Never say never. She fought with Sasori along with Chhiyo and Tsunade's style is an exmaple of how she is progressing since then.
Saying that offense is not her main skill but defense and providing back up as medical Nin. In the last chapter she did leap away from kaguya's reach before Kakashi's susano coming to rescue and picking her up. So her reaction time was not that bad. That was how she was being trained by Tsunade back then and something she used in her fight with Sasori.
Naruto used one of the clones of his to push Sasuke and himself away from another one.
Sakura's main problem is that she is the only person in the team 7 who didn't get any power or ability boost from an older brother, father or friend. She doesn't have an inherited clan tech either. To top it she is not a combat type.
And I will repost a comment I saw in another writer's forum.
How you guys can cry about hard work being ignored while you bash the nin in the team 7 who has nothing but her hard work to rely on.
But you have to remember, Tsunade was the better combatant out of jiraiya and orochimaru, despite being the "support" role.
So Sakura should be a good combatant. Thats what i always said about Tsunade, when people say "shes a supporter".. no she is first a fighter, then a supporter character. However, its just that we see her in supporting roles more because she "HAS" to be in them.
And i never complained about her not getting powerups/ or not being born from a family. nor about sasuke and naruto getting their power givens to them "free". Doesn't matter to me. I simply feel, Sakura got trolled hard by the writer of the manga. And now he is literally insulting the character (though many other fans and the writer probably don't view it that way), but how many times do we want sakura being saved? its cliche and repetitive x-x But these are the problems i have with Kishimoto not sakura.
But i still honestly think if she had a proper chance to shocase her abilities she'd be on the level of Minat/itachi/kisame/pain easily. << Now watch people troll on that statement of mine.
You must be irritated by the fans and "trolls" arguments. What does it have to do with this? I cannot find the point of your thread.
You go on and say she has not gone on the offensive, but contradict yourself and say she has. However, she has not shown much which does not mean anything as the fact remains she as fought. What concerns me was your statement on her inability of competing against other characters. Something you argued about as she had a lack of skill that cannot compete with the rest. That was what you wanted to prove, however, actuality it is nothing to prove because it was already known by readers. Simply put, she has nothing else to offer as far as abilities goes.
The point of the thread is in the title of the thread, and later on inside the thread by itself.
No that was not a contradiction in the statements. The context of "offense" in those was different.
1. You do not know her abilities, so why act liek you know them? No one knows the full extent of her abilities. Do you know how she'll deal with a genjutsu user? do you know how she'll fight a SM Naruto for example? no. You do not know the extent of her abilities.
2. Sorry, but my point was to say she doesn't have the skill to compete against the rest? what? rofl. The whole point of the thread was that the main problem with sakura and her abilities is that she hasn't gotten the chance to fight...
Now please do tell me the main point of your own post. What are you trying to tell me?
Also you said i must be irritated and that the thread has nothing to do with that.. but how do you know?
- "sakura is slow".. if she showed speed in combat against a top teir character, this won't be an issue
- "sakura has no fighting style" .. if she actually got the chance to fight someone of her level in a 1 vs 1 , we would knwo her fighting style.
I specifically mentioned the issues the thread was addressing.