everything is according to plot when naruto wins right? and tell me if naruto isnt smart how did he make rasenshuriken? if im not mistaken he added wind chakra to the rasengan and even minato couldnt do that. and he outsmarted neji in a fight u have to be smart to do that right? and he even was able to master sage mode when jiraya couldnt even do it naruto is smarter than u would like 2 think
I really don't want to sit here for 30 minutes writing a book but you're very tempting.
Kakazu
Deduced naruto's jutsu and realised he shouldn't get hit by it. "I better keep my distance". Then runs in for CQC to get tricked by a clone.
3rd Raikage
He used Sasuke level deduction. That sort of deduction of putting 2 and 2 together isn't common for naruto's character. He's usually spam clones and overwhelming power until he finds something to exploit; Not listening to someone, analysing his situation and making a logic deduction based on current variables.
Pain
Just that entire fight... In the first place, kishi made sure to put deva path out of commission until only 1 other path was left. If deva could've fought with other 5 paths, SM naruto would've gotten stomped.
Kishi then throws hinata into the fray to be a catalyst for 6 tail naruto. No one stopped hinata from running to death? Makes sense...
Naruto then escapes a jutsu that trapped the juubi
Seriously, I don't want to go through this, I don't want to write a book.
Neji
Naruto duh a hole in 5 seconds. He doesn't even have earth jutsu but did that with his fingers. Have you ever tried to dig a hole with your hands? Have you ever even seen any non earth user do something like that? Naruto even got hit by a 64 palm to shut off his chakra half way into the fight. That entire fight was plot.
Kiba
A fart - LoL
Kimimaru
When fighting naruto, he hit the normal naruto away lightly then proceded to stab all the clones - let naruto escape
Can go on and on and on... Naruto has been the underdog, that's fair. But, that meant that kishi had to pull things out of his ass often to get naruto to win a fight, instead of actually giving him an unability or a semi logical reason for winning the fight. Kishi has pitted naruto against genius after genius and let him win.