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As the title says, many people think that Nagato was the best user of the rinnegan. Now I can see why someone would think that and it actually makes sense. After all, Nagato trained with the rinnegan his whole life and was shown to use it way more often than Madara, Sasuke or Obito. However, I propose to you that using it more often or using a greater quantity of techniques does not necessarily make Nagato superior to the other rinnegan users.
In fact, I propose to you that by feats Nagato was probably one of the least effective rinnegan users. Here is why:
Let's look at some feats:
Madara: With the power of only one of his rinnegan eyes, Madara easily soloed all 9 bijuus along with BSM Naruto, EMS Sasuke, BM Bee, and Tobirama. As an edo with both eyes he beat edo Hashirama, the 5 kages and he devastated the 4th division of the allied shinobi forces using the power of two enormously devastating meteors. Later as Rikudou Madara, he rained chibaku tensei meteors on the alliance.
Now let's move on to Sasuke
Sasuke: With Sasuke's rinnegan eye, he controlled and sealed away all 9 bijuus in mere seconds (even faster than Madara). He was also able to give Rikudou Madara a hard time for awhile and he fought on par with RSM Naruto. He was even able to survive the battle with Kaguya Otsutsuki and fight on par with Kinshiki.
Now while you should take all of those things into consideration, there are 2 specific similarities between Madara's and Sasuke's list of rinnegan feats that I would like to point out. Those similarities are:
1. Their treatment of the bijuus
2. Chibaku tensei
Why do those two things specifically matter you ask? Well, let's look at Nagato's performance with regards to these two things:
During Naruto's battle with Pain, Pain could barely deal with a 6 tailed form of Naruto. His signature shinra tensei was ineffective and his chibaku tensei couldn't even fully contain 8 tailed Naruto (and Nagato put all of his might into that one to the point that he actually bled from the nose). Note that these were 6 and 8 tailed partial transformations that Nagato was largely ineffective against.
Meanwhile, Madara and Sasuke were able to easily deal with all 9 full bijuus (technically 8.5 bijuus due to Kurama being split, but close enough) within seconds (minutes in Madara's case).
You may argue that healthy edo Nagato was better representative of Nagato's power with the rinnegan, but even then Nagato's chibaku tensei still showcased the weakness of being able to be destroyed if an opponent attacks the core with powerful long range techniques. This is a weakness that Madara's and Sasuke's chibaku tenseis didn't have. Furthermore, nothing insinuated that edo Nagato's chibaku tensei could deal with an 8 tailed Naruto any better than it did in the battle between Naruto and Pain.
Madara's chibaku tensei brought devastation to the battle field and his limbo soloed the two shinobi who beat a 10 tails jinchuuriki with ease. Sasuke's chibaku tensei captured all 9 bijuus like they were pokemon and Sasuke was Ash Ketchum.
The prowess and efficency that Madara and Sasuke showed with the rinnegan (being able to dominate within minutes or seconds with only one or two moves) is effectiveness and power that Nagato failed to show. It is clear that Madara and Sasuke are more effective rinnegan users than Nagato despite Nagato using it more.
It could be argued that even Obito was somewhat more effective with it. Let's look at the following jutsu:
Six Paths of Pain
Nagato used corpses that presumably had no special abilities in life for his six paths of pain, and the corpses weren't very durable. In general it only took one good rasengan from SM Naruto to destroy his pains.
Meanwhile, Obito did something smart and effective by using jinchuuriki and resealing their bijuus into them and by actually letting them use powers that they had in life. These pains gave KCM Naruto and Bee such a hard time. Obito also actually used the mazou in battle (something that Nagato could have done but chose not to besides once long ago). Obito was clearly more effective in a sense.
Momoshiki is more obvious. He actually successfully kidnapped and almost killed RSM hokage Naruto. He burned rinnegan Sasuke's face and was deemed a threat greater than Kaguya.
In summary, it is true that Nagato used the rinnegan more than everyone else. However, the actions showcased by the likes of Madara, Obito, Sasuke and Momoshiki greatly outclass those of Nagato. The opponents that the afforementioned people have soloed along with the ease with which they soloed these people show far more effective usage of the rinnegan than Nagato's struggling against everyone.
Thank you for reading. This is not a bash thread, so please no rudeness.
In fact, I propose to you that by feats Nagato was probably one of the least effective rinnegan users. Here is why:
Let's look at some feats:
Madara: With the power of only one of his rinnegan eyes, Madara easily soloed all 9 bijuus along with BSM Naruto, EMS Sasuke, BM Bee, and Tobirama. As an edo with both eyes he beat edo Hashirama, the 5 kages and he devastated the 4th division of the allied shinobi forces using the power of two enormously devastating meteors. Later as Rikudou Madara, he rained chibaku tensei meteors on the alliance.
Now let's move on to Sasuke
Sasuke: With Sasuke's rinnegan eye, he controlled and sealed away all 9 bijuus in mere seconds (even faster than Madara). He was also able to give Rikudou Madara a hard time for awhile and he fought on par with RSM Naruto. He was even able to survive the battle with Kaguya Otsutsuki and fight on par with Kinshiki.
Now while you should take all of those things into consideration, there are 2 specific similarities between Madara's and Sasuke's list of rinnegan feats that I would like to point out. Those similarities are:
1. Their treatment of the bijuus
2. Chibaku tensei
Why do those two things specifically matter you ask? Well, let's look at Nagato's performance with regards to these two things:
During Naruto's battle with Pain, Pain could barely deal with a 6 tailed form of Naruto. His signature shinra tensei was ineffective and his chibaku tensei couldn't even fully contain 8 tailed Naruto (and Nagato put all of his might into that one to the point that he actually bled from the nose). Note that these were 6 and 8 tailed partial transformations that Nagato was largely ineffective against.
Meanwhile, Madara and Sasuke were able to easily deal with all 9 full bijuus (technically 8.5 bijuus due to Kurama being split, but close enough) within seconds (minutes in Madara's case).
You may argue that healthy edo Nagato was better representative of Nagato's power with the rinnegan, but even then Nagato's chibaku tensei still showcased the weakness of being able to be destroyed if an opponent attacks the core with powerful long range techniques. This is a weakness that Madara's and Sasuke's chibaku tenseis didn't have. Furthermore, nothing insinuated that edo Nagato's chibaku tensei could deal with an 8 tailed Naruto any better than it did in the battle between Naruto and Pain.
Madara's chibaku tensei brought devastation to the battle field and his limbo soloed the two shinobi who beat a 10 tails jinchuuriki with ease. Sasuke's chibaku tensei captured all 9 bijuus like they were pokemon and Sasuke was Ash Ketchum.
The prowess and efficency that Madara and Sasuke showed with the rinnegan (being able to dominate within minutes or seconds with only one or two moves) is effectiveness and power that Nagato failed to show. It is clear that Madara and Sasuke are more effective rinnegan users than Nagato despite Nagato using it more.
It could be argued that even Obito was somewhat more effective with it. Let's look at the following jutsu:
Six Paths of Pain
Nagato used corpses that presumably had no special abilities in life for his six paths of pain, and the corpses weren't very durable. In general it only took one good rasengan from SM Naruto to destroy his pains.
Meanwhile, Obito did something smart and effective by using jinchuuriki and resealing their bijuus into them and by actually letting them use powers that they had in life. These pains gave KCM Naruto and Bee such a hard time. Obito also actually used the mazou in battle (something that Nagato could have done but chose not to besides once long ago). Obito was clearly more effective in a sense.
Momoshiki is more obvious. He actually successfully kidnapped and almost killed RSM hokage Naruto. He burned rinnegan Sasuke's face and was deemed a threat greater than Kaguya.
In summary, it is true that Nagato used the rinnegan more than everyone else. However, the actions showcased by the likes of Madara, Obito, Sasuke and Momoshiki greatly outclass those of Nagato. The opponents that the afforementioned people have soloed along with the ease with which they soloed these people show far more effective usage of the rinnegan than Nagato's struggling against everyone.
Thank you for reading. This is not a bash thread, so please no rudeness.
