Sasuke's Rinnegan Misunderstood or Overrated

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This is my first post here so excuse me for choosing what may or may not be an unpopular opinion to post about.

Based on current showings it would appear Sasuke's rinnegan allows him to teleport himself and others and possibly tele-swap himself with objects. His ability has a limited range, and possibly limited uses depending on the validity of the theory that his tomo visibly disappearing during the course of that fight was the result of his usage of the technique and not simply an art error.

Based on this I can only conclude the following possibilities:

- He's not simply teleporting, he's using a more complex ability that simply allows him the option of teleporting or doing something that looks like teleporting (possibly something like izanagi though I somewhat speculate that it could be something involving the yin nature of his So6P power, possibly making himself and other object exist in a different location than they originally were entirely)
- His teleportation has greater implications than what we've seen (as of yet, kamui is a far more versatile and useful s/t jutsu)
- The teleportation is only one of several doujutsu-based abilities his Rinnegan has granted him that we have yet to see (emphasis on doujutsu-based, the teleporting is the only thing we've seen that is directly linked to his new eye, please do not mention his other powers he's shown so far as being the result of the eye)
- Kishi has seriously failed to deliver an original technique for that eye, honestly we just had an entire battle sequence and several key points during the clash with Madara that relied on teleportation jutsu and honestly FTG is far from being inferior to that technique as it stands (they both have ways in which they are superior to the other). This is the pinnacle of doujutsu we're talking about, the technique it grants should not be at all comparable to anything pre-existing, and that's setting aside the fact that adding another straight teleportation-themed jutsu is just kind of boring.

I'm personally leaning toward the first or second possibility. The only thing he's shown so far is being able to see through IT and the teleporting, and if it's straight teleporting and nothing else, that's a very random, slap-dash, and frankly lazy ability to just throw in there as part of the powerset of the pinnacle of doujutsu. So it's either part of a set of abilities or far more likely it and the ability to see through IT are both encompassed within a single power he now possesses based on Yin-release. I say that because it's already been theorized by Sasuke himself that Yin is the reason for him not being affected by IT and his Susanoo being able to shield the others from it, and as I said above, it would make alot more sense for the teleportation to be only one of many potential applications of Sasuke's Yin-based abilities.

Sidenote: is anyone else wondering why sasuke hasn't used any of the basic rinnegan abilities yet, or wondering if he is even able to use said abilities (inb4 he doesn't need to use them in this fight... they have their usefulness even against someone of Madara's caliber).
 

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Welcome to the base.

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Welcome to the base! Good points made here.
 

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I thought this was obvious but just in case. Just another note... the reason I don't count winged susanoo as a doujutsu ability in this context is because it's alot more likely that that thing is the result of the So6P infusion expanding the power of his pre-existing EMS as opposed to being the result of the new eye.
 

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Uhhhhh... sounds good man.
 

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His teleportation is better imo cause he doesn't need to place seals everywhere ... In close combat sasuke is deadly he had madara running tryna get out of Sasukes range cause madara knows it's probably deadly also... I'm happy with his power ups so far and I think he needs another eye for his Rinnegan to be full power and use other Rinnegan techniques..
 

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His teleportation is better imo cause he doesn't need to place seals everywhere ... In close combat sasuke is deadly he had madara running tryna get out of Sasukes range cause madara knows it's probably deadly also... I'm happy with his power ups so far and I think he needs another eye for his Rinnegan to be full power and use other Rinnegan techniques..

I respectfully disagree with both points. The seals have an indeterminably long range, allow the user to permenantly teleport to an enemies location (even if they don't explicitly know where that enemy actually is), the list goes on.. To the second point, if he needs both eyes to use base rinnegan abilities that would make it inferior to the regular rinnegan, both madara and obito were wrecking the place with a single rinnegan and had access to its abilities.
 

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You are right-except for the last point. There's no point in sasuke using the basic rinnegan abilities.
 

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I respectfully disagree with both points. The seals have an indeterminably long range, allow the user to permenantly teleport to an enemies location (even if they don't explicitly know where that enemy actually is), the list goes on.. To the second point, if he needs both eyes to use base rinnegan abilities that would make it inferior to the regular rinnegan, both madara and obito were wrecking the place with a single rinnegan and had access to its abilities.

I disagree with that cause ftg can be predictable cause all you have to do is memorize the kunai seals in the area and predict where the user will teleport to cause that's what raikage did when he fought minato... Sasuke teleportation is less predictable .. But I never seen obito or one eye madara use all the Justus that pain was using like almighty push ... And obito said when the original owner has both eyes they can use the Rinnegan at full power... You notice madara used planetary devastation when he got both eyes? And obito never used that technique ... So I believe if sasuke gets both Rinnegan eyes his teleportation range may increase and he might have new Rinnegan abilities never seen before cause I highly doubt he only has 1 technique but we will find out soon hopefully
 

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His teleportation is better imo cause he doesn't need to place seals everywhere ... In close combat sasuke is deadly he had madara running tryna get out of Sasukes range cause madara knows it's probably deadly also... I'm happy with his power ups so far and I think he needs another eye for his Rinnegan to be full power and use other Rinnegan techniques..

Then why did Sasuke ask Tobirama to teleport him to Madara?

He's not using a s/t technique...

It's most likely inzanagi.
 

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I disagree with that cause ftg can be predictable cause all you have to do is memorize the kunai seals in the area and predict where the user will teleport to cause that's what raikage did when he fought minato... Sasuke teleportation is less predictable .. But I never seen obito or one eye madara use all the Justus that pain was using like almighty push ... And obito said when the original owner has both eyes they can use the Rinnegan at full power... You notice madara used planetary devastation when he got both eyes? And obito never used that technique ... So I believe if sasuke gets both Rinnegan eyes his teleportation range may increase and he might have new Rinnegan abilities never seen before cause I highly doubt he only has 1 technique but we will find out soon hopefully

If you'll recall, Raikage failed to predict where Minato was going to teleport to, and it is far from predictable when the user can place additional seals any time he chooses quite discretely. Obito was about to use the human path on one of Danzo's body guards earlier in the series, and he was using the six paths technique with the edo-jins, and madara being the original owner of the eye should be able to do at least what obito can do with a single eye, granted that didn't display all of the rinnegan abilities it displayed some of them, as opposed to none at all as it stands with Sasuke. True it was stated that both eyes unlock the full power, that could easily be referring to the magnitude of the power of the techniques, not the techniques themselves. In Sasuke's case, it is very doubtful he will get a second eye, I think whatever power he has now is all he will have, and if he has anything else it's a matter of him not showing it yet, as opposed to not having access to it.
 
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