Why was Amaterasu so Useless?

[@sixfromtokyo]

Thank you for watching :) (Also on the Sasuke section if I missed a time where he used it just comment it I felt like I was missing one but I may also have just been like gaslighting myself)

[@gameuniverse5973]

200 pigeons vs six with a baseball bat who winning

[@PerryLePlatypus]

You wanna take a spin at a Kakuzu vs Pain vid? Lol

[@gameuniverse5973]

@@PerryLePlatypus Kakazu survived a rasenshuriken and lightning blade which both attacks pain did his hardest to dodge and when they hit they pretty much one shot the targeted path of pain .......... Nah jk preta counters him and he gets his soul rip off

[@JusDarkSage]

Where the Boruto Content six ????

[@spongebobsucks12]

Not temari using wind release but kankuro using puppet strings of chakra. But everything else was gold 🪙

[@Spider-K]

I like how as soon as sasuke gets amateurasu everyone is able to start dodging and tanking that attack

[@gameuniverse5973]

Literally sees Sasuke outrunning the Amaterasu than itachi was sending out H U H

[@gabrielhoelzle8476]

I guess that's why you shouldn't give instawin abilities to main characters >.> Either they're going to end every fight easily or it's going to come off as disappointing

[@_rockystart_]

​@game universe Itachi wasn't trying to hit Sasuke directly. He was trying to "clip" him with it.

[@Chris-rj4bt]

@@gabrielhoelzle8476 I feel like Kishimoto fell into that trap quite a bit in Shippuden

[@unclephillymya]

Itachi uses against Edo Nagato and he used Shinra Tensei

[@erdrick8670]

Amaterasu is kinda like when the villain joins your team in an RPG. Incredibly powerful and needs an entire party to fight when it's against you, but then barely stacks up to your existing abilities when you're able to make use of it.

[@owenblount7334]

Raikage would have died had he not amputated his arm

[@BurningBridgeStudios]

@@owenblount7334 Yeah... He LET it hit him though. Don't forget that.

[@owenblount7334]

@@BurningBridgeStudios he literally got it on him because he really wanted to deck sasuke

[@ktbmk]

@@owenblount7334 thats the point, it wasnt Sasuke hitting him with Amaterasu, it was Raikage who lets the Amaterasu hits him (remember that Raikage dodged an actual aimed Amaterasu in the same fight)

[@HassanAhmed-rf9xr]

@@owenblount7334 he wanted to double suicide

[@DanTheDoodler]

Imagine if instead of removing his clothes, Madara just let it stay there and burn while the Hashirama cells continuously regenerated him

[@snowboundwhale6860]

"Fire is not an effective way of dealing with zombies, because while the fire will destroy the zombie's body eventually, in the meantime you're now stuck dealing with zombies that are on fire."

[@quentinjones6877]

Interesting

[@yebzy]

@@snowboundwhale6860amazing reference

[@Tethloach1]

This always happens with over powered characters and moves. Over powered hand combat: (nerfs) Sakura (slow combat) 5th Hokage (slow combat) Rai kage (slow combat) Over powered characters: (nerfs) Pain (talking to Naruto) Itachi (less lethal) Obito (talking to Naruto) Madara (writer changes the story)

[@loliH9]

And then he starts punching everyone while the Amaterasu covers his body, the Fire Punch strategy.

[@kameronmiller2226]

It really is disappointing how such a cool Jutsu was never used to it’s fullest potential

[@banditkeith6479]

We never seen Madara use it nor Obito.

[@gameuniverse5973]

​@@banditkeith6479because Amaterasu is a Ms ability that only Sasuke and itachi got????

[@BitchChill]

Because it'd end everything instantly

[@jacksborns3414]

@@banditkeith6479 Madara and Obito don't have it.

[@avarice-j7y]

@@banditkeith6479 it’s not a jutsu and it’s specific only to itachi, the reason Sasuke can use it is because he got itachis eye

[@JKBlackClover]

The problem I have with amateurasu is how slow it is. For being so hot, everything it hits takes forever to burn if it even burns at all. Nagato, Madara, the samurai, and Jigen literally just sit there for a decent amount of time covered in it before they get a chance to dodge or absorb it and it does literally zero damage. The Raikage just casually cut his arm off with no urgency.

[@smileyent.3055]

Fr you’d think it was like dabi quirk or sumn

[@pkj2148]

Plus it makes inconsistent with its appearance on OG Naruto. It was able to destroy the toad guts and the wall in a matter of seconds.

[@150Hello]

That's my issue with it too, you'd think it would just immediately reduce people to ashes on contact, but apparently, there's enough time to get your outfit off of you 😒

[@OBsurdityTV]

thats just inconsistency. Did you miss when Itachhi Escaped Jiraiya?

[@lightyoshiman]

to be fair on the Raikage's part AY had high pain tolerance which is why he didn't react much to amateurasu or cutting his arm off he didn't even flinch when sasuke stabbed though his lighting armor with chidori

[@snowboundwhale6860]

Almost like what often happens with consumable items in games, "too useful therefore never used", Amaterasu gets it's cousin treatment of "Too potent when effective therefore never allowed to actually be effective". Narratively it's incredibly strong, but that means it either cannot be used frequently or everyone needs to be able to deal with it to justify why whomever has Amaterasu cannot simply incinerate their way to their goal. The way both of Itachi's MS jutsu are presented on introduction make you think they're the type of jutsu that could effectively negate power disparities, a hyper-potent attack that would allow the user to damage or outright defeat foes that otherwise scale much higher than them. This is part of why people rate Itachi so highly in vs battles with arguments like "He just needs to catch them with Tsukuyomi!". But then in practise they don't work out that way. Sasuke has to have his moment breaking out of Tsukuyomi to show his growth from part 1, so now there's ambiguity on where exactly it's limits lie, if Sasuke overpowered it or Itachi let him break out etc. Sasuke gets Amaterasu himself and is even more adept at using it than Itachi, but as a result it simply cannot be as powerful a jutsu as it was initially presented. It's like a triangle where you have to land somewhere in it's area; The corners are Potency, Presence, and Tension. If it's going to have a lot of presence and without sacrificing tension, the potency will necessarily be dialled back.

[@dan._.5720]

very well explained.

[@Itsivyyyy]

W

[@caiobispodossantossantana]

Amaterasu is like vegeta Such strenght, only to be used as a stepping stone in order to show how powerful some enemy is

[@fictionarch]

Amaturasu is an example of a power so broken it can never work. Like the spirit bomb.

[@gabrielhoelzle8476]

Itachi was so mysterious I bet not even Kishimoto knows how his abilities work

[@HeroSword_P]

Hahaha

[@paul_particularlyunhappynut]

least outlandish itachi wank:

[@astudent1743]

@@paul_particularlyunhappynut

[@spacenoodles3700]

@@paul_particularlyunhappynut not even a wank kishimoto just kept pulling broken abilities for itachi out a top hat Lmaoo. I was so confused seeing tsukuyomi and then amaterasu and then all his genjutsu tricks then susanoo then izanami and kotoamatsukami Lmaoo

[@paul_particularlyunhappynut]

@@spacenoodles3700 yeah ik, it's just a massive meme to say things like "madara/itachi soloed kishimoto, not even he knew how to beat him", when that in fact, did not happen

[@michaeleanthonyjr]

That's the problem of having an ability that is so overpowered that it landing is an instant win condition. Either it would always work, which would make fights boring because of its insanely easy activation condition, or it needs to never work.

[@dux5525]

I like to think of Ameteratsu as an OHKO move from POKÉMON. Sure, it kills things, but it *NEVER* works in an important battle, like the elite 4. (I used the event Suicune with Sheer Cold, it only killed Will's second Xatu.)

[@tomzydaone8976]

Exactly

[@elementallobsterx]

Amaterasu is the coolest thing ever. Everything from the name, to the sound, to the way it’s used, to the “burning for 7 days and 7 nights”.

[@haku7335]

But it got nerfed to death

[@TheRogue144]

I remember in the old Ultimate ninja games, Itachi had an ultimate where his Amaterasu was an instantaneous blast that basically instantly removed the target from existence, as if his looking at you reduced you to cinders in an instant, based off his use of it when escaping the toad mouth. He opened and closed his eyes in one moment and what he looked at was gone. To me, that’s much more badass than the current version

[@stefankeeney8462]

Yeah dude the video games use to definitely give me a “Mandela effect” where I would remember certain character’s abilities different than they were in the actual anime

[@limbo9993]

If you use the head canon that Amaterasu only burns the intended target, you could imply that's the reason that it didn't burn the Samurai, as he was aiming for the Raikage. Just a thought.

[@sixfromtokyo]

That samurai was screaming though ngl lmfao

[@meowsquared]

@@sixfromtokyo Maybe just fear from the shock of suddenly being on fire?

[@researchinbreeder]

It may only burn it's intended target, but I personally wouldn't want to be the one with a glob of sun-hot fire stuck to my metal armor. He might not be burning, but man's getting cooked

[@0axis771]

To put it in Bleach (S) Abridged terms: "That's ridiculously OP. But it won't ever work on anyone important." Once you have a skill that simply can't be beaten if it hits you the goal is to always write it so that it never either hits you or if it does, they can prevent it from harming them, like having the part burned removed or just making the flames be nullified.

[@AvatarYoku]

The issue with amaterasu is that it doesn't upscale well. We see a clear progression from sasukes chidori busting a wall to blowing up a meteor relative to his power progression. Amaterasu is already the pinnacle of fire release and stated to be as hot as the sun so how can it become any more powerful than what it is to keep up with the powercreep? It's not like chidori where you can enhance it with senjustu or six paths chakra, It's a hardcap justu that can't improve and worked only when it had the element of being unknown. The slow burning Aoe damage doesn't help either, giving an enemy way to much time to remove their, clothes, armor, substitute or even arm in order to survive its ridiculous. Blind Madara tanked amaterasu with his armor while just standing still and all it did was give my boy a literal warm up before he gave the gang an ass whooping

[@quentinjones6877]

The problem is characters got stronger, when you make protagonists too strong, you have to make antagonists stronger

[@Pj_Live305]

Didn’t Itachi use it against Yagura 😅

[@AvatarYoku]

@@Pj_Live305 yeah he did. Itachi beat yagura with amaterasu but had the element of it being unknown back then so it was more effective.

[@IamVybez]

@@AvatarYoku he didn’t even win yagura was still alive

[@bensoncheung2801]

69th 👍

[@isaacfloyd4023]

There was actually another time sasuke used it in boruto and that was in the sarada arc earlier in the anime. He saved sarada by using it on a trap that sarada had tripped when in shins hideout which made the weapon disappear or disintegrate almost instantly. He also used it on some of those sharp knife projectiles that shin used to penetrate sakuras shoulder which once again caused them to disintegrate almost instantaneously. He also used it to clear out a cave of white zetsu just before the chunin exams in boruto as well. The only problem with that example is that you don't actually see sasuke do it . You mainly just see the leftover flames still burning as team 7 stumble across them in the cave. Just thought I would toss in some extra examples.

[@Connor-wc6jr]

Amaterasu was too broken for future characters. Thats why speed feats got super hyped with Bee, Ay, War Arc characters, etc. It burned a hole immediately in the toad mouth yet next time we see it, it slowly overtakes Sasuke's Orochimaru-Style Substitution, then against Ay who was like standing there for 15 seconds until he sliced his forearm off. Its bad writing but the Jutsu can be wanked or shat on because it has some great and terrible feats. If Zetsu says it hits right when you are in their sight, idc how fast Ay is, he shouldn't have been able to dodge. Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu were way too powerful to deal with so Kishimoto slowly (like in my two examples) made it weaker/slower.

[@dukemustdie4822]

If Amaterasu wasn’t hard nerfed that 5 Kage summit probably would of ended very differently lol

[@MattAnd]

I was never surprised Amaterasu didn’t accomplish much, it’s basically the ultimate fire technique and fir is ALWAYS useless in pretty much any show/fight because it would otherwise be too strong

[@unnamed_protagonist]

In my opinion, Amaterasu doesn't actually do damage directly through heat. I think it's a fire-shaped chakra mass that consumes anything it touches. When focused on, like when Itachi used it to break out of the rock toad, it can eat through things way faster, otherwise it takes a bit to eat through. So it just burns away anything it touches until it's extinguished or runs out of things to "burn". This is why it can do wierd things like burn away fire (when itachi uses it to overpower sasuke's fire). It's not actually "burning" it, it's consuming it.

[@Jarikraider]

Expectation: Undying flame that turns all to ash Reality: Its kind of hot I guess

[@Scrappy_ill_fold_ya_Doo]

12:33 I was thinking about Micheal Jackson when you were talking about Madara's hair should've been on fire lol. But I think Marada absorbed it.

[@rhysjonsmusic]

Amasterasu accord to Vs debaters: A unblockable one shot insta kill jutsu that can't be extinguished and requires specific counters to not die from. Amaterasu in canon: Lul just take your shirt off 4head

[@FatMCSteve]

Cause it got powercrept

[@hobbyhorse5848]

A little clarification. When Itachi and Sasuke cast Amaterasu on the webs they didn’t repair themselves, they destroyed the webs aimed at them but Kabuto had already blitzed behind them and set up more webs at the back of the cave to corner them. So that was a W for them. Amaterasu suffers from the one hit kill problem of writing in that it’s a game ending jutsu that’s in the hands of one of the main characters, meaning that unless the author writes a way around it then it basically breaks so many writing opportunities. But it’s too big and impressive to be used for small scale stuff like when Sasuke cast a genjutsu on Danzo. So it ends up in this trap where it’s not used to end fights because that’s boring, but it’s never used effectively because of or-home number 1, ending up with a jutsu that on paper is not as impressive as the vibe it gives off.

[@shadowpriest2574]

The problem with Amaterasu and all abilities that are said to hit hard is that they are 1 shots, meaning that they will always be dodged absorbed or subverted in some way. These types of abilities are never meant to rly hit unless hitting does not mean a fataility.

[@armedweiss5531]

It's the same problem with genjutsu really, where so many abilities in Naruto are just instant "I win" buttons that make it VERY difficult to write around without including a bunch of workarounds to the ability in question

[@KaoticReach1999]

Since Amatersu keeps burning anything till its ash, when we saw it get on Orichimarus snake it meant, which would go with Jiraiya telling naruto to get back in part 1, that if you get it on you it'll reignite unless you can seal it or use the rinnegan to push it off you physically, otherwise it isn't goin away Would make sense too why kidumarus webs were able to regenerate, the places that were hit were burnt to ash, but he could just replace it, couldn't be done by someone that gets hit with their skin, further proof the ten tails having to take the skin off it was burning on as a whole

[@zirotsero6951]

11:25 i always thought.......... that sasuke could have just looked at the 10 tails anyway if he wanted to burn it amaterasu: insta-hit inextinguishable fire flame control(sasuke's typical use): launches/shoots inextinguishable fire susanoo flame control: uses susanoo to launch/shoot inextinguishable fire Kishimoto gave amaterasu a nerf under the guise of a power up

[@binatog123]

if this shitt happens of course kishi just would make 10tails Durability crazier

[@NRG-REC]

Amaterasu got what I've started to refer to as the Sakura treatment. Notice how on the rare occasions she did fight she barely ever landed clean hits unless the enemy wasn't human (puppets for example?) It's because for 99% of the ninja in the world, they'd be dead immediately if she landed a clean hit on them full power. Even at the highest tiers in this verse, excluding shit like kaguya, without regen, taking a single punch to the face is gg. It makes for boring fights. Kishimoto wrote himself into a corner with her and to a lesser extent Tsunade as well. Amaterasu's the same way. Shit was too op to plan fights around because it's an instant win as written against 99% of people. So all of sudden everyone can either dodge it or nullify it completely with things like the rinnegan or karma. In any fight that you want Sasuke or itachi to be in that's meaningful you have to either nerf them or it because otherwise what's stopping them from just setting every person they see on fire the instant the fight starts? Especially Sasuke with flame control. This nerfing to prevent instant kills ultimately resulted in a situation where the most meaningful damage it ever did was to the raikage and that's only because he took the hit on purpose to land one of his on so that barely even counts. Eternal black flames hotter than any other that can burn whatever you're looking at, have achieved less in the series than the basic fire ball jutsu.... shameful.

[@piodo7885]

Same thing with chibaku tensei, every time we see it used, most can breaks out of it besides Kaguya.

[@loliH9]

I liked Dygoknight's position on it. The Amaterasu was just too strong to be allowed to do things, if we go by its description it's an easy one hit kill that can be aimed by sight. Letting it work as intended would've ruined every fight Sasuke was in, same for the human path.

[@m.k.o7610]

No it wasn't, is Amaterasu stronger than particle style?

[@WarMastaP]

Just want to note. Obito acknowledge that if Itachi knew about Obito completely meaning either the first hashirama cells saved him or what I think was Izanagi. So Amataratsu still was OP even then.

[@namelessvoid9725]

@Six your theory was the same as mine but it's actually legit because what you described happens multiple times it hits the trees and likely burns them very slowly. It incinerates the entire eight tails in pretty much a minute but a bystander Karen gets hit and barely has any burns. A land of iron samurai gets hit by it because Ay Dodged it so he wasn't the target and his armor didn't immediately start to melt. Also danzo was the target and gets incenerated in seconds. Everything points to it's target being the one subjected to it's full potency.

[@JokinAround]

Cant wait to see it, thanks for all the content you've been putting lately

[@2_loko]

Great video bro🔥 i never thought amaterasu was that useless😂

[@Tre_Notes]

They hyped up the Amaterasu so much, you would’ve thought it was the equivalent of the killing curse in Harry Potter!

[@150Hello]

Try to picture how terrifying Amateurasu would've been if people immediately got reduced to ashes from just grazing it... I feel like that would've made it much more intimidating because the way it was displayed made all those crazy statements seem like hyperbole. Honestly, even the Scorch release Kekkei from Pakura looked more threatening than Amateurasu 😑

[@mups4016]

it's not just amaterasu. it's fire style im general.

[@erdodimate9017]

Amaterasu itself is not that strong But flame control is broken ,I would say is kamui level , because Kaguya didn't want to get hit by flame control ,even if she've absorbed it before It kinda negs the 98%of the verse because it can be solid like a rock ,and it cuts through everything because it burns through everything So like Kishimoto made amaterasu strong with the right eye of Sasuke ,kagatsuchi is actually that string

[@OBsurdityTV]

It’s definitely strong just not for plot

[@DaedraSas]

I LIKE THIS NEW FORMAT, GOOD SHIT MR SIX

[@sixfromtokyo]

Editing like this is easy I think imma keep doing it.

[@SuperSaku1]

Fire is seemingly pretty hard to utilize in anime in general, because if it works the way we know it should, fire attacks would literally cook everyone without a resistance to it to death, instead of the generic explosions we always get. Couple that with it burning forever and it's an unstoppable instant kill. You can't give Sasuke an unstoppable instant kill move because he has to be fightable, so you make things to counter it. It renders it as useless as Vegeta's ki blast barrages in DBZ. Underwhelming.

[@gameuniverse5973]

Natsu and fire force laughing at you with Natsu literally burning concepts

[@SuperSaku1]

@@gameuniverse5973 Fire Force is anime about fire, it fucking better accomplish something, and Natsu's whole thing is fire. Exceptions to a general trend don't disprove the theory

[@allipse8224]

Just observe the rate at which amaterasu eradicates objects vs jiraiya toad stomach summoning. - Raikage dodged it (makes sense) - Gaara's sand blocked it (doesn't make sense), his sand should have been eaten away quickly, ofc not every sand. - Danzo izanagi (makes sense) - Sasuke orochimaru-style substitution (make sense) - edo nagato shinra tensei (doesn't make sense, should have eaten away quickly). - Madara absorbed it with no rinnegan, blind (wtf?) - otsutsukis absorb it (make sense). - Naruto shrugs amaterasu off with kyubi v2 chakra cloak (wtf?) - Sasuke added amaterasu to chidori. It should have completely negated rasengan (acc to amaterasu definition). But amaterasu was just a powerup.

[@gameuniverse5973]

Because he put the cloak like a layer to get rid of it which makes sense it like Sasuke Orochimaru style substitution he gets rid of the layer the Amaterasu on

[@allipse8224]

@@gameuniverse5973 I'm talking about the speed with which amaterasu eats. Just see vs jiraiya toad stomach summoning. It led to a big ass hole in wall in few seconds. Amaterasu was nerfed badly.

[@Rdc_Dom]

The Nagato one is fine in my opinion being as he's a reanimation and is continually regening while he's being damaged

[@jashuastimphil4853]

I think it's the fighters they used it against , Jiraya,Sasuke,Obito,Madara,Gaara,Raikage,Naruto,Bee, SM Kabuto aren't going to be one shotted and it's the perfect counter against large summons but it would take out most of the ninja world I think.

[@ColbyTooley]

I think something that would have really helped the black flames out would have been like an added ability of if your hit even people who regen can't heal so even if you're a jinchuriki you will not recover if hit and burned

[@marlonwelty8016]

I think it’s kinda fair to interpret it as the intent of amaturas is to hit and the expectation is to kill/ win so it can b seen as more useful if u use that line of thinking

[@bijuutamer729]

Saying Itachi improved his stamina with the Amaterasu is interesting because it does add validity to the mutual kill scenario with Jiraiya he mentioned. Obito mentioned Itachi was medicating himself for his fight with Sasuke which could be why he was able to have a drawn out fight with Sasuke. In that case Part 1 Itachi may need prep time to kill Jiraiya and when he went to visit the village he didnt have it.

[@viyusavery248]

The answer to this is one rooted in storytelling laws Stories don't like immediate long lasting consequences this is why swords ⚔️ , bullets and acid can't actually do anything Blunt/impact type hits are better hence why kicks and fist fights work or even pierce type attacks (chidori)

[@BitchChill]

*Characters can shrug off getting blasted by a tailed beast bomb* *Dies instantly to a Kunai to the arm*

[@mT4945]

Obito should have taken Kakashi's eye in before Chuunin exam arc, before he even knew he had a MS. Then all his battle would have ended easily. Naruto should have If routes like Re: zero.

[@scleless1342]

Keep in mind that Naruto fights aren't just about damage. It's about forcing your opponent to use up his Chakra faster than you use yours. That's classic war, make the enemy utilize his resources faster than you do.

[@Taikue2024]

The goat uploaded once again

[@jay2coolfau]

Great video! By the way the pronunciation is CON FLA GREY TION, great word to describe it though

[@dandelarosa64]

You should just outright rank every jutsu in the series like this

[@noahlara13]

Amaterasu was OP. 1 hit KO on anybody. If they showed that, then the lingering question would be why not just spam it or you would always hear “why didn’t he Amaterasu there?” In most situations.

[@kobeglasscock7377]

The problem is that amaterasu was so op that Kishimoto had to make sure everyone else who encountered it could either counter it or just absorb it.

[@shironeko1843]

Amaterasu is the best paper shredder. And its best feats are destroying clothes and shadow clones

[@Sweetlesishere]

12:46 might be due to him being an edo tensei and how the clothes are apart of your body in a way or it's just an oversight on Kishimoto's part because Madara would look stupid with half his hair burnt off or if he tried to extinguish it with his MS

[@alexamderhamiltom5238]

i don't think kishimoto even care anymore at that point.

[@SunGodNika-bi2jr]

A Grand Amaterasu Fireball would be LIT!🔥

[@quentinjones6877]

I agree

[@ryan27229]

I dount count Sasuke failing to use it effectively against Raikage against him at all, because every time it failed it was because Raikage straight up threw caution to the wind in and suffered for it. He threw away his hand to knock Sasuke down, and then he was gonna sacrifice his life, because stomping on Sasuke's Kagutsuchi would've resulted in flames all over his body. That means it succeeded in granting Raikage a severe injury, and WOULD'VE been the greatest success of the jutsu in the series: killing a Kage level opponent.

[@racool911]

The only time I remember the ametarasu actually doing anything is when took out the White Zetsu in the Boruto anime lol. The ability is either too powerful or not powerful enough for a situation lol. Hopefully Sarada will have a better time trying to use it

[@anjan17]

hope sarada dont have ameterashu at all

[@BlzNetwork556]

Jigen gave us the biggest insight: “ah the flames OF Amaterasu” Implying that Amaterasu is apart of something, someone or someplace. So when it is used by Mangekyo users, they are only summoning small amounts of the full existence. Power Scaling in Naruto in simple terms = 1. Laws of the universe 2. Shinjutsu (manipulating universe laws) 3. Ninjutsu (mimicking shinjutsu) I say that to say: Amaterasu is A. either a Natural Occurrence on some planet, star B. Texture of some deadly, magical dimension C. Body part or signature move of a Godly being So the reason Sasuke’s & Itachi’s seem useless is because they are using at most 2% of it’s full might. Its full might is to scorch whole battlefields, terrains, planets at once Similar to how Kaguya summons whole dimensions to her location Or teleports her & targets to a deadly dimension that have instant implications

[@decidueyezealot8611]

Nice theory

[@BlzNetwork556]

@@decidueyezealot8611 thx!💯

[@Tob10k]

I wish this was canon

[@BlzNetwork556]

@@Tob10k it will be soon!!!! (Hopefully)

[@cozmyx25]

It's like the Gamma Knife attack of Trafalgar Law from One Piece which is super OP, both Doflamingo and Kaido received it with like 0 effect ...

[@hurdco7]

It's why instant kill techniques or near instant kill techniques can be difficult to write or deal with especially if your protagonist is put up against it or has one. Since it's hard to work around that ability for tension purposes. I'm not saying it's impossible because it has been done

[@jassinbarth6375]

Thats why you cant give the heroes op abilities like the villains. Cause they will either get nerfed or written out of the story

[@enderfox1699]

Okay here's what it did: 1. Helped Itachi and Kisame escape the Toad Mouth Jiraiya Summoned that was said to be inescapable. 2. Overpowered Sasukes Katon Goukakyuu no jutsu 3. Burned away The 4th Raikage's left Arm 4. Onced killed danzo...before he revived himself with Izanagi 5. Killed multiple White Zetsu's 6. Protected Sasuke from kabuto temporarily 7. Protected Sasuke whilst using a susanoo cage, wrapping himself in Amaturasu 8. Fused with Naruto's Wind Style Rasen Shuriken, it dealt some damage to Juubito, breifly. 9. Burned alot of mini Ten tail clones. 10. Burned Shin's metal weapons (That's all I remember from the series)

[@rattlehead999]

It's fire in general in Naruto. And that's because they shoot an enormous volume of it, so if it was actually strong, it would obliterate everything, I think that's the biggest problem. If it was compact like a rasengan or a chidori, then it would be better and could be allowed to do damage, but fire ball that is 3 people tall and wide, if it actually was damaging it'd scorch someone alive, same with amaterasu.

[@fawazahmed4978]

they shouldve kept amaterasu as OP unstoppable jutsu, but make activating it harder. like hxh nen conditions make sasuke have to fill a couple of conditions if you wanna use it on a real person, that way his new power is still broken but it doesnt make everything boring. bad example but idk make 3 conditions like 1) hit a fire style on him 2) physical contact, mark him with ur ms pattern like minato does with ftg 3) idk

[@fawazahmed4978]

and then fights will be able to make use of it, he can employ multiple strategies whether he wants to beat someone by filling the conditions or if he judges it more effective to win more traditionally without amaterasu instead - remove all the b.s ways to remove it like taking off ur armour or outreacting it everytime

[@venomz8888]

Great video! I don’t think Itachi burning Sasuke’s wing caused him to lose his curse mark as right after Sasuke uses Orochimaru’s substitution jutsu, he goes into second state of the curse mark to shoot fire style jutsu into the sky to set up Kirin. I believe it’s when Itachi stabs Orochimaru with the Totska blade and seals Orochimaru is when Sasuke loses the curse mark.

[@sixfromtokyo]

That's not what I was getting at when I said that.

[@venomz8888]

@@sixfromtokyo Ok, my bad

[@OBsurdityTV]

*Amazing Jutsu/concept introduced in Naruto* Kishimoto; “naah fuck that”

[@grantjames7504]

Can we get a vid on the other clans that were under utilized ,like how we go a whole show without hearing about the ketsuryagan or the aburame clan ,literally can send a mosquito at u and neg u

[@MrBmore1911]

Itachi used it to escape the toad, pressure Sasuke and to weaken Nagato. He couldn't manipulate it so it landed where it landed but he could extinguish it at will. It's a flame that never goes away and only burns what it's intended to. It's arguably the deadliest fire jutsu in the verse. It just got power crept terribly

[@p3mcthedoor32]

If you look at it, a jutsu that makes someone burn in inextinguishable flames is kinda broken in theory. It's just the drawbacks that suck and Kishimoto made many ways to counter it

[@deidaranohits]

1:14 "Con-Flah-Gray-Shun"

[@owesyoumoney3912]

Some of my fav stuff in naruto is jiraya using tbe sealing jutsu on the Amaterasu, how cool would that be to see mid fight, like Amaterasu is thrown and you just gotta throw a seal down quick or something

[@xpotoh356]

Situation with Amaterasu reminds me of any online game: Vs Itachi/Killer Bee: 1)Amaterasu can be outrunned 2) Just like 98% of MS abilities, can be blocked by fucking fog jutsu that even Chunin can use. Or even *mud* *wall* "It's Too Op NerF iT!" Since Kishi also hates Sasuke: "Added 0.1 second delay for *Sasuke's* Amaterasu" "Unlike Ama, inferno style not instantenious" "Nerfed damage" "It's Too Op NerF iT!" Sasuke gets EMS: Amaterasu can be blocked by chakra cloak. During the cast Amaterasu lowers user's IQ by 50. Damage nerf again. Ama does NOT scale at all. Can be not only pushed by shinra tensei, but ABSORBED by rinnegan. Amaterasu can be blocked, if you take off your clothes. Amaterasu can be absorbed, even if enemy doesn't have rinnegan. Amaterasu deals more damage to the user, than to the enemy. (HELLO SASUKE'S LEFT ARM)

[@ccmanga3063]

I liked that moment in the series naruto when sasuke got a tiramisu

[@ZzigZaG00NIN]

Having armor is too strong I forgot the samurai survived that lmao

[@juliusnovachrono4370]

Amaterasu should be extremely powerful but due to it being given to a main protagonist, its overall power and effectiveness is considerably decreased as the story develops likely because of its potential ability to annihilate everything.

[@ExtraVictory]

Damn that Madara situation really is hurtful to Amaterasu feelings

[@gentletal5101]

Dude used common sense lol

[@LowReedExpert1]

Downside of one-shot abilities is you can never use them to any useful degree because the reader will generally see it as unsatisfying and audiences want to see a full fight. Even OPM has to get tossed around a ton before the author lets him just flick away the enemy

[@crowsenpai5625]

The problem with an instant kill move is anime is meant to be exciting, and if the character just immediately killed their opponent, that would be boring and anticlimactic. It’s the same thing in Dragonball Z. Krillin is depicted as kinda a joke, but the guy has a move that is incredibly lethal. His Kienzan (Destructo Disk) in the beginning of Z was legit oneshot, if he could land that he could have bisected both Nappa AND Vegeta. But you know how boring the Saiyan Saga would have been if they showed up and Krillin just immediately killed them, as well as in the future the only people who he manages to hit can all regenerate.

[@Miguelito29373]

It’s kinda just like any other fire attack in anime looks cool but nobody dying to some fire ball attack

[@Bizeecentral]

It was used to full potential. It helped itachi escape jiraiya, helped taka contend with the 8 tails, it almost killed sasuke, it helped sasuke fight the raikage and render the raikage helpless, Its been used and shown how lethal it was many times, it was manipulated to greater efficiency, used as a shield defensively, used as part of sasukes six path rinnegan ability. Whats missing? Its so overpowered they probably didn’t wanna use it too much unless the opponents could do something about it cuz otherwise sasukes fights would be boring, predictable, and fasr

[@Thatgumurk]

helpless, in what did you see the raikage shurgg that weak shit off you watching a different anime get your eyes check

[@Bizeecentral]

@@Thatgumurk he was able to still smack around sasuke in his susanoo and even covered in amaterasu but he wasn’t actually hurting sasuke. Ofc he’d appear to shrug it off, his pride is on the line, hes in front of some of his peers fighting the person who dealt with his bro, hes gonna be very prideful and treat that like it was nothing but he was forced to handicap himself or else he’d burn alive. Amaterasu allowed sasuke to contend and do damage to the raikage. Idk if that heel drop would have killed sasuke through the ribcage but it definitely would have messed raikage up

[@JayEm1325]

It all went downhill after EMS became a thing, before that Amaterasu was STRONG and was tied to a significant cost to the user

[@gameuniverse5973]

Edo tobirama vs rinnegan Obito with his six tailed beast or juubito fight ems Sasuke would be cool to see how tobirama does against other Uchiha

[@CarbonMalite]

It kind of says something that 1 hit KO chakra moves were eventually powercrept in NARUTO.

[@scavengerace]

It's an age old problem: "lethal" and "powerful" abilities that 9/10 times fail to kill anyone or do any meaningful damage.

[@avarice-j7y]

Yep it’s reduced to shit because of plot

[@elhood4060]

Besides the paths of pain that are already dead lol

[@gameuniverse5973]

I kinda want to see a what if Sasuke kept the curse mark when he got Ms would he have beaten bee,have cleared the five kage summit,and would have killed Kakashi or Naruto at that point

[@quentinjones6877]

I wish he still had curse mark, it would've been his way of having nature energy

[@buttermanaws4693]

It was essentially so powerful on paper that they just had to nerf it in practice so the fights don't just because enton kagutsuchi and everyone dies

[@gameuniverse5973]

Not really there was counters to it since it was first shown Jiraiya literally sealed it away

[@gameuniverse5973]

@@paulw6812 because sealing became non-existent in the series even Minato stop using sealing when he came back unless you count ftg as sealing

[@gameuniverse5973]

@@paulw6812 last sealing i remember was shikimaru with that water scroll

[@gameuniverse5973]

@@paulw6812 oh yeah that counts but it a six path sealing which anything six path is strong it even makes kunai strong borushiki

[@roam980]

You wanna know what's funny? in the harry potter world, there's a spell called "protego diabolica" and it happens to take the form of black flames (according to the books), as it is shown to completely incinerate anyone caught in the flames in mere seconds

[@natte5332]

I don’t know where I heard it from if it was from the anime maybe but I’m pretty sure that it was said that the amateratsu is going to burn everything it touches to ash so if u wud get hit buy it or touch it it shud be gg but it’s seems to be mega nerfed. Cud you do a video explaining if it’s nefed or how it should work. I agree on that I think the jutsu has a command to burn just a certain thing that would make a lot of sense or else it wud be the most broken jutsu cuz everyone wud be turned to ash because of the flames spreading like a normal fire.

[@historyking9984]

I don’t think it was the izanagi Obito used to escape. Otherwise Sasuke would’ve noticed the similarity when Danzo used the same technique later on.

[@lillith7257]

it happened to all fire style and several other jutsu as well. it is a trap Kishimoto fell into a lot: either it one shots or does nothing at all. explosive tags are the most egregious since the only times they're useful are vs Hidan and random ninja in the war. If he did not have such a hard on for keeping people alive then it would not have come to this.

[@monkeydgoku6163]

A classic example on how a jutsu is so powerful that it was only used properly like once or twice

[@blackopspro6455]

after Itachi seals Orochimaru there’s a final small white snake that almost escapes only to get killed my Amaterasu. So it does have one kill I guess lol

[@MegaMyown]

I think the animals are implied to be immortal because they were eliminated/“killed” by Jiraiya but still showed up in later fights.

[@stefankeeney8462]

I feel like Amaterasu should technically be able to destroy all summoning creatures, susano, defensive barriers etc but it never does. It’s supposed to “not stop burning” but it seems to get shaken off easy

[@namelessvoid9725]

@Six and kaguya also absorbed the flames

[@BingeThinker1814]

Amaterasu was the jutsu equivalent of the "When you unlock him as a playable character" meme

[@consensualfrog5768]

madaras hair has plot armor