Yeah that was kind of hypocritical, & pretty dumb given the nature of forums. I should probably not have butted in myself so I apologize.
No problem bro. All good.
Thought it did. But if nothing more Naruto couldn't have had Raiton or Katon since his opposite had them so they needed to be eliminated. It just made sense to me when crafting the thread to include that tidbit
A different kind of equality. Let me give an idea about it. I've already put a lot of thought into this so your thread wasn't anything new but an image of my previous thoughts. If Naruto had Fuuton and Suiton and Sasuke had Katon and Raiton then it makes equality more pronounced (
Not the Naruto = Sasuke equality, but the congruence in jutsus equality). And honestly, Naruto having Suiton would not just pronounce equality but make much more sense. In that case, their battle would depend on how smartly each used what they had because that would be a perfect counter to each other jutsus while simultaneously being weak against the other. But instead, Kishi neglected the ninjutsu stuff only giving them both mere brute force and gigantic creatures for the battle. And spammed all of natures by granting RSM and Rinnegan which made all of this interesting stuff void. And you already know how that parallelism occurs.
Naruto and Sasuke's individual jutsu superiority and inferiority against one another:
Fire > WIND > Lightning (Naruto)
Wind > LIGHTNING > Water (Sasuke)
Lightning > WATER > Fire (Naruto)
Water > FIRE > Wind (Sasuke)
So the cycle becomes,
Fire >
Wind >
Lightning >
Water >
Fire, so they both have a nature which is weak against one of the other's chakra natures and simultaneously stronger than the other one. So they have a counter, strong jutsu and a weak jutsu against each other. That takes jutsu parallelism to a new level. Plus, Lightning and Water would also make a great coordination attack just like Fire and Wind.