Shikamaru IS NOT the Smartest.. 

really good writers figure out how to write characters they cant physcially relate to! its not an easy skill to build, but its doable kishi's track record resonating with people ont like him is shown quite poor in numerous ways xD

….i’m supposed to be writing a genius, but ….. i can’t..i try to think of mcguyver and some other known genius, but its hard

@@iOnRX9 Show, don't tell. If you can reverse-engineer scenarios that show how intelligent your character is without making it look like impossible magic (Moffat's Sherlock) then you're on the right track. Ironically, you need to let the audience/reader in to the figuring-out so they can SEE the intelligence, but it's easy to slip into dumbing-down.

Then there are other points where other characters are made dumber to give the intelligent character a chance to shine.

@@iOnRX9 think sherlock more than mcguyver.... but dont give as many absurd stretches to the red strings they tie together... being a genius is largely about problem solving. so putting one and two together. Mcguyver is more recourseful than anything else. and thats a bit different

He still ends up using more jutsu than naruto ever uses 😂

I mean...when you put it like that....Lmao

Gotta use what you got 😂 he saw roof tiles so he threw roof tiles 😂

Wym bro its the Tile Thrower Jutsu

Tbf he was surrounded by roof tiles. Near endless weapons

Yea he’s not very happy to be hokage rn 😂

We all knew that 😂 he just lazy wanna be a cloud ☁️

@@deformedwater4749 he even kinda set it up where kawaki or boruto does everything he just gives notes from teh office lol

Asuma was VERY WRONG.... Shikamaru has done a VERY bad job LMao

He finds everything a drag. Asuma was being sarcastic.

Because they are the same. Intelligence is more than having a physics degree. Everyone with a PhD is intelligent, but not everyone who is intelligent cares to pursue a PhD or any form of science. Intelligence is innate ability, the ability to think quickly and creatively. To grasp knowledge and new skills faster than the ordinary person and so forth.

⁠@@zeveria7206no. Thats not what intelligence or a prodigy is. A prodigy is someone with an innste talent for a specific skill mozart was a prodigy. He was writing symphony at like 6 yrs old. But ask him to do some trigonometry and hed be completely lost. Ask him to build a bird house hed be completely lost. Even with direction he wouldnt be any better at it than anyone else. His skills are specifically music. There are many types of intelligence as well. The super common emotional intelligence. You pick up your own subconscious cues and others cues much more easily than other people. What youre describing is closer t our standard bookish intelligence but its still very different for different tasks. Im great at picking up math or science related skills but suck at practical knowledge. I can think quickly to solve a video game puzzle but can’t navigate a surprise social interaction. Definitely different sets of skills for different activities and some are inherently better at it than others but its rare to get someone whos good at everything like you seem to imply. Einstein couldnt even keep his affair secret from his wife. You can be smart at 1 thing and even a genius but suck at other skills. Woudlnt trust einstein to fix my car either even if you gave him some time to figure it out

​@@zeveria7206not exactly. There is a reason talented and prodigy are not synonamous with genius. Einstein is a genius. Madam Cury is a genius, Oppenheimer is a genius etc. None of the characters of naruto come even close. This is why battle IQ is a thing.

​@@zeveria7206the original use of the word genius is almost like how we use the word muse. Now the word has been accepted to mean someone who is extremely intelligent and that's the definition. Keep in mind that the modern use of the word came about by misunderstanding. When reading a word you don't know in context someone who inspires becomes someone who is insanely smart. Truth is, a genius can be a person with 70 IQ if somehow they inspire a lightbulb flash idea. Know what I mean?

I learned the word "gloat" when I read Dune as a boy. Herbert had finished describing the Baron and said he wanted to gloat over the captured doctor. Not knowing the word, I thought gloat meant some kind of disgusting fluid exuding from his body to drip all over the doctor. Until I looked it up in the dictionary. 😁 It made me laugh. I sure do think up silly stuff when I don't know the definition of the real word. 💛

I won't stand for it 😢

He's a naruto tuber at the end of day he needs vids. Wouldn't pin it against nc hammer

He lazy not dumb

Nick part of the reason naruto gets the hate it does

Its not slander.... hes a fun character but hes the biggest fraud to hold the title of genius in literally any popular anime

Not to mention Shikamaru recognized that he would need a team of chunin at minimum to succeed, and still came extremely close to succeeding (no casualties and Naruto almost defeated sasuke) with only genin

At this point, he just yapping to get views lol

dont forget his fight with the chick with the flute, he managed to deduce what commands she was doing buy only looking at her fingers

@@b4g4b3l yeah he has many feats that proves he is a genius, imagine him with uzumaki' or senju's chakra pool

@@b4g4b3l It honestly goes on and on. He also reduced his fight with Hidan to “digging a hole” as if he didn’t figure out the mechanics of Hidan’s ability during their first interaction when Asuma was still alive, and use that knowledge to trick Hidan into stabbing Kakuzu during the re-match. There was a very blatant agenda on display.

He doesn't mean it, it's more of a click bait title lol

​@@WESTSIDE_UCHIHAalmost made me not watch

Rock Lee...is a failure.

but its true

Did they change the title? Because as I read it he doesn't call him dumb, just not THE smartest (although the phrasing is a bit ambiguous). Which given his placement is fair. I wouldn't stand for Shikamaru slander, but I think most of the talking him down here was more explaining why he doesn't get top spot for free no diff, not saying he's anywhere near dumb.

Through age. She was old asf.

She is a war criminal!! Deserves to be jailed! She killed her own grandson over something she herself did repeatedly. So sad! Sasori is the MVP to me.

@@theophilusfoli8684yo wtf did not know that, red sand king was goated

​@@theophilusfoli8684 random but lk

she was kind like a whole ass military carrying that whole village killed an akatsuki with a sakura human puppet and revived the kazekage. pretty is an understatement!

facts i have kakashi above tobirama in overall intellegence. nick doesnt realize you can scale intellegence because there are catagories

I can attest to the accuracy of that concept. As an autistic person I had a lot of trouble with social situations growing up, but the topic of psychology quickly became a deep fascination of mine, and so I paid tons of attention to it and learned anything that came my way. Nowadays I find that I understand these things far better than people who never had my kind of trouble before. Honestly, the culture around communication is horrendously messed up, where all the "normal" people are encouraged to pretend like they understand better than they actually do, and they all think they're the only one pretending and that everyone else actually gets it. But as someone who studied it all and carefully watches for patterns, I see pretty clearly that most people are faking it, and they don't like it when the script they're used to gets shaken up, because they can't adapt on the fly, and they've been taught to feel like admitting any sort of ignorance or confusion is some deep moral failing instead of, y'know, the #1 way to learn and improve. With any luck, maybe someone here will read this and be freed from the toxicity of it all. That would make me happy. As the saying goes, Failure is not the opposite of Success, but the road that leads to it. And that applies almost anywhere, not just social interactions.

@@riluna3695 absolutely, there's also a double whammy there, where the people who are inside the definition of "normal," tend to have a harder time handling anything outside the norm and are thus less accepting of the nuance of the human experience. Whereas people who are marginalized, particularly if their marginalization comes from being neurodivergent, we learn to accept and even fully understand the complexity and range of human experiences, simply because we went our entire lives treated as wrong and abnormal. They may claim themselves to be "realistic" and "mentally healthy" but usually we're the ones who are actually open and accepting to anyone outside the umbrella of normalcy, and are comfortable with the fact that things exist outside our range of knowledge and are comfortable with that.

@@adamusprime403 Absolutely. And it's far more than just "open to things outside normalcy". We're just as open and accepting towards normal things too, just not to the exclusion of other things. All "normal" even means is "the thing that you're most used to". Far too many people see it as something inherently good that needs to be strived for. That's nothing more than maintaining the status quo. And I mean....if the status quo is treating you well, I can see why you'd want to do that. But when it involves hurting countless people, that you've just conveniently chosen not to include in the group of people you value as human beings, so that you can keep living the cushy life you're used to, that is NOT okay. And when we fight back against that harm, what people see (especially when prompted by endless fearmongering) is that "the weird people are coming to take away everything you take for granted because they hate you", rather than seeing the actual reason, that we just want you to move your boot a little bit because we're stuck under it and we'd prefer to stand at your side. No part of any plan I have or would ever support would involve ever taking away any rights from the group in power. It's not about changing who's the oppressed and who's the oppressor, it's about eliminating the entire concept of "the oppressed" as an option. And if that involves taking away a few things that you only get because someone somewhere is abusing people to get it, then I truly do apologise, but it needs to be taken. "Rights", however, never fall into this category, unless you demand the right to cause harm to others. That one, and ONLY that one, will be denied to you.

I think there's some truth to this, but it's more like there's a handful of points you need to "hit" in order to excell in a particularly high degree and not everyone meets them. I'd like to point out that Kakashi already had a fair amount going for him before the sharingan and if you gave any other regular jonin the sharingan, they wouldn't have had the same kind of success. For the sake of argument, let's say there's five factors which are intelligence, creativity, power, resilience, and intuition(Just examples). A lot of people have a couple of these, or at least one but when you know how to apply them all together, it's like braiding loose cords into a rope. It can support more weight and take more damage without breaking. But you have to have a certain amount to meet the threshold. Kakashi started out with 3 or 4 at least while the average jonin has 2-3, enough to excel but not enough to be such a standout. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I perceive it as more of a complex interplay of a wide variety of factors where the average person with or without the power in question doesn't meet the threshold. You have to have someone already on the edge of it to be meaningfully different.

Yea man

That was my first thought too 😂😂

After reading most the comments it’s fair to say the bro should start slowing down a bit because these vids lately are not thought out

Faster, better AND without any clan. Tsunade is Senju and has some Uzumaki in her. Sakura had literally nothing.

She was preforming medical techniques that required full teams by herself while her chakra was constantly being pooled into the byakugo seal…I’d say so

She did do everything Tsunade did while having a teacher showing and teaching exactly how to do everything.

Can’t compare the two. She’s just the next step. Tsunade had to create most of the techniques Sakura just had to learn them

@@nicholasming5976 that’s not even near the truth. Sakura was preforming things tsunade never even thought of. She even admits to Sakura out preforming her in every way

That's less a feat of intelligence and more one of how hard-working and disciplined she is, especially because it's implied that she studied a lot for it. Of course, it can't be done without a fair minimum of intelligence either so it does still count for something.

Kinda had to since she had no way of cheating.

​@marzipancutter8144 but isn't that the point. Her hard work and discipline made her intelligent

Kabuto's feats are almost all plot armor...

He said it's half of it, are you well?

@@genovayork2468 99 > 50

facts and he downplayed kakasji

Yea, the problem with geniuses is they are ALWAYS geniuses, u write a genius guy cuz u come up with a rly cool fight with "genius" strats but after that, everytime they are in the room u meed to make them instantly understand the opponent's plan and counter it

it irked me every time he said it. edo tensai edo tensai edo tensai

Holy shit, I have watched small naruto about 3 times and naruto shippuden another 4 and I have never realized this fact... Wow.

That's exactly what I thought after this list. Thanks

Samw here😂

You're both really dump

It does say that on the thumbnail

Wouldn't he have less of an excuse to be lazy if he was half Uchiha? Even with one Sharingan, he'd be encouraged to go out and copy new Justus.

He'd be worse. he has no chakra as it is. Adding Sharingan to that he would fold faster.

@@morphkaian being an Uchiha, the sharingan wouldn't use as much chakra for him as for other people. he would also probably have more chakra than he currently does

@@thecyberrabbit1440 I guess he's have more as an Uchiha than a Nara but Sauske always was running out too. Poor guy said it in every fight I think lol. Always running on empty

@@morphkaian that's because Sasuke used Chidori, MS, and Rinnegan constantly. Normal sharingan never took him out

empathy isnt really intelligence. its mostly wisdom. IRL, when empathy is displayed in children to a great degree, we say they have wisdom beyond their years. Its a combination of resonating with others experience, willingness to listen & understand, willingness to learn & grow emotionally... Its quite different than intelligence in the general sense... though much more important IMO

Some ? The whole show is basically based on Talk no Jutsu which is now referred in all anime related content.

@@hardikkikani2119 good call. Tbh never connected the dots on that 😂

@@heartofdawnlight yea good point

Naruto is the damn savior of the world because of his intelligence. No one else could've done that

Uh, he did cut off Hidan's head. Well his party members did but still. It's just that kakuzu could reattach it. Against anyone else that would have worked to eliminate at least one akatsuki.

@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat if i notice that a guy i killed is still alive and is asking the other guy to patch him up like that's a thing he can do, I would at least try to keep the head away from him or destroy it. or failing that, try to do it again, but better. or even just bolt, they were way underequipped to deal with them, and telling my boss about two immortal terrorists seems more important than avenging some dead monk

I think it was more a matter of working with what you have. After all, they're testing to see if he could do as a Team leader, not general strength. It's true that it's a failure he never properly improved his Shadow technique, but when he leads a squad of Genin on a given mission long term improvement doesn't matter, the mission has to be fulfilled with the manpower available. And it's not like they expected him to continue slacking off with his training afterwards, which he frankly really shouldn't have done. Also Naruto is himself the diplomatically important nuke. Fighting off the other diplomatically important nukes is literally his job and reason for existing. It's also not something that necessarily makes him suited to lead a team, rather it actively endangers them.

He’s got great anime takes but when it comes to real life his brain really shits the bed