How smart is Obito Uchiha?

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We know that he wasn't all that intelligent in the beginning of his life, but at age 14 he showed a talent for oratory, contingency planning, back-up planning, charisma, and manipulation.

I feel like he's the most underrated character when dealing with intelligence. Not even Madara showed this much intelligence when it came to planning and I doubt he was dull or stupid.

Anyone with an opposing opinion feel free to share, and maybe state who you think is the smartest character of all in the series. Maybe you could give a top ten?
 

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Smart enough to have convinced the world even Itachi Uchiha that he was Madara Uchiha.
 

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I don't really think he was underrated. Obitos intelligence was never said to be lacking. He just wasn't on Kakashi's level as a kid or as an adult. But Kakashi is like top 3 in intelligence so it's not bad to be a little behind him. And yeah he was smart enough to convince Itachi too. So there ya go.
 

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He's not a genius if that's what you're asking. Based on Madara's tone he was a lot less smarter than Sasuke when it concerns battle tactics
 

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He's not a genius if that's what you're asking. Based on Madara's tone he was a lot less smarter than Sasuke when it concerns battle tactics

I believe Madara was comparing the fact that Sasuke had a Rinnegan and the Eternal Mangekyo in comparison to Obito.
 

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He's not a genius if that's what you're asking. Based on Madara's tone he was a lot less smarter than Sasuke when it concerns battle tactics

I don't remember Madara indicating such about Obito
 

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Seeing as though Madara wasn't even there to see Obito at work, I don't see how he could compare the two.
 

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If you don't follow the filler, he was never dumb to begin with. He was just not as talented as kakashi who was able to become a jonin at the age of like 10 years old.
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Sasuke recognize Uchihas as being the smartest and even Madara knows that Obito is intelligent. His problem was that at the time his skills weren't good enough like Kakashi and his taijutsu use to suck as a kid. So when his sharingan appeared, his skills refined a lot better. I'm yet to see an Uchiha that's an actual idiot, Pierrot Studio made that whole crap up of Obito being an actual idiot.
He's just an extremely emotional *****.
 

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He manipulated Sasuke's life and thinking . He's manipulative
 

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Compared to narutos generation as kids Obito was pretty good. He could use elemental jutsu at a young age. A feat that Kakashi was surprised at, when Sasuke performed it at the same age.
 

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He was smart, dissimulate, manipulative. He is tobi after all.

As for his childhood, i think it has more to do with his lack of self stem than his inteligence or powers.
 

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Smart enough to have convinced the world even Itachi Uchiha that he was Madara Uchiha.

Not exactly, itachi gave sasuke a choice to believe. Itachi only say it because obito said so. I'm sure iachi knew he wasn't madara.
 

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He was like shikamaru. Long term planner. Not really battle smart. In the long run he has created some magnificent plans.
 

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he is smart , but not that smart , just bring Rin to life with Edo tensei or rinne-rebirth and BOOM , the fight is over
 

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"because you killed rin"
 

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Not smart at all. He's just 'lucky' Madara mentored him.
 
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