Mei has no speed feats and no defensive abilities shown, only offensive. Even if she could somehow keep boil release mist around her, that still wouldnt stop Tsunade during Byakugo.
How can she avoid getting 1hit KO by Tsunade during Byakugo? Tsunade can probably even do it without. Raikage could stomp her low diff too.
Its sad to see how Kishi seems to have forgotten (hopefully not on purpose) Terumi Mei.
She has not even been given any defensive moves (none shown at least) and no speed feats.
It would have been cool if Kishi made her more agile, like sneaking in mist, having descent speed like Zabuza and some silent killing moves or if that wouldnt be her style than some other unique form of fighting. Like covering herself in some water or lava armor or being able to use Houzuki jutsus for example.
Your right...she has no speed feats but she actually has shown defensive abilities and great reaction speed.
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If she can keep boil release up, its actually kinda dangerous, even if Tsunade has her byakugo activated - it would just eat up her chakra even more as it would cause a continuous burn. She could keep Tsunade away using the pillar + dragon combo. And its obvious the raikage would defeat her easily but this isnt about him.
I agree with you in that Kishi could have made her more unique but I think she's great as she is. She very versatile - she can use 5 elements. Too bad we just saw her use the same jutsu over and over again.
Btw I think she might have shown a speed feat...
If you look at this first scan...all the kage are together and it looks like they're all pretty far away from Madara.
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And then...Tsunade ends up attacking Madara. In the next scan, it looks like Madara was pushed back or jumps back a considerable distance and proceeds to attack Tsunade.
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In the below scan, Mei is actually behind Madara/to his side when she uses her water dragon jutsu. So it looks like she crossed a considerable distance (madara was already far away from the kage to begin with but ends up moving further back when attacking Tsunade) in a very short time. The whole thing happened pretty quickly. But I dont know if this would be considered a speed feat.
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