Ah yes, a random gif of Sakura punching Sasori. Completely invalidates my argument, you're right.
Totally fair point,
of course we can ignore literally everything else that happened in the fight. I concede. /s
Your wrong actually as sakura destroyed hiruko
A: I never denied Sakura can punch really hard.
B: Sakura on her own was incapable of landing that punch.
C: This was Chiyo's plan, Chiyo stopped Hiruko's tail, and Chiyo was still puppeting Sakura.
D: You might as well say Sakura could beat Nagato if he wasn't allowed to attack back or defend himself.
the third kazekage puppet
Which I fairly addressed. Obviously this doesn't matter to you, because you seem to have ignored 90% of my argument just as you seem to ignore 90% of the actual fight that happened. Sakura would be incapable of reaching this point, or landing that hit, without Chiyo carrying her there. I pointed out how many times Sakura would have died to Sasori's variety of attacks were it not for Chiyo. I pointed out the times were the Kazekage puppet's attacks were explicitly too fast for Sakura to react to. I pointed out how it was impressive that Sakura pulled off this plan and made the antidote. And most importantly I pointed out how none of that applies to other characters because no other character could ever be in that position, so you can't use it as an anti-feat for Sasori.
and most of his hundred puppet army
lol, Sakura is showing destroying a grand total of ....
one of Sasori's hundred puppets in the manga. And while she does so, another puppet is coming up behind her and - surprise surprise - Lady Chiyo steps in with one of her puppets to save Sakura. This also leaves an opening for Sasori
who immediately lands a strike on Chiyo and has her poisoned.
The anime makes it seem like much more of an epic fight (rather than Chiyo and Sakura being instantly overwhelmed), which is fair to use, but it still makes a point of Chiyo doing most of the work, having to protect Sakura, and Sasori still overwhelming them even though he can't even pay attention to all of them at once. "Most" of the 100 are *not* destroyed and Sasori still has plenty left over when they attempt to seal him.
And again, I think it's quite obvious that by this point Sasori has proven - if nothing else - that Sakura alone would not have stood a chance against Sasori. Chiyo is literally doing - at worst - 10x the work Sakura is doing here, and they still are completely losing the fight. This isn't some "oh wow, they are beating Sasori" moment, this is a "oh ****, we need to stop this right now or we are done for" moment; which is why they go all in on the sealing thing.
And finally, my point was that Sakura had done nothing
up to the point I stopped talking about it. I never denied Sakura started helping more against the giant Iron Sand cube/pyramid attacks, or against the Sasori or 100 puppets. It's simply my belief that based on what we have seen of the character, and what we know of how the fight ends, that he is no longer truly trying to win here.
Never stated whatsoever infact the contrary was stated as chiyo said let's end this to which sasori agreed meaning that they did intend to kill one another
Of course they intended to kill each other, were you not paying attention at all? This fact has little bearing on how hard Sasori felt he needed to try, little bearing on how seriously he was fighting his grandma and some little girl. In his own words he didn't think they'd get this far. If he was playing this fight completely seriously from the start he would have just spammed any of the Iron Sand attacks that actually worked. He would have started with the 100 from the start. He could have done all kinds of things but didn't think he needed to. And again, the guy literally commits suicide (and/or is so emotionally compromised he can't fight effectively) like 2 minutes later, hopefully I don't need to explain why that would affect how he's fighting.
all feats and statements say otherwise like chiyo even states that sakura is able to read and react to sasori's attacks
... Uh.. yeah...
I guess if you ignore the 10 attacks before that one... and ignore the fact that Chiyo was puppeting her to get that far... and ignore the fact that Sakura was given dozens of attempts to learn it... and ignore the fact that Sasori simply switches to a different type of attack and she completely fails to dodge it. Sasori even mentions that he'll have to use a bit of chakra to end it, implying he was using the giant cube attacks not because they were particularly strong or fast but simply because he thought it was the cheapest way to do it - in other words, he's not trying very hard.
Sure.
''Sasori saw my attack but could not avoid it'' that what was said, This notion that he wished to die is complete headcanon as it's never mentioned anywhere in the story
Maybe you haven't ever picked up on this, but the story doesn't have to explicitly say something word for word for it to be true. Pretty much everybody agrees that Sasori wasn't trying his hardest and commit suicide at the end here. I really don't know how to explain this to you?
And if you look at the rest of the context, Chiyo onlys says that in response to Sakura telling her that she finally did it (beat Sasori)
and Chiyo contradicts her, and tells her that 'no, I should have lost, he saw the attack'. And you can tell even Sakura picks up on the implication just based on her expression/reaction.
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As for the rest, I really don't feel like arguing over it.
FWIW though, I appreciate the debate. Always nice to find new Naruto discussion, and this will be my second post here.
Don't mean to come across as rude either but these Sasori debates are a personal pet peeve of mine.
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To answer the prompt, I strongly believe Sasori can beat the giant bird...
if for no other reason than because of how strong I think the Iron Sand is.