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Shutup. Are we really arguing for the Sasuke who lost to lee? VOTE 1 Sasuke > CE2 Sasuke > That Sasuke. Vote 1 Sasuke speed and evasive movements shits on whatever Kidomaru did to Neji he was only dodging hidden projectiles that not impressive what physical speed does Neji have over VOTE Sasuke? Im talking about movement speed VOTE 1 Naruto was dodged read and destroyed with no problem it was child's play for Sasuke, That Naruto is physically faster than Neji. Sasuke dodged KN1 Naruto Shunshin and dodged his initial chakra arm attack that alone shits on Neji striking speed you cannot even hold a candle to it. Rapid style? Stop only rapid movement he has his the trigrams which a jump plus katon counters so its moot.
I shouldn't have to address this, but I used the Sasuke vs. Lee battle as an example to support that the Sharingan isn't a magical tool and the user's ability to react to attacks is still dependent on his physical speed. With that being said, you can't disregard Kidoumaru's projectiles that Neji evaded. They were merely centimeters part at most and Neji evaded dozens of them despite the lack of time needed to even evade his attacks:
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Movement speed is irrelevant here when movement speed isn't even used in close-combat to begin with. Sasuke reacting to KN0 Naruto and KN1 Naruto is a representation of his ability to react to an opponent with a reckless fighting style, one who merely throws punches and kicks one at a time. It's not comparable to that of a Taijutsu expert such as Neji, so I would stop using that example altogether.
Neji's rapid-fire taijutsu was seen against Hinata which gives us a visual representation of how Kishimoto wanted to depict the technique and it falls in line with how Lee needed speeds upwards of what the 3rd Gates provided him to nullify any attempt Neji made in tagging him.
Overrating him per usual especially against Sasuke who dodged a much faster and stronger oppoent from close range who Shunshin right behind him. Neji emitting chakra from his body is only the body blow which he is not doing in mid combat never have and never did so mentioning it is pointless. What offensive advantage does he have? his striking speed which is moot because he is dodged Sasuke has more than taijutsu on his offense he has Chidori and katon which will ruin Neji. Not even close Sasuke will read Neji like a book and give him that Naruto treatment.
I've already addressed this, but simply having higher speed isn't enough to combat the Sharingan if it's accompanied by a poor and reckless style of taijutsu. This is why we're constantly given emphasis on the Sharingan's ability to react to speedy, but linear targets because the Sharingan is equipped into handling these situations. When we're shown instances such as Bee vs. Sasuke or Lee vs. Sasuke, we're given a direct representation that the Sharingan simply cannot keep up with these movements effectively and he'd need to have the necessary speed in order to maneuver around their rapid-style taijutsu.
The Sharingan was essentially well-equipped into handling KN0/KN1 Naruto's speed, but Neji's an entirely different fighter, with a more refined fighting style that does involve executing attacks in rapid-succession.
Neji's capable of emitting chakra through his body to nullify attacks if need be. It's essentially a portion of Kaiten that's used to negate the force behind attacks altogether and Neji's shown the ability to use it in response to close-range attacks.
Naruto was capable of defending Sasuke's Taijutsu?You must be registered for see linksNaruto could not even properly react and was forced into using his 1 tail which movement and striking speed shits on Neji and even then Sasuke could dodge him. The chakra arms is what gave Naruto the edge on him. What are you even talking about with the latter of your post.
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I was referring to this instance where despite Sasuke's advantage in speed, he couldn't overwhelm Naruto who possessed mediocre taijutsu. His Taijutsu didn't improve from the Sound 4's Pill and his speed didn't increase to the standard necessary to contend with Neji, so he's simply not overpowering Neji in taijutsu.
Neji's inferior movement speed is irrelevant for aforementioned reasons and Naruto's superior strike speed is useless when he doesn't perform multiple attacks in succession to begin with. Simply throwing punches or kicks one at a time isn't effective at all against a Sharingan user, but fortunately, this isn't something that Neji needs to worry about.
As for your counter on why Chidori cannot pierce rotation it's baseless Rotation was comparable to Gaara's sand shell defense CE2 Sasuke pierced CE Gaara's strongest defense at the time sand dome which was not even shown so it must have been the latter VOTE 1 Sasuke chidori >> CE2 Sasuke Chidori also whats Rotation best defensive feat? Kunai? Child stop it gets shanked right through. Jumping out then uses katon is possible we've seen Itachi do against Killebee Neji is not a speedy combatant not at least to Sasuke.
Neji's Kaiten and Gaara's Defense are entirely different with Kaiten being more equipped to nullifying the force behind ninjutsu through its rotational force that's capable of repelling chakra. I wasn't justifying why Chidori can't penetrate through it, but your claim is practically baseless and the example you've provided is rather poor.
The issue with that argument is that Itachi has one of the most proficient ninja in the manga in terms of using hand seals and his experience in forming hand seals in general not only allows him faster execution of hand seals, but also enables him to use less seals for each technique. Sasuke doesn't have that level of hand seal speed and still requires multiple seals to use Katon, so while using Itachi's more than capable of executing Katon at close-range, Sasuke isn't for these aforementioned reasons.
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