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Average strength kick would knock anyone -who is crouching- off their feet. Definitely not as far as Kakashi goes there but they will be knocked off their feet.
Which doesn't change the fact that strength was used to what he did.
The point i'm trying to get at is striking speed matters in a taijutsu fight. Kakashi has fast reactions and the only reason he doesn't react to the incoming kick was the speed of said kick despite Kakashi having faster reactions + 3T precog. Ducking is not excuse for not being able to get out of the way of said kick because he has the speed and reactions + precog to be able to get out fast enough. (You must be registered for see links)
Which is a point I never denied, doesn't mean that the person who strikes the fastest automatically wins. And the rest of this part of your post doesn't make sense. You say ducking isn't an excuse for him being unable to dodge because he has the speed to dodge even though him having the speed to dodge a head on kick from Zabuza doesn't mean that he'll dodge an immediate follow up kick from Zabuza after Zabuza had already swung his blade at him which leaves Kakashi vulnerable and Zabuza in an advantageous position.
Saying "it's not an excuse because he's fast enough" isn't even an argument. Especially when Zabuza and Kakashi are already near each other in speed w/o Sharingan.
Naruto at this point is obviously a billion times slower than Zabuza yes but I'm only trying to show that Kakashi could have reacted despite ducking initially if that kick didn't come faster than he could react.
Movement speed =/= striking speed.
Your point doesn't work because Naruto is nowhere near Zabuza or Kakashi's level of speed. Speed is the most important part of this scenario so I'm not sure why you think providing an example where Kakashi is far faster than his opposition proves your point here.
In terms of the fight we have on our hands Sasuke dodging a linear punch from Naruto aided by his movement speed coming from a distance doesn't prove for a fact that Sasuke can dodge all of Neji's strikes in an all in your face cqc simply because he has precog. Neji has insane striking speeds and Sasuke reacting to that Naruto's movement speed is negated here as this is an all in your face fight not requiring distance movement speed reaction feats.
All of Neji's strikes? Who said he'll dodge all of Neji's strikes? I said he'll dodge Neji's initial 64 palms strikes and then counter attack, or he'll parry Neji's regular strikes and kicks used against Naruto and Hinata in regular CQC and then counter attack. Sasuke can't dodge all of Neji's attacks.
Consider Neji isn't the aggressor type.. and consider a scenario where Sasuke comes in with a punch that Neji dodges or parries slightly leaving Sasuke unbalanced.... is there proof Sasuke has the insane reactions to avoid all the simultaneous fast punches Neji can deal in that instant?
Read below, further on in this post. Not sure what kind of fights you've watched to think that every single missed attack results in someone being thrown off balance.
Simultaneous punches in an instant? Lol not like Neji can even do that to begin with.
@bold Correct me if i'm wrong..but your 'why' is because of strength right? Wouldn't this mean no one would be able to beat those Raikage's because i'm pretty sure strengthened punches won't be putting them down in a taijutsu only match-up.
You're also leaving out the byakugan entirely as if it had no hand in Neji defeating Lee yet keep bringing up how Sharingan would increase taijutsu stats.
What instances?
No, it's because of all physical abilities combined. That's why skill isn't the most important factor in all close quarter fights. That's the point I'm trying to make.
The instances where Neji allegedly neg diffed 1st Gate and Weightless Lee with nothing but hand to hand and where said Lee was unable to tag Neji.
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Simple gentle fist pokes would cause pain but that pain would be tanked and he would still be able to pummel Neji neg diff.
You haven't proven what you need to prove. You simply restated what you already stated in the last post but with a scan saying that the Gates are crippling even though we know that the Gates are crippling. You are supposed to be proving that the Gates and Gentle Fist deal damage similar to each other in magnitude.
The hyuga can put anyone down with a critical hit in a vital place. Neji and Lee would just be sparring and there would be no need for him to go to such extreme measures just like in his fight with Hinata. You're implying Neji would have had to touch Lee just once with gentle fist to cripple him entirely but we see in gates Lee already fights through the pain. Not to mention Lee is fast and proficient enough in taijutsu himself and won't allow for Neji to just calmly aim at a vital organ with his gentle fist.
If they are sparring Neji doesn't need to go that far because Lee isn't going that far and using the 5th Gate to fight him, so I have no idea why you continue to mention sparring as if it's proof of anything you are saying. Especially when you've yet to prove that the damage the gates causes to his body and the damage Gentle Fist would cause to his body are alike enough to make your comparison valid.
If your comparison was even valid in the first place Gai wouldn't have stated outright that the goal of the Ura Renge is to pummel Neji into the ground before he can touch Lee, hence him saying it's a high speed Taijutsu combo that can't be touched. What you are doing at this point is simply arguing against what Gai already stated using hypotheticals. Lee's issue was not being touched by Neji, and that's clearly because of the Gentle Fist unless Neji has some other near deadly technique that'd result in Lee needing to avoid being touched to have a clear shot at victory.
Then how does Sasuke win? Because from all i'm reading from your posts i'm getting the impression you're implying Sasuke wins because he's stronger.
-Sasuke has superior reaction speed, physical strength and he's more durable than Neji at VoTe.
-Sasuke hits harder than Neji does as he was able to floor KN0 with a punch and a kick.
-Neji doesn't hit as hard so he'll have to hit Sasuke more if he wants to win.
If Neji attacks Sasuke with his normal Taijutsu style that he used against Naruto and Hinata, Sasuke parries his attacks and then beats him down. Superior striking strength means little when your opponent can block your attacks. If Neji attacks with 64 palms like it's been suggested elsewhere in this thread, Sasuke either dodges them entirely by simply keeping his distance from Neji, or when Neji lunges forward for the initial two strikes Sasuke dodges forward to the side and then attacks Neji while he's in the middle of his attack.
If Neji waits for Sasuke to come at him first, Sasuke attacks and:
-If Neji dodges said attack Sasuke simply attacks him again until he lands.
-If Neji blocks said attack then it becomes a brawl, which Neji loses unless he breaks free.
-If Neji dodges said attack and then tries to counter attack Sasuke blocks and then it either becomes a brawl or they break from each other and restart the process.
And if at any point Neji tries to use 64 palms, Sasuke creates distance. Even if he takes a few hits in the process, Neji won't be putting him down with only a few strikes as Gentle Fist is restricted. And keep in mind Sasuke can move as fast as Weightless Lee when he wants to, so for a short while Neji has to fight someone as fast as Weightless Lee (far faster than him) but with FAR better reaction speed than said Lee and better reaction speed than him. That almost puts Sasuke above Neji's level completely in hand to hand as skill goes out the window when Sasuke is copying the exact movements of someone who is almost as skilled as he is in Taijutsu.
"Neji dodges Sasuke's attacks neg diff and then obliterates him" is a ridiculous argument that's literally only based one feat Neji has, and that's him evading daggers with no speed feats that mean that he dodges all of Sasuke's attacks neg diff when Sasuke can easily tag someone faster than Neji himself.
It does sorta..You keep mentioning physical abilities and we know the only physical ability Sasuke trumps Neji in is strength. That's why i suggested you stop using physical abilities and straight up use strength instead.
-Reaction speed.
-Strength.
-Durability.
Those are physical abilities that Sasuke trumps Neji in. The only thing Neji is superior in is movement speed without Shunshin as per his DB score and when we take into account the fact that Sasuke can move as fast as Weightless Lee he becomes far superior in movement speed as well.
This seems very wrong. Dodging and countering a linear punch coming from a distance is not the same as attacking then dodging and then countering in cqc. The latter requires extremely fast body speed. Despite the precog of 3T, Sasuke somehow still got cut from a linear punch (You must be registered for see links). Isn't that implying if Naruto could strike faster he would have beat Sasuke there?
All I said there is that the Sharingan will predict it. Who said that Sasuke will react and THEN dodge or counter attack? Who used that instance as absolute evidence that Sasuke would dodge Neji's strike after he himself had already struck? If he rushes at Neji and ends up in the position you are claiming he'll end up in a block is all he'll need to survive since a few hits from Neji isn't going to put him down.
And Sasuke completely evaded Naruto's fist the first time and the second time as the images show.
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Meaning that cut must be from the pressure or "shockwave" of Naruto's attack.
Neji won't be the aggressor..this is backed by his style in the manga. 3T doesn't give any images until Neji decides to move and at that point it will be too late because we see from the scans that Neji doesn't move until the very last minute when a strike is in his range for a parry or dodge for his counter attack. My question is would Sasuke then be able to recover faster than Neji can strike in that single instant?
Recover? What aren't you understanding? There is nothing he needs to recover from. A light punch won't leave him in any disadvantageous position like when Naruto rushed him at full force.
I'm not sure how you can say this when at the bottom of this post you mention light punches would cause Neji to stagger. Why wouldn't that be applicable in Neji and Lee's fight. Lee is stronger than Neji and he would need just a punch of his to cause Neji to stagger and then wreck Neji. And as far as we know, Neji never lost to Lee.
A point difference is a big stat jump. .5 is the normal jump in stats we see.
Lmao a light punch that actually connects with Neji properly would cause him to stagger. Why are you even bothering to mention Lee and Neji's sparring matches when those took place before the Chunnin Exams, meaning that's DB 1 Lee and Neji. That Lee is not superior to Sasuke at VoTE in CQC. As for Gates, you have no idea how many Gates Lee may have used against Neji during their sparring matches as they are all off screen.
Ok, you have a point there.
Understandable.
You haven't proven it isn't necessary to tag him. Neji evades all his strikes neg diff.
Lmao and why would I have to prove that it ISN'T necessary when no feat he has would warrant the opponent to need super fast striking speed to strike him? Don't try to make a claim and then say "you can't disprove it so I'm right" please. Not how you argue. The only back up I saw for this point was that Lee needed Ura Renge to defeat Neji, but that's not because Neji can evade all of 5G Lee's strikes as I've already shown so the amount of proof you have for this statement is literally zero.
Not counting those nonsense spider web and dagger dodging feats for reasons already explained.
That someone was faster than Neji in movement. That someone was coming from distances with a single linear punch. We are talking about cqc here are we not.
That someone was coming at Sasuke from less than 5m away (KN0 and KN1) with back to back attacks (only KN0) and Sasuke still dodged him. Not sure what that has to do with my point anyway.
I disagree with at bold and i'm open to you proving me wrong about it. A dying Neji seems to have moved his hands 64 multiple times in an instant here.
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Also consider just inserting chakra wouldn't be enough to make Kido spin that excessively.
Lmao you cannot be serious with this. Where did you get 64 from? Where do you see Neji using 64 palms here? Kidomaru was hanging upside down, Neji jumps in front of him, jabs him and he spins around due to the force and dies. Please don't try and continue arguing that Neji struck 64 times in an instant.
No it doesn't lol..Kido doesn't direct the daggers. Those daggers were fast enough to force Neji into dodging them one by one instead of heading towards a direction and jumping over the waves or sliding under them.
Which proves what exactly? Cause nothing you just said had anything to do with what you just quoted. Neji had to dodge them one by one because of the area they covered, not because of the speed. :lol
- Kido clearly explains the reason for the daggers on Neji's back (You must be registered for see links). You expect them to hit his blindspot exactly but that's not what the manga shows as we see none actually hitting the base of the neck where the blindspot is. (You must be registered for see links).
Yeah, I misread this part right here. Agreed about the daggers in his blind spot.
@underlined Are we talking about the part after Sasuke gets 3T and then punches Naruto? If that's the case, i disagree. That punch that connected with Naruto's face was as a result of timing not speed. Without 3T to give him precog i highly doubt he'll be fast enough to punch that Naruto.
It yields the same result in combat so it barely matters whether or not it was raw speed or not.
Sorry but your reasons that the feat is not amazing don't add up. @bold does it really matter when its obvious they are only a few feet from him and it doesn't look like he's even steady/ready to dodge them?
The daggers you are bigging up literally have no notable speed feat that'd let you claim that someone who can pummel someone faster than Neji will evade all his strikes "neg diff". That's the epitome of wank right there. This becomes an amazing speed feat for Neji when you can provide a scan of these daggers doing something extraordinary.
You're implying light hits would cause Neji to stagger and as i mentioned before, that's a tactic that would have worked for Lee since he's faster and stronger than Neji but as we know, he never won implying Lee with all his strength and superior speed never tagged an inferior CE prelims Neji.
-CE Lee w/o Gates is not on VoTE Sasuke's level in CQC. Him failing to land a hit on Neji is irrelevant.
-You can't show that Lee used the Gates or not against Neji. Something he probably didn't do given that Gai told him not to
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unless he was protecting his comrades.-Hitting him once and causing him to stagger wouldn't win him the match it lets him get a clean hit in.
So all you have is that CE Lee w/ weights on and without weights couldn't tag CE Neji, but a DB 1 Lee w/ weights on and without Gates would get stomped by Sasuke in close combat, especially since Sasuke has copied his weightless speed and has far superior reaction speed going by feats.
-No proof that Neji can evade Weightless Lee "low diff".
The only panel I ever found of Neji "neg diffing" Lee was before Lee changed his hair style and his clothing, i.e before Gai started training him.
