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Introduction 2012 - 2013 were the prime days for the Akatsuki - Literally everyone knew how strong Sasori, or Kisame, or Deidara truly were. But there was always that one underdog: Kakuzu. Sure in NB's prime years Kakuzu was somewhat known, and evaluated correctly (always being in Kisame's tier), but now due to un-knowledgeable members, and opinions he's been reduced to being below Sasori, Deidara, and even Konan - Kakuzu is far superior to all three candidates. This analysis will hopefully re-inform the majority as to why Kakuzu is, and will always be Kisame's rival in the tier placements.
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CQC CQC, also known as Close Quarter Combat is something Kakuzu is unmatched in regarding the Akatsuki. Literally, Kakuzu is the best Taijutsu user in the organization thanks to the very broken Kinjutsu: Jiongu. Jiongu allows the user to turn his/her body into a rag-doll composition; Tendrils - Kakuzu's body is made 99.95% of tendrils (0.5% being the five hearts he carries). What Jiongu allows Kakuzu to perform in Taijutsu is insane, and what directly puts him above every member in the Akatsuki in the art. Jiongu: Elongation: Kakuzu through Jiongu is capable of
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every tendril within his body - Meaning any possible range disadvantage/advantage can be attained easily. Mass Production: Kakuzu through Jiongu is capable of
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- Enabling him to produce as many tendrils as he sees fit. This means the opponent will need to focus on hundreds of
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tendrils that can not only travel at an amazing pace, but are neigh unpredictable; unorthodox.Physical Strength: Base: Kakuzu's base strength is monstrous, he's been shown to level a building with
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(roof to ground transition), well as not only blitz Kakashi, but send him
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.Enhancement: Through the enhancement known as Doton: Domu Kakuzu is able to harden any portion or his entirety into a diamond-like hardness. This enhancement allows him to achieve physical peaks previously unaccomplished - An example of this would be destroying what seemed like normal Iron Gates by the majority of NB members, but in fact they were much more. The Iron Gates guarding the Fire Temple were actually composed of a seal - This seal could only be undone by channeling the
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into it however, Kakuzu was shown to completely
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with sheer force.
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Elementals Kakuzu possesses the most elemental affinities within the Akatsuki organization, this alone makes him one of, if not the most dangerous of the ten members; along with his proficiency within the given four elements: Fire, lightning, wind, and earth. Doton: Domu:
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is the first of the four elemental jutsu Kakuzu possesses - This technique is by far the most hyped, and misunderstood of all of Kakuzu's techniques. Doton: Domu hardens Kakuzu's skin into that of diamond-like properties enabling him to accomplish great offensive, and defensive feats. Defensively Domu allowed Kakuzu to tank
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, well as
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without effort. The only weakness of Doton: Domu is Raiton, seeing as it's its elemental weakness, no other weakness can be confirmed as both manga, and databook state
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- Of course this excludes techniques that strike at the opponent internally eg; Gentle Fist, Preta Path etc. hence why the databook states "nearly" no other jutsu except Raiton can cause damage to Domu.With that in mind, Doton: Domu has no weakness, anything besides Raiton-based techniques, Gentle Fist, and Preta Path is pure speculation, and can be configured as "fanfiction". Fūton: Atsugai:
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is the second of the four elemental jutsu Kakuzu possesses - Fūton: Atsugai releases a highly condensed, tornado-like mass from within the Fūton mask. Once the compressed density is becomes too much, the wind chakra
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, destroying anything, and everything in its path. A common misconception is that Kakashi evaded the technique without warning which is completely wrong - Kakashi was able to escape Atsugai due to the Sharingan being able to see the color of chakra, well as chakra build up, as seen here the Fūton mask
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however, Kakashi was already alert of this. The
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saved Kakashi in that situation. If not for that, Kakashi would have died.Another version of Fūton: Atsugai is a pure blast of Fūton chakra from the Fūton mask; We'll call this
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. The Fūton chakra instantly explodes at the users' target, destroying anything in it's vicinity with a high-density of air mass. The application is of course slightly faster than the original version as it completely destroyed a kyuubi Naruto clone that was less than seconds from attacking Kakuzu. Raiton: Gian:
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is the third of the four elemental jutsu Kakuzu possesses - Gian is by far one of Kakuzu's strongest offensive techniques shown, it's ability to multiply, well as match two S-Rank techniques (Raikiri) while itself being a B-Rank technique further proves Kakuzu's perfection over the element. Raiton: Gian is able to multiple near infinite times as I've explained in the past here: Kakuzu's capabilities with Raiton: Gian are far underrated by many members on NB currently. The potential of this B-ranked jutsu was equal to that of Kakashi using TWO Raikiri's, why would Kakashi need to use 2 Raikiri's against a B-ranked Raiton Jutsu? Personally I believe rank placement on all of Kakuzu's techniques are incorrect being "B-ranked" anyhow this is getting off-topic. Here
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(S-rank) to counter Kakuzu's Raiton: Gian; a B-rank technique. Kakashi then went on to praise Kakuzu on his proficiency within his elemental affinities, but referred heavily to how he used his previously displayed Raiton technique: Gian:I want you guys to pay attention to the boxed in words: High Caliber, Perfectly, and Lightning. All fitting words, in which will furthermore prove that Kakuzu's Raiton: Gian ability shouldn't be underestimated like it is now. Kakashi had admitted that Kakuzu mastered, and performed a high caliber Raiton-based technique (Raiton: Gian), he later in his praising sentence goes on about stating that in order to have performed such a high caliber jutsu Kakuzu must have
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. So if Kakuzu had mastered his Raiton nature perfectly, and was able to execute Raiton: Gian to be able to multiply itself to
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(Shikamaru, and Choji) why exactly could he not execute more than two? I believe Kakuzu could emit a great amount of Raiton: Gian against a single, and/or multiple opponent(s). Take a look at this
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:Not only does the picture above support the idea of Raiton: Gian multiplying into many spear-like currents, but it basically blatantly hints to the public that it is perfectly capable of doing such a feat. Pay attention to the underlined words: Multiple, and Convergence. I'll be using the mathematical definition for convergence due to that fact that I'm talking about multiplying Raiton: Gian. Now yes, it is correct that Raiton: Gian has a finite (limit) however, it isn't measurable due to the dependency of the amount of opponents Kakuzu must be facing in order to determine the limit of Raiton: Gian. Kakuzu only multiplied Raiton: Gian by two because Shikamaru, and Choji were the only targets, and Ino was behind a tree so she wasn't in his line of sight. In conclusion it is assured that however, many opponents approach Kakuzu Raiton: Gian would multiply, and instantly kill them all. Due to the limit of the opponents not being infinite (which is impossible) Raiton: Gian would strike them all due to its non-measurable, but finite limitations. Katon: Zukokku:
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is the fourth of the four elemental jutsu Kakuzu possesses - This technique is initially a two part technique. Firstly the Katon mask drops a small condensed ball of fire onto the ground, which then wide-spreads across the ground taking away the enemies footing. Secondly the flames from the ground rise up into the atmosphere
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turning everything to ash. Another version of Katon: Zukokku is a pure blast of katon chakra from the Katon mask similar to the Fūton mask's lesser application; We'll call this
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. The small ball of fire explodes in the appointed direction, this application is much quicker than the original much more destructive version, as shown when Kakuzu destroyed a kyuubi Naruto clone which was less than a second away from performing an attack.
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Speed Though Kakuzu isn't one of the greatest speedsters within the manga, Kakuzu however, is actually one of the fastest in the Akatsuki organization by portrayal in regards to foot speed, and combative speed. Foot Speed: Being able to blitz
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, well as
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without them noticing - Those feats are somewhat impressive the latter more so than the former. Another impressive feat was Kakuzu
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, that's twice now that Kakuzu has completely out sped the copy ninja in their brawl. Kakuzu was able to also
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, where Asuma was guarding, as well Shikamaru & co. we're alert, and aware yet had no time to react. Then seconds later interpreted Asuma & co' plan of retreat, and
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before he could attempt to escape.Reaction Speed: Kakuzu was able to not only handle Naruto's clones as if they were nothing, but completely destroy two opposing shadow clones that were less than seconds away from assault him, by
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. Kakuzu was also shown that after being revived, he
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of tendrils to entrap Kakashi, Ino, and Choji in attempts to kill them all. Kakuzu, and Hidan were also able to
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to Shikamaru's shadow possession jutsu. This is simply a glimpse of what Kakuzu's speed feats, but overall Kakuzu is no slouch, especially not with 90+ years of experience under his belt.
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Intelligence Kakuzu by far is one if not the smartest shinobi within the entire manga having both battle, and knowledgeable experience of 90+ years. Kakuzu's been shown to give
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even in the midst of battle to Shikamaru, someone who he also gave the compliment of being an intellectual individual.Kakuzu's battle intelligence goes without saying, being able to
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the likes of the boy genius Shikamaru, by having an ace in the hole (his arm within the ground to remove the chakra sabre producing shadow possession jutsu on his shadow). Kakuzu is a keen analyst, and overall a very knowledgeable shinobi.
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Extras This section will simply be used to introduce a few extra things I've witnessed, or come to believe true with sufficient manga fact for the character Kakuzu. Levitation: At first I wasn't sure if Kakuzu could fly/levitate, but I'm 100% sure of it now. You see Kakuzu has actually been shown to send his
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, without the support of his tendrils. However, that still may not be enough to prove Kakuzu can fly/levitate - Kakuzu once in "
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" was shown to go airborne via jumping then crafting a kite-like body modification of which allowed him to
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. Kakuzu can fly/levitate, and so can his other masks.Physically Immune: Yes, it's already established that with Doton: Domu Kakuzu is virtually immune to any, and all physical techniques except for Raiton/Gentle Fist/Preta Path etc. however, their is another simple method if per say Kakuzu is lacking his Doton heart, or simply does not want to use such;
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. Yamato's wood release
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, not phasing him one bit as he managed to dodge effortlessly after the fact. Now take into hand that Kakuzu is made of 99.95% of tendrils, excluding his hearts - Physical techniques would simply pass right through him, the use of Doton: Domu would be unneeded. I've actually got more "extras", but I'm tired asf. Anywho enjoy the read. This is how the Akatsuki tier listings should be: 1. Obito 2. Nagato = Itachi 3. Itachi = Nagato 4. Kisame = Kakuzu 5. Kakuzu = Kisame 6. Sasori 7. Deidara 8. Konan 9. Zetsu 10. Hidan |
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Agreed. 
Ayyo how are yall getting those Goku/Vegeta awards? :|
