Tensegan or Rinnegan? Which is stronger?

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As by the subject goes ?
What do you think?
Well i think that The existing answer didn't seem satisfactory, so I'll try to give you my opinion.
You see, Kaguya, the progenitor of all chakra, the one who ate the chakra fruit, possessed a fusion of the Rinnegan and the Sharingan in her third eye, along with the Byakugan in her pair of eyes. The Dojutsu that Kaguya's Third Eye possessed is called the Rinne-Sharingan.
When Kaguya had two children, one received the Sharingan that would later develop into Rinnegan (Hagoromo inherited this) and the other, Hamura, inherited the Byakugan. The Byakugan develops into the Tenseigan in Hamura's descendants.
Now that you know the history, on to your question - which is more powerful?
As we all know, there is hardly anything ever mentioned about Hamura, apart from the odd mention or two. On the other hand, Hagoromo is of legendary status among ninja of every land. Hagoromo is the one who can control the flow of chakra to go into the future and past. Hagoromo is the one into whom the Ten Tails was sealed. Hagoromo is the one who split its power into nine different parts, thereby creating the Tailed Beasts. This is the level of power that the Rinnegan gives. The Tenseigan, on the other hand, is a like a level up of the Byakugan - it has always been part of the branch family.
You see, to seal the Ten Tails and/or defeat Kaguya, both Hagoromo and Hamura's powers were equally important, i.e., the Rinnegan as well as the Byakugan/Tenseigan. But if we're talking about power, the Rinnegan has always been stronger - Hagoromo Ootsusuki was the Sage of the Six Paths, not Hamura Ootsusuki.
I hope this helps, cheers!

PS. WE WILL BE SEEING BORUTO GETTING TENSEGEN!
 

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Tenseigan I believe just for the chakra mode and destructive feats , golden wheel will slice open chibaku tensei with ease
 

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I think its simply because the effectiveness of the two eyes. Rinnegan is the attacking power, the show off bully one gets attracted to, whereas tenseigan is the introvert nerd.

I believe the very fundamental cause of tgeur existence is different. Rinnegan is more powerful? Yes, because we tend to judge power by ones attacking strength. Tenseigan is a defence mechanism whose attacking power are far less than rinnegan.
 

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True true because I would rather have the rinnegan but the tenseigan was being used by in experienced ninja I felt like if momoshiki had it it would bring out its true power... but then again the rinnegan is more associated with the God fruit and jubi it would be more potent
 

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The Tenseigan was shown being used by Toneri. Hamura would be able to use it to an even greater extent.
 

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Tenseigan I believe just for the chakra mode and destructive feats , golden wheel will slice open chibaku tensei with ease

The chakra mode couldn't even stand up to KCSM Naruto, who wasn't using Rikudou chakra. Imagine how hard it would've got stomped if Naruto used BSM or RBSM... As for Kinrin, it's got scale but its potency wasn't notable. Especially when you consider the moon in Naruto is pretty hollow.

OT:

KKG Rinnegan > Tenseigan
KKG Dual Rinnegan >>> Tenseigan
6T Rinnegan >>>> Tenseigan
KKM Rinnegan >>>>>>>>> Tenseigan

It's got it beat in raw power and definitely wipes the floor with it in versatility.
 

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I would go wth Rinnegan until Tenseigan somehow ends up in Boruto or anyone who can display to us its potential. Toneri did but it would be interesting to see someone else wielding it.
 

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there is a cool Jutsu that the Tenseigan grantee, nb4 I made a thread about it


and BTW my OP was wrong, it is not Puppet-Cursing Sphere. it is called Localised Reincarnation Explosion
 

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Rinnegan smashes.
 

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We won't know for sure since the tenseigan is a retconned creation by kishi.

Whether its conception is made when Kishi introduced us to Hamura is unknown as well.

Why? Because if he had, why didn't Kaguya have it?
I can only come up with 2 reasons.

1)
He did not want to spoil The Last movie

AND

2)
wanted to retire early so he simply cut it out of the fight that would have prolonged his misery and the fight

other than that, I'd say that he simply did not want to include tenseigan because he didn't know it at the time.

With that being said, we can derived that based on what Hamura and Toneri had done is tenseigan can give the user 6 paths much like attaining if the rinnegan is attained.

People often are most focused on Rinnegan being able to do the 6 paths when that is simply not true.
In order to gain access to that is by simply being a RS.

of course you would be needing Yin god chakra AND Yang god chakra for that.

Rinnegan is simply Yin dominant Yin-Yang
Tenseigan is Yang dominant Yin-Yang

If we review this duality, one is more focused on the doujutsu = Yin while the other in chakra = Yang.

Madara = sharingan
Hashirama = sage mode

Neji = byakugan
Toneri = chakra mode

so we can assess that 6 paths is strictly not unique to the rinnegan due to Hamura creating the moon and Toneri being able to exhibit them during the movie.

Rinnegan has a unique ability only based on the user much like the MS abilities.
Madara's rinnegan has limbo
Sasuke's has Ameno

We can speculate that Tenseigan does have unique abilities but would derive from the CM rather than the doujutsu.

Toneri exhibited these by mainly using the TSB during his fight against Naruto.

So it is not ideal to compare tenseigan v rinnegan when their techs are not known to us fully.

We will have to exclude the 6 paths and only look at unique abilities in which of course rinnegan has more feats due to being shown more.
 
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I forgot it creates TSB even more powerful , but mainly used for defense if it has ying/yang properties , cmon u guys can't tell me it would give dual rinnegan a hard time
 

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Any Rinnegan > Toneri's Tenseign.

But the Dojutsu itself, maybe if used by a proper ninja... could be better
 

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I guess Hamura has his own way of doing things and ended up possessing Tenseigan, an enhanced form of Byakugan. I wouldn't mind a clean retcon for Boruto series if they are planning to tie it in.
 

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I know everyone and their mother likes to talk down on the tenseigan, but it's a pretty strong doujutsu. Toneri was pretty on par with full kcsm naruto(who possibly used rikudou chakra). On the other hand, rinnegan has more potential. We don't know how strong hamura was with the tenseigan though, still hagoromo would be superior due having the juubi's chakra.
 

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Tenseigan is just like Byakugan which shows potential but unless developed or paid attention to, it is definitely weaker than the rinnegan.
 
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