Originally posted by Kento
Except for Tsunade taught her more than just medical ninjutsu. Obviously with the whole super strength thing, and Sakura remembering Tsunade teaching her that a medical ninja needs to have good reflexes so she doesn't get hit. And who knows how many time Tsunade has hit her while Sakura learned to dodge Tsunade's punches. And the same way Naruto can summon but it's not part of his fighting style. Jiraiya's fighting style involves summoning, one of Pein's bodies fighting style is summoning. Tsunade has summoned twice. Once Katsuya because Manda and Gamabunta was summoned, and just now to heal the village. Her fighting style isn't summoning it's taijutsu.
Which seems to be about it, Jiraiya trained Naruto for 3 years, but we don't see any new Ninjutsus or him using any genjutsus. Jiraiya is obviously capable of Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, swap of the underworld, etc, all those things, thats why the whole "since we don't see Sakura using anything, that means Tsunade is incapable of those things as well" is fallacy. We've only seen Tsunade fight like twice, for about a minute or two a piece, which like i've said, isn't enough to gauge that Tsunade is only capable of that.
The didn't really appoint her..Jiraiya did. And she's the most skilled Medical Ninja, and respected because of it and because she's a sannin. Why wouldn't they put somebody like that in charge?
The entire village agreed obviously, or she wouldn't be up there.
I don't remember Gai using it for that long of a time.
He used it for a couple minutes atleast, although if you're going by the anime, alot of it wasn't shown on him, it was shown on Neji, Lee, but thats still after Gai released his gates.
No Gai's best would be what he can accomplish under his own power. The Gates aren't his own power but something to unlock greater power but at a price. And when Lee's muscles snap Lee isn't exactly moving around at high speeds anymore. Which is still moot because Lee used the gates, without any real experience at using them, longer than Gai did. Gai's also a lot tougher than Lee so he could take the punishment it puts on the body better.
The gates are his own power, it takes skill to learn how to open the gates, like Kakashi said when he saw Lee open his gates he said it wasn't just hardwork, that boy really is a genius. Gai opens his gates when he fights seriously. Lee's muscles snaps in mid-air while he was blitzing Gaara, no where did it say Kakashi couldn't keep up, or did it even suggest that, all the jounins clearly saw it, only some of the genins weren't able to keep up.
It's not holding back. Gai's own power isn't the gates. So you're trying to say that Gai is so weak he needs to use to gates to be on Kakashi's level pre-TS? And that Gai always uses the gates when they fight in a one-on-one friendly match?
Gai's Gates are just as much his power as Sharingan is Kakashi's. I'm not trying to say he's weak wtf are you talking about? Gai needs to open his gates, and Kakashi needs to use his sharingan, both are eachothers power, just because Gai opens his gates it makes him no weaker then Kakashi using his sharingan. They probably never even had a match before, they probably just seen what eachother are capable of, and Gai called him his equal thats it. But if they ARE equal, then that would mean they are equal when they are both fighting seriously, not holding back.