You factor in individual strength to gauge a groups strength..... That's how you gauge a groups stregnth, You can't gauge a groups strength without looking at the individuals within said group.
You don’t have to gauge individuals strength, make sure it’s above everyone you can think of before making a team that’s best for a particular thing. Shikamaru didn’t gauge anything, he simply said the group that he didn’t put them together was a good team becuase of its year break strength not becuase they were the stronger then anyone else.
Based on his statement, The group that was formed was the best in terms of combat strength, Meaning the individuals that made up said groups were the best on offer.
You solo’d your argument with your first sentence, the ground wasn’t formed.
They each volunteered and just showed up, there wasn’t a “gauging” process.
If you have a group in any catagory and claims they're the best crew,
you'd assume they are the best available at what ever that group were created to do.
If you have a group in any catagory that claims they're the best crew; it could also be becuase of what they can do with that others and not what they can do by themselves. You don’t know what Shikamaru ‘s chain of thought was when he said what he said because it could be based off of many things or a multitude of different versions of strength.
Doesn't matter if he chose them or not, His statement still holds. He clearly thought in terms of combat strength this team was the best
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It does matter if he choose them becuase yor entire argument this time has been based on him choosing them. Again your interpretation doesn’t make anything a fact, you say that he said the teams combat ability as whole was the best becuase they each are the best in combat and I say him saying the teams combat ability was the best wasn’t based on each one them being stronger then everybody else but instead the becuase of their teams combination.
Interpretations don’t equal facts and the fact is that the manga didn’t say either or so you saying their individually the best in combat ability compared to anyone else on the team isn’t a fact.
> the state where
all the gates have been opened
Show me where it's been confirmed lee has all 8 Gates?[/QUOTE]
Doesn’t matter he knows them and it can’t be confirmed unless hes ready to die but minus that are you telling me Chojuro can take 6th hate Lee in combat? The same Lee who landed attacks on edo Madara?