- Kisame can heal heavy damages caused as long as he has Samehada here with him. As long as he can do this, Gaara's attacks are almost useless. Dude withstood and healed his chest being opened by V2 B.
- GSB eats chakra and gets stronger. Gaara would most likely use sand attacks to block Kisame's attacks especially with no intel here. Intel or not, this is another attack that can eat through Gaara's large sand attacks which makes it becomes stronger. Not an issue.
- A thousand sharks is quite large, what would Gaara do to effectively eliminate all the shark at once?
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when Kisame has water clones that replicate attacks he can use. This is a problem for Gaara.
- Let's not forget Kisame's reaction speed. Might Gai who's incredibly fast got reacted to with the Water prison which is difficult to penetrate
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-- another option of defense for Kisame.
- I don't agree with this Mei/Gaara point. Water is naturally weak against lightning and the full effect of water is subdued when lightning is involved. Check the bottom panel here and read the words
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- However, when used as a collaboration, water can work alongside lightning
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and like Mei and Ay showed. Gaara's sand was mixed in the water as a collaboration while it was functioning with Ay's lightning but when Gaara's sand was faced against water, we saw exactly what happened
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and only God knows the explanation one would give when the Jutsu here is explained by Kabuto in the bottom right
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so your "Gengetsu" point is of no use here when it's the hydrification technique from the Hozuki's(Which Kabuto had to alter since it turn into water) he evidently used there, that was undoubtedly what water did. Turning it straight into mud..I really wonder what the explanation here would be.
- Kisame reacted to the likes of V2 B and with him being able to flood the environment. Attacking with sand from underneath won't be happening. Attacking his hands and feet to restrict his feet would be diffculty considering his physical strength. Kimmimaro alone pulled out of sand coffin
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and Kisame physical prowess is immense when you read Yamato's words the bottom right
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and that's ignoring the fact that he was weakened by Gai's Hirudora and was in pain after just biting his own tongue. Let's not ignore the fact that sand binding coffin is a chakra infused sand attack and Samehada absorbs six tails worth of chakra at once
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which further makes it easier for Kisame to break through as the chakra easily makes the sand much stronger but then gets absorbed once it makes contact with Kisame.
- LOL at Gaara already being meters above the air before Kisame create clones out a large body of water or even create a large water dome in 2 panels
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..What even makes this sound funny is the fact that it's manga intel here so just riding upwards with his sand is not a good joke. Meanwhile if Gaara gets caught in the dome it's literally over. Jutsu spitting the water out quickly took B off his feet in that scan. There are also clones here to serve multiple purpose of throwing their own attacks and if you think Gaara is the only one that can go air bound, look at the middle left panel and tell me what's happening from one point to another point across the island?
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..The water prison enabled flight is what I can conclude.
- How about the fact that you need to realize that it Samehada can tie itself to Kisame strengthening the grip if it wishes in a similar manner like in the middle here with B
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and there's the fact that Kisame can just merge making that difficult. End of the day, clones and large techniques that can counter the sand. Water can make it wet like I showed and Kisame can continually absorb his sand chakra, break through if Gaara tries to restrain him and further have his clones counteract forcing Gaara on the defensive since they all can absorb chakra. If the Dome comes out, Gaara loses especially with no intel on this. Random flight isn't happening when he doesn't know what's coming and with multiple distractions, anticipating this is difficult.