Ranking All Cheating Methods In The Chunin Exams Written Test 

Did Shikamaru know the answers or he relied on Ino as well?

@@wisequigon if shikamaru knew the answers their team had a backup plan of him just connecting his shadow with his team and writing 3 tests at once

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Sakura's cuz there wasn't any cheating 😏 Alr jokes aside, it was neji's and Sasuke's cuz doujustu are too powerful

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The proctors ignored her just like Kishimoto lol

Tenten actually doesn't exist

Her stealth is so good that the cameraman can’t find her for most of the time

I think that the Mirrors where already there for the examiners to find the cheaters but Tenten used them

@@marceloasensiofilho3833 That would actually make sense. Otherwise I can't explain why she carries around a mirror with pre-made holes with kunais attached to them. Getting the strings around should be possible through some anime logic or jutsu.

Plus there was a strike system where you have to be caught multiple times to be kicked out, which was a big clue that they were meant to cheat. Tenten could have gotten striked and it wouldn't matter, that doesn't remove the mirror from the ceiling.

there is a big difference how it was shown in the manga and in the anime. And in the manga its actually pretty hidden. U cant see those small mirrors behind the ceiling or from the side. In the anime they just... much bigger and just... there. Why.

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@@ThermiteKitty Ah, clever girl. cant get kicked out if you just cheat once using a huge mirror. 1 out of 3 is still 66% I guess.

I like to think it was more a case of "This is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life but I REALLY wanna see where this goes".

Naruto didn’t cheat out of confusion and fear. Sakura didn’t cheat because she didn’t need to. Really the true art of a ninja is tricking the enemy into thinking you know what you’re doing. She tricked the proctor into thinking she was cheating inconspicuously when she just had the answers. Naruto on the other hand panicked worse I did on a biology final with the same results I got.

Feels like a cop-out to me

Hinata, Kabuto and Shikamaru probably didn’t cheat either

@@amaterasu1322 no, with kabuto I’m pretty sure those info cards were used.

@@changvasejarik62 You passed your bio final for being stubborn? 😬

by that Sakura being at the top makes absolutely no sense. What are you going to do, make up or guess the intel yourself?

@@naehalmulazim Information is key. Having the knowledge of things work and operate is also very crucial. Hence why she passed. And I was we see later on, it proves to be correct since she uses her medical knowledge to help her team. She wouldn't be a specialist in spying, but as support instead...

Half of the genine use abilitys their clan had been using for decades, centuries? The proctors would already be fully aware of kaibas dog. Or sasukes sharingan or nejis byakugan.

@@robertharris6092 The proctors weren’t their to find cheaters, they were their to find good Shinobi, it was just to see how these kids went about gathering information and if their methods could be used well in the field. If they just needed to find cheaters they wouldn’t have let Kankuro continue nor would they have literally designed the test with cheating in mind, they placed 3 “genin” who knew the answers around the room specifically to be copied off of.

Yeah tenten is the weakest one in the series. She could not beat her clone 😅

More like the whole series

@@miciso666 so sad, especially for a ninja whose entire niche is having damn near infinite tools

@rubenaguilar6277 Nah her best feat was soloing revived Kakuzu. Admittedly she had an op weapon though.

o yeah but anyone coulda done that stuff. i feel like she got so much missed potential. as a weapon master imagine her on the level of shikamaru. pre planning all these booby traps and stuff. she can literally summon weaponry out of scrolls. @@EresirThe1st

they did see and write it down as 1 strike. but you need multiple to fail, so she passed.

They just felt bad and let her carry on so she can get at least some screentime

@@3AnxiousFerretsInATrenchcoatGood point. It’s like having an open casket funeral. You know you’re never going to see this person again, so the least you can do is honor them. These guys are nicer than Kishimoto and the entire fan base.

Tenten solo 10 tails, madara and kaguya at the same time. Wut yu talking about bro??

If they questioned her it would require more screen time, they didn’t want that obviously 🤝🏾

other than naruto, any of the students shown here cheating could've studied and easily passed the test easily but instead used abilities probably because they were too lazy to study or it was just because kishimoto wanted to showcase their abilities lmao Sakura has nothing other than maybe above average strength atp in the series haha

@@user-nd6kj8yp8uaverage sakura hater.. hayst

​@user-nd6kj8yp8u Most of the characters in that room had spent the majority of their free time practising their combat skills and chakra-based powers. Sakura, being naturally fairly weak, had spent more time studying than probably anyone else in the room (even Shikamaru likely studied less, although in part because he'd grasp the concepts faster and in part because of laziness). I wouldn't say she was the smartest, specifically because of Shikamaru, but she was definitely the hardest working academically, and Ino could clearly see that for herself.

​@@user-nd6kj8yp8uactually you're wrong here. Not only did Sakura show that she could answer honestly here, she was consistently shown to be able to master non academic concepts quicker than people considered prodigies. Look at how quickly she mastered chakra control compared to Naruto and Sasuke. And later her ability to break out of Genjutsus that an entire stadium of people weren't able to do or notice. I am not a Sakura fan, but while her intellect may not be considered genius level, it is certainly up there and simply studying would not have allowed her fellow classmates to get the answers correctly. She even herself acknowledges that the questions are way too difficult, there is no manga canon in which they even acknowledge she got all the answers correct

@@user-nd6kj8yp8uyou are a grown ass man beefing over a pixel 😂 embarrassing

That makes Sense

its invisible to the naked eye

​@@animejerk05weren't kakashi and rasa able to see the eye

@@animejerk05 How?

It floats there in the open, AND Gaara blinds person it's in front of with sand causing them to whine out loud in pain while rubbing their eyes.

​@@Ultima1134garara said in the anime that it's invisible. Not sure about the manga

I always got the sense theres an element that the proctors were judging certain cheating methods by how effective theyd be in the field not necessarily a class room. There are obviously various forms of intelligence and different ninja will be better suited for those types. For instance Kankuro using Crow obviously wouldnt work for the classroom but could work for a low scale infiltration of an enemy strong hold, the example Ibiki uses at the end of the exam. In the Sasuke retrieval arc Shikamaru strategically places Neji and Kiba at the back and front of the platoon lines to account for their differences in Skills. Kiba using his sense of smell to lead the way and sniff for traps and Neji to account for blind spots in the formation. Obviously other methods of cheating like Inos would be less noticeable on a mission where the squad is several feet away and therefore more valuable in gathering intelligence than they would be in the classroom setting. I think it was definitely more of a "would this work on a mission" type scale than it was actually getting caught

Gotta imagine they were just hard eyeballing Sakura thinking “I just can’t figure out wtf she’s doing” and she’s just too legit to cheat.

@@ElSandwich777 I wonder how effective her "method" is when it comes to being a ninja. I haven't watched the show, so I don't know

@@sdmitch16 very effective given it relies on your intelligence and general shinobi knowledge

Hiw did they spot the sound guy?

Does he have eyes? Or is it a grub? All in all dog manipulation and insect manipulation is bad, Hinata is doing all the work.

But Ino’s jutsu is more of a handicap in battle as while her mind is in someone else, her unconscious body is open for attack.

They do have mind readers. But that would also ruin the whole point of the test. So even if there were 1 or 2 present and searching people minds they still can't really bust them because the only mind related Shinobi we know of ate leaf shinobi. Haha.

My question is though how does he know whats being written based solely on the sounds? People write differently and with different strokes and pressure on the pencil etc. It would be so hard to identify what's even being written or to be able to mimic the motions.

@@lucario2able maybe he can pinpoint the movements being made based on that cues: "+0.00001db? straight line up" for example. if its so precise it shouldn't be difficult for him doing so

@@lucario2able It's Japanese, their writing system has specific ways of writing characters/words. The number of strokes is kinda set in stone and one way of looking up words in dictionary is precisely by checking how much strokes a word has. So its much more doable with that in mind when compared to english where hand writing can vary strokes wildy.

​@@lucario2ableyamanakas cant really mind read to say they can see people memories and control there mind they cant actualy see what u are thinking

*Didn't the anime make it a point to show Hinata solving the problem on her hands or am I stupid* 🤔

@@VergilLover69 Perhaps, I don't remember. It's been a while.

doesn't make her dumb. She just operates differently. Now if she struggled to solve even simple math then yeah, but i don't believe we actually know what she solves. Also ninja training seems to require being gifted in some way at least. I doubt she is below average.

@@VergilLover69 Thats a great way to pretend youre not cheating tho

to my knowledge she did the same as Sakura, shes the Heiress of the Clan and has had Tutors since she was born she's probably the most educated among all of the Kids by a long mile. Sakura is just smart. Shino's is definitely the best method to collect information the sound guy's is unreliable and still requires him to use Chakra to enhance his hearing while Shino's bugs don't need Chakra to exist and inform him. He should be #1.

With how small Shino's bugs are, I think his would be one of the best abilities for Intel gathering, the leaf ninjas would know about the aburame clan and their use of insects, but anyone else outside of the leaf? I don't think so. Shino's bugs are small enough that if he sends a single bug to spy on maybe two people's conversation, he would manage to get info without being detected, because no one would be able to notice one small bug, and if they do, they won't really care about it. A big herd of bugs might be a bit more suspicious tho. And he also has all sorts of bugs, poisonous and dangerous, it's a very useful ability. But I don't know about communication tho, I don't think kiba and hinata can understand the bugs, so it would only work if the test is multiple choice questions, so the bugs can just land on the answers. If it was one word answers or big answers, the bugs won't be able to answer them.

Shino being the strongest character in naruto as usual

Who tf are you

And many have countermeasures against infiltration in such way.

Literally any sensory ninja invalidates that

@@edgarvega5859 thing is, outside of a wartime situation, is a villi age going to have sensor ninja examining every random civilian wandering around, sure it may not work for heavy infiltration, but could easily be used to observe where guards are posted and their rotation schedules and such

Lol but why the face all crumbling appart tho, the sand ninjas got shoddy craftsmanship

@@PortCityBalrog well I mean this is Genin Kankuro, so not only was he probably a bit rushed in trying to implement his cheating strategy, he's also not that skilled overall, compared to later appearances like by comparison the puppet ninja from Boruto's Chunin exam arc had a puppet copy of himself that was so close to the real thing no one could tell it wasn't him

It's what we missed when shippuden started. Shippuden just went further and further into power scaling fighta

Ya. After the chunning exam ended the world building and ninja aspect went out the window in favor of ott action fights.

Imagine if Naruto had actually followed through with the Hunter x Hunter inspiration and we saw stuff like this in the middle of major fights. Instead we just get "I figured out your technique!" which is more similar to DBZ.

@@drewrobinson5562 well part 1 still handled ninja tools well in the retirval arc i blame Shippuden for the lack of ninja stuff

​@@drewrobinson5562 naruto was never about ninja

It's not intellect, but knowledge, and Shikamaru doesn't have this kind of knowledge. That's why he needed Ino.

Also remember there was a disguised Orochimaru - he totally did ace the test

At least both Shikamaru and Sakura are smart enough not to use their special abilities to cheat unlike like Sasuke who copied the person in front of him, Ino who possessed Sakura’s body to cheat off of her, Kiba who used his dog to bark the answers which could have gotten him thrown out, Shinto who used his bugs to find any answer that’s more logical, Neji who used his Byakkugan like an X-ray to see the answers of the person in front of him, Ten Ten who used her mirrored to help Lee cheat off of her, Kankuro who used his puppet to gather info or Gaara, who used his sand eye to copy off anyone’s answer.

But Kiba definitely could have been disqualified since his dog just barked up the answers and dogs aren’t very quiet.

Turns out the prospectors just liked dogs 🐕 lol

If there was an inuzuka's clan instructor it would be obious

They can make a good case for it since ninja dogs are a well known ninja tool in that universe.

​@@vegetaxful but there wasn't and they weren't gonna get someone just to be a dog translator

@@Nerthos It's not a court, and you can't disqualify someone for potentially cheating 5 times. You kind of gotta prove it, to yourself. No making a case, you either know, or you don't know. Most people in the world, don't KNOW that Akamaru was giving him the answers.

Or maybe he had tech implants. I mean, Zaku did.

@@tudornaconecinii3609Naw, Dosu was just certified him

I believe he has to enhance his hearing with Chakra control which is very skilled of him to do for sure but its still unreliable for gathering information compared to Shino's bugs which are not Chakra enhanced in this state no way to detect it unless you're just paranoid and kill all bugs which the proctors could do since they know his clan exists but in a normal intel gathering situation which what this test was trying to simulate Shino's method is definitely #1.

Which is why its such a SHAME/ TRADEGY that the Sound 3 were KILLED OFF when you had Kabuto's 2 Team Mates who don't even have names and are still alive later in the story!!! The Sound Trio were the characters that were DONE the DIRTIEST even more so than Tenten!!! Or who ever else got Done Dirty!!!

SightlessSenshi is a professionnal Fighting game player who was born blind. He fights only reacting to his opponents' inputs and their character's sounds. This is an unbelievable level of skill that somehow exists, so yeah, I think Dosu can asolutely pull this off.

Bro's out there ordering kunai and mirrors

Bro is being Implanted with the Sharingan DNA

bro's about to get dog barking out the answer

I mean didn't they have an hour though

@@kidkouga92 Well yeah they had, but these were hard questions, so I'd assume the answers were not a few word trivia answers. I'd say that 100 characters per answer is a generous minimum (your comment is 38 characters for comparison). They only had 9 questions to have to cheat, which is about 900 characters. Let's say that the bug can convey a character in 5 seconds, which is (again) were generous based on what we so, and that's assuming the bug has some very impressive memory so it doesn't have to go back and forth a lot 100*9*5 = 4500 seconds 4500/60 = 75 minutes And then we also assumed that he didn't need to thing for a moment what to do in the beginning even though he at least had to read those long ass questions, then decide he should cheat, then somehow find someone with proper answers, not some half assed attempt to answer (the bug won't know that, Shino will know it after taking a bunch of time writing at least a sentence or so) So yeah, even if we're very generous, it's quite a stretch (again, this comment is 1176 characters, so it'd take even more time for him to copy even though this is nowhere near enough to answer 9 hard questions)

Dude, that meant the bug was relaying the answer for _Question_ 8.

If he could teach Morse code to the bugs (wich doesn't sound imposible for him), it would be faster and pretty efficient.

@@hectorcolman5948 Indeed. It should be within whatever restrictions the world has considering these bugs can understand his command to get the info and can replicate it in multiple trips already It would have been really cool if that was introduced, it sounds like one of the first things these bugs should know

Yeah but no one like a snitch

she can also mind control sasuke cuz she likes him, at the end of the day she can be scummy but i think she has honour

@@IIIISai not only that but if there's also the possibility that if she fucks with people too much with her ability, odds are the next day her body is going to be missing

Ultimately the exams are a way to gauge a village's power in comparison to their peers. It would be counterproductive to mess with other Leaf village teams beyond what's necessary to pass.

@@VegaSlides That's true I guess - I stand corrected! :) Still, if she did expose others, would have ended up in the eye of Danzo for sure haha

That sounds lit 🔥 lmaooo

😂😂😂😂

it's to show the power of friendship no jutsu

Talk no jutsu is a passive ability.

Social engineering lol

@@prettyfly969 Power of Friendship is what One Piece does.

Rizz no jutsu

They had just 2 points deduced for each instance of cheating. So if he could get all the answers at once, then he'd still pass.

@@med2904 technically they didn't need any answers to pass

Not in the Dub I watched he says something like had enough time with ur dolls?”

​@@HexManiac-nf1yg if Naruto was doing nothing on purpose to call the Jonin's bluff that would be kind of genius, if anybody knew ahead of time that all you needed to do to succeed was just not get eliminated that's pretty much the perfect strategy

Yeah, the whole video makes no sense if you don’t know the rules of the exam

@@Eziopct Yesss, and sometimes this kind of videos exist only to bashing Ten Ten or other characters, they just don't know or forget about the rules.

If only they could actually read the tiny answers from the ceiling reflection way above them.

​@@GeteMachineIt is a chakra enhanced mirror with lens effect.

​@@kazedcat That sounds so dumb that I 100% believe it.

@@kazedcat Yeah, it's fantasy, can pretty much magic around any technical challenges.

but if the sharingan user is in the first row... he is fu***d xD

I mean if I was a dude from Hidden Leaf and saw Uchiha or Hyuga dude with sunglasses I'd immediately be like something is wrong. So yeah still not a subtle way for this specific situation lol.

@@zan4336 Brah byakugan is ez mode in this test. All that really happens when byakugan is activated is their eye veins are more visible like an upright dick but it has almost 360* vision. Ultimate cheat!

@@mykellederickpalad7883 exactly. It's definitely harder to notice than a sunglass lol

I think they need to see for them to work.

I thnk it was more about just pushing them to think they werent being caught and if they could invent ways to cheat to help their team. It didnt matter if it was obvious as long as it worked, where as if you cheat in an easy way like showing your answers to the person beside you, it would be lazy and that would likely be the bad cheating.

He definitely should. He's cannon a genius, but he's so lazy he probably actually doesn't know all the answers right away and refuses to figure them out legitimately either.

​@@dr.calibrations7984honestly I think he figured out you don't actually need to answer anything to pass.

​@@dr.calibrations7984Yeah. In his fight against Temari, Kurenai said his academy written scores weren't much better than Naruto's and Asuma said it's because of his laziness.

From the manga pages where Sakura reads a question, I'm assuming other questions are similar to that one, aka require knowledge not just intelligence and deductive ability.

Have you read Lighting Up The Dark? I'm pretty sure that fic made me think the same thing about the canon story

Cheating before the cheating exam even begins. Impressive espionage work, pass with full marks

​@@danielgreenwood793then she cant even find the room she prepared in advance, truly Tenten's speed is incredible to be faster than the story

I like imagining Tenten set up those mirrors during her academy days and no one bothered to remove them inbetween her graduating and the chunin exams

Not only that but there are two kunai per mirror. So the way she had to throw them...

It was probably made for scouting missions or something meant to be quickly deployed for corner peaking or something tenten ingenuity

Lol

Wait why does frank have a knife and what's frank going to do with the knife

​@@dust8286umm ino took over Frank I think

@@torenjohnson2585 oh well sucks for frank

​@@dust8286 cmon man frank helped me through the chunin exams. can you like, idk, concuss him so that ino chick is unconscious too?

Makes sense. I'd argue that the test is also a way to gather intelligence on the abilities of the genin from other villages, so they would rather leave them do their thing until they simply mess up and it gets too evident. For instance, Gaara's sand eye. There's no way that they don't see it, but they let it be just to see how it works.

Yea then the sharingan got all the like God teir boosts haha.

​@@lucario2ableYeah; early on it was fine, but the sheer amount of powers Kishimoto gives the Sharingan in Shippuden is ridiculous.

@@kohaiame2691 it's why part 1 is way better, and hebi sasukes (sasuke early Shippuden before the truth about itachi), that sasuke mastered the sharingan no ms and it wasn't broken, but as soon as he got ms he relied on susano

@@IIIISai lost the curse mark and all the cool shit it came with as well no more snake substitution jumping on his sword to fly like a bad ass no flying black chidori such a shame

@@IIIISai Agreed! OG Naruto >>>>>>> Shippuden any day of the week!

Probably could only due it a couple times in succession due to chakra but if she used it against one or two threats... sheesh, that's broken

This idea really makes me sad that Ino never reached her full potential in battles

She could, but there's no reward for doing so. The fewer students there are to examine, the more attention the proctors will direct to the remaining students.

Yeah, I figure it was more misdirection. It was less, don't get caught cheating. More, don't cheat so poorly that normal people and Genin would spot you.

Agreed, if you didn't know they were a ninja and had background information, how would you know they were cheating

I know I'm late but I remember them being clear that the organisers planted students who knew everything

There are a couple plants in the room.

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It’s not very inconspicuous only thing worse is sasuke and ten ten

Yeah, that and Shino seemed to be leagues above the others in terms of reliability. Being able to copy someone's movements or listen to their writing only works if you can find someone who is writing the answer you need at that time, and you're limited even further by not being able to compare that person's answer to someone else's. Neji and Shino both were able to look at all the answers from all the students at any time, so they could just choose to find an answer they liked for every single question.

It's definitely god tier in this exam. It doesn't matter if the byakugan user is sitting infront cause it has almost 360* vision unlike the sharingan.

@@DianaTheLanceHinata too cause she most likely used her byakugan too, which is why I think Hinata & Neiji should’ve shared #2 cause while Neiji PROLLY! Wouldn’t know who would have all of the correct answers but Hinata was at the academy with Sakura so she would prolly know that Sakura’s really smart so she could look at her answers. They would just look down and be careful about using the veins and it would be a success. So I think it deserves #2 more than Dosu’s hearing skill, especially since how would Dosu even know if the answer he’s hearing is for the question he’s on, at least Hinata and Neiji can look at all the papers at the same time while looking down

Having great memory is real in our world too Imo by the databooks also had the best written grades from the academy Sasuke only beat her in physical work

And in a "real world" setting she can just hide her body while using her technique after all, all she needs is a clear line of sight and for her target to hold still for a time

They are ninja. One of their role is to collect informations. remembering quickly a lot of information is probably part of their training

It was admitted Ino's techniques were specifically designed for spying so having good memory skills is basically required as spies have to be quick to drop incriminating evidence if caught.

exactly, the questions were hard but not impossible to answer

No Hinata did not cheat on the exam.

Yeah I don’t think she cheated either which goes to shows she almost, if not as, smart as Sakura

Not quite smart as Sakura but up there😏

She actually offered to let Naruto cheat she was so confident in her own answers

exactly

About Naruto not realizing the shared experience of the clones: if I remember correctly, before Kakashi's training, he straight up says he thought the pain and exhaustion he received from his clones when they were dispelled is because the jutsu is just very tiring, especially in the middle of combat. Also, he never lets a clone get too far away from him, they're always in the area: the first time a clone is not within eyesight is when he trains with Kakshi. I don't know if he just never thought of that or he always assumed that for the jutsu to work, the clones had to be close to the caster, but for the entirety of Naruto and first half of Shippuden, he only uses the clones for combat, soccer and playing card games

While I do agree that the clone experience is a retcon, Naruto primarily used his clones for battle purposes beforehand.

The simple answer as to why he missed that idea: he's an idiot

Naruto's clones sneak into the proctors' houses, identifies their waifus, then transform into them to seduce the answers out of the proctors. Flawless plan.

They were just weeding out the sloppy cheaters

I mean, a ton of the no name genin who were eliminated in the first exam were leaf genin though

@@jordanmanley9172 they were fodder and the leaf still needs some quality control. If you get caught enough times even when the proctors aren't even looking at you that hard, you deserve to stay a genin.

If I were a client I'd want to hire the guy that shows up at the end, soloes konoha and kills the hokage. That's the one my money is on if I want a mission done.

​@@Nerthosyes but remember, the Sannin were in the wars, and Orochimaru went through Akatsuki, hiring international criminal is efficient but its dangerous too if the employer gets discovered

exactly you only lose 2 points when caught cheating; anybody could've just stood up looked and memorized somebody's test then sat down all -2 points

@@Rio..o7.. and another thing: we didn't seen HOW and WHEN she tossed that kunais with attached mirror. It is possible that she did it exactly at the moment when Ibiki intimidates everyone with exam rules and stuff. So, proctors could appretiate her self-cpnfidence and ability to use moment when no one is focused on her. Kinda valuable ability for ninja: to do not lose focus in the stress situations.

That's probably not the requirement, though. We already know the test instructions were misdirection. Why would you assume that the guideline for losing points are accurate? Most likely the proctors defaulted to "Would this get past a normal person or Genin" when deciding whether someone was caught cheating. I doubt even Gaara or Sasuke's cheating methods went unnoticed. But they wouldn't get caught by most people.

@@saltyk9869 Fair point.

You lose two points for the cheating method being spotted. You are allowed to be spotted once or twice. Lets assume every time you take over a body they deduct points. 1 for getting answers 3 for giving them. You have 2 left, your team answer 100%. Thats 22/30 which is 73% overall. The same as everyone getting 73% individually. So its probably very good. It doesn’t matter if you’re caught, what matters is how many points you can get for the least deductions overall

I always thought that she did it before the test started, like they knew the room, she just needed to sneak in, set it up, sneak out, and pretend she saw nothing

They say that, but reading between the lines reveals that what actually lose points for is "a normal person would find this highly conspicuous"

Shikamaru is also academically smart, like Sakura.

Shikamaru answered 100% all questions himself. What he probably did was help Choji and manipulate him with his shadows and take control of him and at the same time fill out his and Choji sheet with a 1:1 movement. Ino only helped herself with her method, as we also saw.

I've always thought he probably just closed his eyes like a lazy bastard and after Ino did the mindtransfer and wrote the answers down she berated him in private later

Didn’t shikamaru just not write down anything because he was too lazy

​@@averagegamer6831Naruto was the only one with a blank exam

The only issue is while that would work in hindsight, they did establish that shadow clones can return info back to the original until Shippuden. If Naruto learned he could do that back before the time skip, Naruto would have leveled up past almost every other person in his class too quickly.

​​@@DarkcIoud1111. He did level up faster than anyone, especially in the tai jutsu in which it probably came from all the dispelled clones. He was just copying Sasuke at first when it comes to the naruto barrage. By season 3 he can execute it by himself and with clones he can even make it more devastating. He used clones to manipulate rasengan but even in Shipuuden he can actually do it without a clone, he's just more comfortable with a clone doing it for him and eventually it led to him developing rasenshuriken. Probably his perfect chakra manipulation, which surpassed Jiraiya and Minato at the age of 17, came from all the experiences the dispelled clones brought back to him.

@@user-pi1lb4tf2f Naruto did improve quickly, but he was also one of the worst students when he graduated because he is mostly self taught. Even Kakashi only teaches the team the basics before focusing all his time on Sasuke. Naruto's biggest jumps in ability happen when he is actively being mentored by Jiraiya or from his outside-the-box thinking, such as using his clones to make up for areas he isn't good at himself (chakra manipulation and tiajutsu).

I alwats wondered that because everyone generally loved the chunin exams for how detailed, tactical, philosophical and them actually acting like ninja in training was compared to the later series where its all just thrown out for powers. The tone of the anime is very different up until the Sasuke retrieval arc.

The early part of the Chuunin exams was my favorite arc in the whole series because of the written test and the Forest of Death. But once the test format changed to not one but two tournaments, it fell apart even despite some of the fights being genuinely cool. Up until then, participants would have to be whole teams, as Kakashi explained before Team 7 went into the exam room, and the written test would pass or fail the whole team instead of just one or two members. But now the tournaments were splitting them all apart. After Shikamaru was the only genin to make chuunin, how would Ino and Chouji get to take the test the next time? There was a filler arc that tried to answer this, but it was quite underwhelming. It's a shame that this tone shift was likely the result of the editor making Kishimoto switch to a more cookie cutter shonen.

That's not how it works. Then I will get up, go check Sakura's paper and write the answers coming back to my place. I will repeat the same for all the answers. As I am using same method, they shouldn't cut more points right? Even if they are using the same technique, they will be cutting the points as many times as thay have seen.

@@ravitejaknts Yo. I was being sarcastic.

@@ClashBluelightno you werent

@@ravitejaknts But you are getting up three times and then sitting down. Making your action 3 separate instances. But if you got up ONCE and just stayed at Sakura's desk the whole time then you would have only cheated once. TenTen technically only cheated once.

This

Them: What about Uzumaki? Head Proctor: He's the main character and his father built this building, he automatically passes.

*audience

So you are a foodie like me

All that was in part one like naruto vs gaara or naruto

Lost interest in the series once Naruto was found to be literal ninja Jesus.

@@glens2019 naruto was never about ninja and it is shonan so of course there will be battle

The actual ninja are the ones you don't see.

@@jatmo6991 Exactly

I mean them or any if the jonin sitting in providing answers for them to cheat off of....

@@lucario2able True.

Skyrim stealth level.

Could be barking in Morse Code--not a "secret language" by any means.

In real life, the enemy would be annoyed by a dog barking. In the exam, a proctor should have noticed as well. Cheating = information collecting. You don't want to be obvious about it or else the enemy will feed you false information.

Even Ino would got only three out of five strikes (one when possessing sakura, then one each for Shikamaru and Chouji). Also one thing to keep in mind is that they theorically didnt get any "luck" on the test, since it's said the instructors actually put them on positions where they could take the info to begging with (even going as far as having multiple fake genins to facilitate the gathering of the right answers). Ino, Sasuke and all those "would be screwed if in the first row" probably werent there because the examiners didnt want they being completelly useless.

@@albertonishiyama1980 Ino gets caught three times and that's -6 points for Ino, -6 points for Choji, and -6 points for Shikamaru as well. That's a massive fall. Even just one mistake is actually -2 for the whole team, so it can end up snowballing quickly.

last time i checked, kiba and his clan have a completely different bond with their dogs. he’s shown multiple times that akemaru and kiba can communicate with each other.

Dosus method was the best method. It's trained not no bloodline. And nobody is going know anything.u can see Sasuke's sharingan

​@@AsadAyub-kx9xwDosu*

Ba dum tss 🥁

No Dosu had the most subtle cheating method Gaara and Shino were better too