I’m rewatching PoT…again. I’m at the point of the Junior Invitational Team…around episode 135-150? And I thought I’d imagine my dream team, based on their skill at that point.
Yukimura Seiichi (S1)
Tezuka Kuministu (S2)
Echizen Ryoma (S3)
Atobe Keigo & Fuji Syusuke (D1)
Sanada Genichirou & Kirihara Akaya (D2)
Tachibana Kippei (R)
These guys are all national level players…the only real combination that needed to be thought out was the doubles. I dislike the idea of putting Sanada and Kirihara on the same team…but the key of these 4 individual players in the 2 doubles teams is Fuji Syusuke. He has a lot of singles skill but can play doubles as well. He’s also at the level that he can cover Atobe and “control” him. Sanada and Kirihara wouldn’t be good with Atobe and his ego. You could do Atobe and Sanada as D1 and Fuji and Kirihara as D2….I really like the idea of putting Fuji and Kirihara together…except we already saw Sanada and Atobe as D2 so it’d be boring.
The difference between this team and the anime one is that Yukimura Seiichi, Tezuka, and Tachibana were all recovering from an injury/surgery. In their place, Oshitari Yuushi (a poor man’s Fuji), Sengoku Kiyosumi (who may have been my choice after Tachibana), and Kikumaru Eiji (seriously, WTF IS THIS GUY DOING HERE). I really hate that the anime junior invitational team was 3 Seigaku + 1 Seigaku coach. There’s plenty of talent to go around! Tho I would definitely have the 3 Seigaku monsters, Tezuka, Fuji and Echizen in the team. So my real beef is just with Kikumaru.
Seriously, the only reason Seigaku’s team is so good is because they have 3/9 players that never lose. Out of 5 games, if they all play singles, they’ll always win! The others are all hit and miss.
Anyways, I like imagining what ifs like this.
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Like in the Chuunin exam in Naruto, what if Rock Lee fought any guy OTHER than Gaara.
He would have destroyed:
Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto, Dosu Kinuta, Akado Yoroi, Zaku Abumi, Tsurugu Misumi, Yamanaka Ino, Tenten, Kin Tsuchi, Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuuga Hinata, Akimichi Chouji
He would have fought and, I believe, most likely would have beat:
Uchiha Sasuke, Aburame Shino, Kankuro, Temari, Nara Shikamaru, Hyuuga Neji
I guess some of those are a little iffy. He was still better than Sasuke at the time.
Shino’s skilled…and I don’t really know the extent of his strength. I’ll have to watch Naruto filler some time.
Kankuo and Temari, they’re both skilled and good ninja….but Rock Lee imo should be able to take them
Shikmaru’s a tricky one…I would say he and Rock Lee are more opposite than any other match up. Brains always beats brawn but can brains beat speed? I dunno?! (I can see Karol absolutely in disbelief at what I wrote here…but she’s got a Shikamaru bias…).
Neji….pfft, even Naruto beat Neji. He also got turned into swiss cheese VS spider-man….he’s not so great (actually, I think his Kaiten is pretty awesome :D i love the idea of “absolute defense”)
I guess my opinion isn’t really fair either as I’m bias towards Rock Lee. Cuz he’s fast. Like the Flash. And the Flash will beat anyone in a fight…and here’s why.
I agree that if Rock lee didn’t go up against Gaara, he would have done a lot better. But then that leads to someone else going against Gaara and someone else being screwed over. However, speed isn’t always the absolute defense as we’ve learned =/ I think Shikamaru will most likely have a hard time with it but as soon as he picks up Lee’s movements he’d be able to get him in a shadow binding like nothing :p Plus we all know the reason why Lee was able to put up a fight with random bone guy was because he drunk and his moves were unpredictable.
Yeah I don’t understand why Neji is the only jounin in the group. He didn’t even seem all that good when Naruto went up against him… So the only thing I can think of is that being a Hyuuga allowed him to climb the ranks faster…
Well, giving it some thought, Shikamaru’s a close range fighter, so is Rock Lee. And Shikmaru’s shadow moves pretty fast…being a light based techniques with no resistance, it probably moves potentially as fast as light but probably limited to the speed of his thoughts. Though I guess it’s also limited by distance the shadow has to travel, having to stay on the surface of objects.
But anyways, Shikamaru probably would catch Rock before Rock had a chance to beat his lazy ass to a pulp.
Okay. Explain this to me. Shikamaru catches Temari. How does he win from that point on in the chuunin match? He raises his hand and forfeits…if he didn’t forfeit, what could he have done in the amount of time he had holding her with the Kagemane no Jutsu? There’s no wall to concussion her…I don’t quite get where the “win” could have taken place? Am I missing something obvious?
Well the win I guess is the fact that he COULD have like done something. But like technically he didn’t win at all… The only reason he was made chunin was because of all the strategy and stuff he did.