Skill is barely relevant here.
It is incredibly relevant.
If it was, then Madara would have spanked Naruto and Sasuke due to superior skill.
Nah. You underestimate Naruto and Sasuke's skill. Just recall that even a Kage praised them [
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] They've been top level shinobi since their initial battle at VoTE. Even if Madara is more skilled than them, it isn't by much. And that being said, they also had the power advantage.
Overwhelming power beats skill anyday, as long as you know how to use said powers, Kaguya does, so there's no issue.
You know '
knowing how to use said power' is part of skill, right? Kaguya was bad with her power. She wasted most of her strength randomly teleporting (often picking stupid locations). She fell for Naruto's harem. never even used her TSB (instead she just made it unnecessarily large, and wasted precious time that she couldn't afford).
Honestly, she wasn't skilled. She grew up a princess, not a fighter. Naruto and Sasuke grew up as shinobi, in a shinobi world. They simply had the training from the ground up. She was just a (possibly special) woman that came into great power. She didn't know what she was doing with it. But these two do.
He was going all out, with Susanoo, which hasn't changed. The only thing that changed with Sasuke, is that he mastered his Rinnegan, which he didn't use until this chapter. Why would he not go all out against Kaguya anyway?
He wasn't. He mastered Rinnegan right after the fight, but didn't use any of its powers at all during the fight. He didn't even use majority of his known powers. He just searched for an opponent with his RinneShift, and threw in some Susano'O for good measures.
1. The chakra arm hurt her cause she was blitzed by it, thus couldn't react, thus no absorption.
Exactly.
2. Kamui Raikiri was merged with Kamui's powers, maybe why she couldn't absorb it.
Sure, we can go with that.
Actually, I don't really get her absorption. She dodged Enton Spikes but she absorbed the same flame a few pages earlier. Its odd. I'll just say that she can't absorb his attacks, though that Bijuu RS didn't even harm her, leading me to believe she absorbed it somehow, which could be the reason why her chakra went haywire, but if she didn't absorb it, that means she tanked it, which makes no sense since Naruto sliced off her arm.
Well Enton does impact damage, which Amaterasu doesn't - so that's something to keep in mind. She also didn't absorb Amaterasu at the instant of impact.
She was sent flying from the RS spam, so I would figure it did hurt her. But like against Edo Raikage, I guess it only did superficial wounds. I don't think she absorbed it, since they exploded, and since she reacted to them. I think these things just got caught together and created more of an explosive damage than anything.
Kakashi damaged her, yes, but Naruto blitzed a weakened Kaguya. She was noted to be much faster after absorbing chakra.
I speculate that she allocated most of her power to the TSB she created. But even if she didn't, she really wasn't doing much at all, even with her supposedly great speed boost.
But you know what I thought was funny? Naruto extended a chakra arm against Muu-sama when he wasn't fast enough. Yet he never did that to Kaguya when she was just a short length away.
Anyway, in all honestly, I think she was just surprised by Kakashi. Kamui caught her off-guard.
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Rikudo admitted inferiority.
I covered this in one of my earlier replies.
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He said she was more powerful than anyone. That being said, she also had ALL chakra at the point he was referring to. That being said, she has been defeated twice - the first time by non-JJ Hagoromo (and his brother), and the second time by non-serious NaruSasu (as well as Sakura and Kakashi)."
Just looking at this from a logical standpoint as well, I still think Prime JJ Hagoromo was stronger (or at least close to her strength, but with vastly more skill and techniques).