It failed because Minato's soul was already sealed. Hence why Kabuto cannot summon Hiruzen with Edo-Tensei now. You need both soul and DNA to summon an Edo.
Ok. Lets kick this up a notch. Lets go ALL the way back to the Chuunin exams. If Sasuke was paired to fight Neji would he have won? Absolutely not, if he couldn't beat Lee. Neji being a genius BRANCH member. Not even with the head family who had more access to training tools and techniques. This...
I meant the common sealing techniques. A not common sealing technique like dead demon sealing, but which character alive actually knows or could potentially know how to do it? Or there might be a sealing which you can separate a soul from a body permanently? BUT in order to seal Madara they have...
I think the only reason Hashirama won was because he knew what Madara's weakness was. Nobody else knows because nobody else alive really fought him, other than Oonoki. But that wasn't really a fight now was it?? lol
Ok. So we know that Edo-Madara seems to be way too OP. It happens. He seems to have plenty of high level ninjutsu at his disposal and we can definitely assume that he has high level genjutsu to go with it. Does that mean that Madara's weakness is his taijutsu? If not, what do you think his...
If it is clan against clan, with most of them being average (no MS or EMS) I would have to give it to the Hyuuga. Only because of the discipline and all of their knowledge hasn't been sealed away or put into some stone tablet. But is within the head of the main branch. Allowing for most members...
I don't recall any other character using the test... other than maybe Shikamaru, and I don't think it was to test for nature affinity either... I'll do research and post back to you.
They never told him because it was to protect him from being targeted by other villages for being the fourth's son. The manga backs this up. Minato and the 3rd agreed it should be that way until the time was right.
Also, imo that plan failed as atatsuki came after Naruto for being a host...
In essence Kakashi has all of the elements as his disposal ONLY if he has copied the technique before. If he has not copied i.e. a wind technique he cannot use wind element. Therefore he could potentially be a master of all elements, but at the same time not. He cannot manipulate or augment...
It would seem that Tobi's jutsu is closer to that of Kakashi's Kamui in the fact that they distort time and space using an alternate dimension. FTG and body flicker distort space, but not time as both are near instant.