended the same way, just because in the end it was all about driving a point home about them being each other's equal.

How was sasuke nerfed to me kishi presented sasuke as his strongest self while Naruto wasn't allowed to use full abilities.

 

[Guntah]

How was sasuke nerfed to me kishi presented sasuke as his strongest self while Naruto wasn't allowed to use full abilities.

Sasuke's arsenal is immense, far bigger than what was shown in that fight, and that's without even mentioning the possibilities him having a Rinnegan possessed for a fight like this.

 

[Dark Ryu]

It would be still a bijuu power against Sasuke, but if Rinnegan wasnt nerfed as it was Naruto wouldnt even stand a chance to beat the Rinnegan full power and Sasuke could easily swap places with Naruto whenever he used the attack to attack Sasuke.

 

[Kakooli]

Sasuke could have. It's called izanagi bobito's sharingan dimension could have replaced his ms no biggi... but ofc kishi had to give naruto a draw after 308 loses in a row to sasuke in teh series

 

[Mori Jin]

Of course Naruto was nerfed. Sasuke had every plausible advantage and still couldn't win.