Who truly benefited from their training with the Sannin? Naruto, Sasuke or Sakura?

[Bakura]

In terms of knowledge, maturity, new techniques, just overall growth as a character? Thoughts?

 

[FemmeFatale]

Sakura >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sasuke >>>>>>Naruto in terms of training

Sakura was all on her own

Sasuke was one her own , and curse marks

Naruto just learned rasengan and sagemode nothing else really

 

[Peculiar Chester]

Sakura gained the most, by far.

 

[Brady]

Naruto hardly learned squat.

Sakura grew as a ninja, but realistically her skills would have gotten her killed early. Slow, but powerful taijutsu is easy to counter, especially when your chakra is visible in your fists.

Sasuke grew the most without a doubt, not even trying to fanboy here, but he almost killed Team 7 at the hideout with Kirin.

 

[Bakura]

In terms of knowledge increase i would say Sakura does outshine Naruto and Sasuke by far

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

Naruto.

He inherited his master's will to return peace to a world at war. Although he may have gotten short-changed, power-wis and had a toad teach him all of the stuff Jiraiya should've...I consider Jiraiya to be the most important. He basically fashioned and aimed a messiah at the world.

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[Peculiar Chester]

Sakura grew as a ninja, but realistically her skills would have gotten her killed early. Slow, but powerful taijutsu is easy to counter, especially when your chakra is visible in your fists.

Sasuke grew the most without a doubt, not even trying to fanboy here, but he almost killed Team 7 at the hideout with Kirin.

Sasuke was a monster that could go toe to toe with a jinchuriki to begin with, though. Sakura went from having essentially zero combat ability or role in her team to being an S-class fighter and Konoha's best medic.

 

[FemmeFatale]

Naruto hardly learned squat.

Sakura grew as a ninja, but realistically her skills would have gotten her killed early. Slow, but powerful taijutsu is easy to counter, especially when your chakra is visible in your fists.

Sasuke grew the most without a doubt, not even trying to fanboy here, but he almost killed Team 7 at the hideout with Kirin.

Sakura taijustu being easily avoided is filler brought about by kakashi, when in actuallity it was rarely failed her. Sakura has a vast arsenal of unseen medical ninjutsu, and she could self heald without seals or hands in the Sasori fight. And I think that a serious non emotional Sakura couldve gave Sasuke a good fight

 

[Bakura]

Naruto.

He inherited his master's will to return peace to a world at war. Although he may have gotten short-changed, power-wis and had a toad teach him all of the stuff Jiraiya should've...I consider Jiraiya to be the most important. He basically fashioned and aimed a messiah at the world.

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Well said! Naruto definitely matured during the course of his training with Jiraiya and he had much more of an impact on Naruto personality wise then what Tsunade is to Sakura and what Orochimaru is to Sasuke

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

Well said! Naruto definitely matured during the course of his training with Jiraiya and he had much more of an impact on Naruto personality wise then what Tsunade is to Sakura and what Orochimaru is to Sasuke

Without Jiraiya, the series ends at Nagato destroying the Leaf and mentally crushing Naruto. Jiraiya taught Naruto his life mission and set him on a path to save the entire system of evil whilst Sakura got turned into an actual ninja and Sasuke just used Oro for jutsu freebies/grooming.

 

[Brady]

Sakura taijustu being easily avoided is filler brought about by kakashi, when in actuallity it was rarely failed her. Sakura has a vast arsenal of unseen medical ninjutsu, and she could self heald without seals or hands in the Sasori fight. And I think that a serious non emotional Sakura couldve gave Sasuke a good fight

Slow taijutsu that's based purely on power will always fail you in a serious fight. Kishimoto was merely trying to show her growth, but you and I both know that Sakura's taijutsu style is easily avoidable. A non-emotional Sakura cannot give Sasuke a good fight, it'd be a waste of time on her part. Sasuke's Sharingan would see the build-up in her fists and his precognition would allow him to avoid everything. He's incredibly fast, far beyond her own speed.

In my opinion, Sakura would die quickly in one of the Great Ninja Wars.

 

[~Ethereal~]

Sakura, she was so bad in part 1. Sasuke was already skilled, so yeah he just improved more and Naruto....oh god he was so underwhelming. But this is before the series decided to flip flop with powers.

 

[FemmeFatale]

Slow taijutsu that's based purely on power will always fail you in a serious fight. Kishimoto was merely trying to show her growth, but you and I both know that Sakura's taijutsu style is easily avoidable. A non-emotional Sakura cannot give Sasuke a good fight, it'd be a waste of time on her part. Sasuke's Sharingan would see the build-up in her fists and his precognition would allow him to avoid everything. He's incredibly fast, far beyond her own speed.

In my opinion, Sakura would die quickly in one of the Great Ninja Wars.

I feel like you didn't read the sasori fight, Sakura was seeing through Sasori's attack pattern on her own, without Chiyo's help. Tsuande trains her not to die, her eyes are sharp, grant her a precog of her own. A two tomoed Sasuke already admittied that her analytical ability was superior to her own. And a Three tomoe Sasuke analytical ability did increase, but not enough to effectively out manerver Sakura. Someone keeping up with Sasori, reading her attack patterns and avoiding them, his attack weren't slow at all. Even byakugou Sakura has shown reaction feat on par with Rinnegan Sasuke and RSM naruto, with Kaguya chakra arms.

Yes, Sasuke will she the chakra in her fist, but even he wouldn't want to engage her in H2H combat sasuke is fast, but he had nothing at that point that would counter her fist, espeically given that she could self heal.

Sakura's intellect and reflexes are heavily underestimated.

Sakura would be the last on to die in a GNW, as seen with Tsunade.

 

[Styles]

Obviously Sasuke it's not even close.

 

[Troyg39]

In terms of knowledge, maturity, new techniques, just overall growth as a character? Thoughts?

Knowledge: Sasuke. Sakura and Naruto gained more linear knowledge (medical ninjutsu, sage mode) while Sasuke gained knowledge on a variety of subjects, including sage chakra, forbidden jutsu, medical nin skills, and other worldly knowledge, since he was being taught by two actual scientists. He's the only one to have learned a sample of the knowlegde the other two gained and more.

Maturity: Sakura. Of the three, Sakura's training was most centered around her transition into ninja womanhood/adulthood, with her desire for wanting to be trained being more about her own personal growth than a goal involving other people, like Sasuke wanting revenge or Naruto wanting the strength to save Sasuke/the world. Sakura did want to save Sasuke and depend on Naruto less as well, but she still trained more for self than the other two while actually becoming more mature in the end.

New techniques: Sasuke. Oro and forbidden jutsu? Nuff said

Overall character growth: Naruto. Of the three, Naruto ended up being more refined and sure of himself post-training. His new found ideologies, though tested heavily afterwards, ulitmately didn't waver. Though she made great strides in maturity, Sakura's personal growth was stunted a bit by her personal issues with her relationship with Sasuke and dependency on Naruto. Sasuke's goals ultimately shifted several times due to him originally seeking training without full knowledge/understanding of what he was trying to accomplish. Naruto's personal growth saved the world, and actually led to more personal growth for the other two.

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Who truly benefited: They all did. But Naruto overall. Of the three, his reasoning for beginning training and goals for post-training, were the closest to the actual results of his endeavors. His only real failure was not "saving everyone" in the sense that some of his friends did die. But he accomplished his main goals without having to alter them as much as the other two.

 

[HyuugaHeir]

Sakura achieved a Tsunade 2.0 tag
Naruto got SM and Jiraiya's will.
Sasuke had Oro's err, i dunno.

I'd say Sakura benefitted the most from Sannin training. Both Naruto and Sasuke had other mentors anyway. Sakura only had Tsunade, primarily.

 

[Pumpkin Ninja]

Sasuke grew in terms of power and it's hard to compare Sakura's growth in the medical field to that, I can't say. Naruto turned into Jesus though.

 

[Team7monaa]

Naruto hardly learned squat.

Sakura grew as a ninja, but realistically her skills would have gotten her killed early. Slow, but powerful taijutsu is easy to counter, especially when your chakra is visible in your fists.

Sasuke grew the most without a doubt, not even trying to fanboy here, but he almost killed Team 7 at the hideout with Kirin.

You seem to forget Sakura's skill set included high intelligence and evasion. She can dodge onslaughts and analyse an enemies move and plan out her next attack and now she has Byakugō, she is technically indestructible.

Sakura went from a smart genin to a kage-level fighter and elite medic.
She's won.

 

[Dgrayman]

At the end of part 1 naruto and sasuke was already pretty strong.

sakura did because in part one she was straight trash, but then after training with tsunade she went from trash to a peice of trash

 

[Brady]

You seem to forget Sakura's skill set included high intelligence and evasion. She can dodge onslaughts and analyse an enemies move and plan out her next attack and now she has Byakugō, she is technically indestructible.

Sakura went from a smart genin to a kage-level fighter and elite medic.
She's won.

Sakura's growth is nothing compared to Sasuke's. Sakura is not a kage-level fighter.