Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
Kakashi isn't stupid either. Fact is, he's smarter than Naruto, or roughly as smart as Naruto, in battle. He's also sharper.Plus, if Naruto uses the Kage Bunshin too much, Kakashi will likely be able to use his Sharingan to pin-point the real Naruto. (Sasuke did that at VotE I believe)
Oh i know, Kakashi is much sharper, and probably a little smarter in combat. But if there were hundreds of narutos around, he wouldn't wast his most chakra wasting attack on a target he isn't sure is the right one.
I don't think they can tell with sharengan, all the shadow clones have the same amount of chakra, what is VotE?
I've been thinking about this a bit more, and i think kakashi would win most of the time now. on one hand, naruto in sage mode would own kakashi, but, it takes time to get in sage mode, and he needs to sit still, or have the toads fuse with him, which he never actually learned to do. regardless, both take time, and in that time kakashi could kill naruto, using his superior techniques and experience to get the job done.
on the other, naruto just goes all out, knowing that if he waits too long, his head would simply be gone. he makes hundreds of shadow clones, using hundreds of rasengans (if he can without the kyuubis help) or whatever. but, even here, kakashi has knowledge of this technique and would know how to counter it. he would probably use the shadow clones against naruto somehow, and win that way. or whatever, kakashi is just too smart and too good at what he deos.
really the only thing naruto has going for him is raw power, and determinedness...and really fast, really good, combat strategies.