It also can bend and avoid Asuma's slash. Then it stabs him from behind.
Wut? When has it ever been controlled? It's not sand that can be controlled at will. It's a spine that he uses for a weapon. Ok, if he does that Asuma has a huge opening and decapitates Kimi.
Ash cloud is trash. Barely anything happened to Asuma when he got hit with his own attack, or Hidan did and the exact damage transfered over. If Kimimaro can withstand pressure 200 m underground I doubt a couple of hot grits can even cause him to bat an eye.
Yeah, it can just completely block Kimimaro's vision so he can't see anything or anything. Since when was surviving pressure equal to surviving an explosion in his face?
The way his other katons would have killed Chouji and instantly killed Chouji's mask by just moving to collide with it tells me that you need to stop downplaying Asuma, and he just has good durability.
As for bullets you have no counter to them I noticed. I guess bullets are pretty universally dangerous.
Nah, they can't be deflected by Asuma or anything. What's Kimimaro's counter to Asuma throwing his knives at long range? There isn't one? Alright, thanks.
A tree is a bit different than Kimimaro's harder than steel bones that can damage chakra blades. Those were the samurais' but I'm guessing Asuma's are 'sharper'. Sharp enough to slash Kimi's bones? Maybe, but I doubt he even gets one graze in. Kimimaro's just better at taijutsu.
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And let's ignore Asuma soloing 10 chunin levels
...and Asuma fighting on par with Hidan
....and Asuma's fuuton effortlessly decapitating him and having superiority to his bones
etcetcetcetc
All of this doesn't even include bracken dance. Asuma is utterly killed with this. And he has no sensing so even if he miraculously survives he has no way of knowing where Kimimaro is until he's stabbed in the back.
Implying Kimimaro will ever last that long to even think about using it.