Plot no Jutsu saving characters..

[NarutoBestFanboy]

Sasuke should have been able to beat Naruto based on the information we have. That fight was Bs

Sasuke skills:
Genjutsu (doesn't work on Naruto)
Amaterasu (block by chakra cloak)
Sasuno (very useful)
Rinnegan special (teleportation)
Rinnegan techs (energy absorbtion and probably all of what nagato had)
Chidori
Shadow clone
fireballs

Why couldn't Sasuke just absorb Naruto's Jutsus like Nagato did? Plot shield. Kurama even said Sasuke is a rinnegan noob. So maybe Sasuke probably could beat Naruto with more experience with it.

 

[Grammar Nazi]

Sasuke isn't experienced enough with the rinnegan yet.

 

[Ricardo]

He doesn't know how to control the rinnegan correctly yet. he hasn't learned all of its abilities.

 

[Jiraiyathesannin]

Dude, you pretty much explained why naruto was a counter to sasuke. All of these things were built since part 2 started

So is it plot that madara would beat konohamaru? "no fair, amaterasu is absorbed by rinnegan. If konohamaru could practice for 15 more years, he'd be op".

There IS a thing called plot... i.e when someone loses because the plot demands it even if it makes no sense (i.e jiraiya taking like 5 minutes to summon 2 small toads even though that summoning time wasn't established prior OR after that fight, just because he needed to die)

However none of these were asspulls. They were all in line with the manga