I appreciate anyone bothering to analyze Temari. Most forget she exits in the manga or just talk about how hot she is.
But I do think you overate Temari. And this is coming from the biggest Temari fangirl on the planet who loves to defend her. Her databook stats are okay. Not great. Okay. And she is two to three years older than the rest of the kids you are comparing her to.
The greatest thing you can say about her is that she thinks she is the strongest wind user among the Alliance. Which is saying something. Unfortunately that didn't matter much, now did it?
Another problem with your analysis is that a much lesser version of Shikamaru has already beaten Temari once. A Shikamaru with no offensive jutsu and a jacket beat her. Temari measures herself against Shikamaru and says that her most wanted fight is a rematch against him. That is because she knew she lost their first fight.
Shikamaru knowing everything about Temari greatly benefits him. Shikamaru has no real secrets or set pattern to the way he fights. He thinks and creates on the fly as shown in their fight. Shikamaru wants to turn every fight into a chess(shogi) match.
Remember, Shikamaru let Temari feel she found a pattern to his attacks and let her gain a false sense of security. He was moving 5 steps ahead of her. Shikamaru judged she was intelligent and planned accordingly. Her let her think she figured him out.
She would face the same exact problems if they fought again. She can never out-think Shikamaru Nara. She might not even be able to out-maneuver Shino.
Temari was suppose to destroy Shikamaru in that fight. He was never suppose to outclass her. He was a huge underdog. But he would be the favorite if they fought again.
Temari is also three years older than Shikamaru. Shikamaru at 19 will be much more highly thought of than Temari is now.
Rank is pretty much meaningless now. Temari is a jonin who hasn't accomplished much of anything in Shippuden. While Shikamaru has taken out one Akatsuki and helped take out another. While also helping take out Kinkaku in biju form with an Ino-Shika-Cho formation. Temari's accomplishments in Shippuden are nothing compared to his. Unless you count standing next to Gaara a huge accomplishment. If you just want to base this on rank, than Shikamaru looks way more like a jonin than she does.
And let me ask you this. Why did Gaara name a chuunin over his jonin sister to be his proxy commander for the 4th Division? Even Gaara respects him more.
Not true if you go by what Kishimoto has written. First off, Temari and Shikamaru's stats in the databook are just about equal even though Temari has an age advantage. Shikamaru was the star of his own arc which was basically a coming of age story. Kishimoto was showing us how much he improved. Temari is the one who has shown little in Shippuden.
You really think Shika, Shino, Lee, Sai, etc, are just going to stand there and let her spam wind just through her fan? They are also going to attack. But back to Shikamaru. He is smart enough to gauge the distance of her wind. And he can also counter with shadow sewing and Asuma's chakra knives. Temari is also going to be on the move. If she gets caught, it is over.
I don't know what Itachi and Sasuke have to do with this. You can't really look at things that way. Shikamaru had a 5 in intelligence when he was 12. Kakashi has fanboyed his intelligence. Shikamaru is said to have an over 200 I.Q. which is a real world number and means his intelligence cannot be measured. No one is going to have his potential for intelligence. Not anyone. The gap between Shikamaru and Temari is HUGE. That said, she is the smartest of the female chuunin exam kids. Although Sakura fans will argue different.
BTW, never take what Shikamaru says too seriously. He thinks everyone is better than him or has better jutsu. That is part of his character. But when the chips are down he proves himself to be among the best.
Anyway, posting this since I'd much rather see them do this than fight.
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