[Spoilers] Sasuke Has Lost Any Connection To Naruto's Chakra

[The Robot With Human Hair]

I can agree with this, though I'm still hoping that Kishimoto has something else up his sleeve.

I suppose we will see. I wrote up a

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earlier about how Hashirama's chakra may be incredibly important to Sasuke regaining access to Juugo's ability, which would be a pretty decent thought rather than Oro simply magik's himself over there and saves him.

In all honesty, I can't really fully predict what a new Doujutsu can be capable of seeing that Kishimoto can come up with anything really, but S/T Ninjutsu should be fairly effective against Madara. I remember a while back that some predicted that Sasuke would gain the ability to temporarily slow/hasten time. Even against Madara that would prove to be fairly effective. If Sasuke is to gain a new Doujutsu, it would make sense that he would gain an ability more haxed than Amaterasu, but more importantly Kamui.

I've read some of those theories and many are quite intriguing. Specifically the time manipulation theory, which would cancel out basically any use Naruto's speed would have in their eventual fight. Although, it may be a bit too haxed.

On the topic of Senjutsu in general, BlinkST has a pretty interesting idea

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. It's possible that Preta Path won't be effective against a "living" Susanoo.

Another intriguing thought. Though, wouldn't Sasuke need to learn Sage Mode himself to obtain that power? Or could Juugo's Sage Transformation ability work, despite it being impermanent?

I would agree with this, but only if we were dealing with the Sasuke of old. I think that Orochimaru's statements about Sasuke not being the child that him, Itachi and Tobi could easily manipulate is highly important in not just a character development perspective, but also a power perspective.

The Sasuke of old could be easily manipulated in terms of character and belief; this was reciprocated in his ability set if you really think about it. I think Sasuke having similar abilities as the authority figures in his life was another way for Kishimoto to stress this. In contrast, the Sasuke of new is vastly different. In a sense, he's "become his own man". I believe that this will be highlighted by his new power-up.

This is why I think his new power-up will be something that is unique to him, and purely Uchiha.

A good counter point, I don't disagree, but gaining the Rin'negan without following Orochimaru's experiments in a contrived method, could still work. Either way still works for me, with Rin'negan or without, Kishi simply has to put it on paper.

 

[adeshina365]

Another intriguing thought. Though, wouldn't Sasuke need to learn Sage Mode himself to obtain that power? Or could Juugo's Sage Transformation ability work, despite it being impermanent?

Based off of Kabuto's statements, a controlled version of Juugo's Sennin Transformation is what can be referred to as "DSM":

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[The Robot With Human Hair]

Based off of Kabuto's statements, a controlled version of Juugo's Sennin Transformation is what can be referred to as "DSM":

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Makes sense. Would love to see this, honestly. Sasuke using a winged version of DSM would be pretty awesome to see. He is both a snake and a hawk.

 

[adeshina365]

Makes sense. Would love to see this, honestly. Sasuke using a winged version of DSM would be pretty awesome to see. He is both a snake and a hawk.

It may have been foreshadowed here:

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