We don’t get the chance to compare father and son very often because they don’t often disagree with one another (although we have seen such fights). Now that we have the chance to compare Naruto Uzumaki with Boruto Uzumaki, the franchise’s titular father and son, we may do so, thanks to Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto universe. You’ve come to the right place if you’ve ever wondered who would win in a battle between Naruto and Boruto.
Naruto still has the upper hand over Boruto right now and could easily take him down in a fight. Currently, Naruto is more powerful, skilled, and experienced than Boruto, but as even Naruto admitted, younger generations often end up surpassing the older ones, Boruto has great potential and will eventually become more powerful than his father.
Now that you know the quick explanation, let’s compare Naruto with Boruto in more detail. You will discover which of the two is stronger and the reasons behind our answer through a number of categories. Additionally, as Boruto is still a character that is still very much in development, there isn’t a whole lot we know about him. For this reason, the paragraphs on him will be shorter because there isn’t a whole lot we know about him right now.
Here’s Naruto Vs. Boruto:
Naruto’s Origin
Naruto is a Konoha ninja who is a member of “Team 7,” which also includes Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and their captain and sensei, Kakashi Hatake. Team 7 is featured in both the manga and the anime. The Nine-Tailed Fox, also known as Kurama, a monster that had previously attacked Konoha, was locked inside of Naruto at first, which caused the villagers of Konoha to hate him.
These emotions led Naruto to want to become the village’s Hokage in order to be acknowledged by him. Later, it is revealed that his mother was Kushina Uzumaki, a ninja who had been sent to Konoha to serve as Kurama’s jinchuriki, and that his dad was the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, who had trapped the Yang portion of Kurama inside his son to prevent the village from being destroyed. He eventually succeeds as the Seventh Hokage of Konoha at the conclusion of his saga.
Boruto’s Origin
Boruto Uzumaki is the son of the main characters, Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga. He originally made an appearance at the ending of the first Naruto series, and he would go on to play a key part in the 2015 film Boruto: Naruto the Movie, where he is polishing his ninja skills in order to defeat his father, the Seventh Hokage. In the anime and manga series Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, he also plays the lead role.
While the anime starts with his early years at the Ninja Academy, when he first meets his future colleagues Sarada Uchiha, Mitsuki, and his master Konohamaru Sarutobi, the manga opens with the narration of the film Boruto. As you can clearly see, there is no question about why Naruto deserves this point. The more significant of the two characters is Naruto, and Boruto still has a long way to go before he can compete with his father.
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Naruto’s Chakra And Physical Powers
As a member of the Uzumaki Clan, Naruto possesses extraordinary power and vitality; he won’t even age as quickly as others. Due to his status as a Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails and Jiraiya’s training, Naruto has a chakra capacity of extraordinary proportions, which, with Jiraiya’s training, makes him four times more powerful than a Jonin-level ninja like Kakashi.
Naruto also has a highly quick regeneration rate (partly due to Kurama’s power), which enables him to heal from small or severe wounds in a matter of seconds or days, as appropriate. To make up for his lack of chakra control, he is able to perform complex jutsus that take a lot of chakra for extended periods of time until finally collapsing. One instance of this occurred during the Fourth Shinobi World War when he used a variety of techniques against formidable opponents, using his clones for a full night and day until the following night of the war.
As Naruto aged, so did his chakra reserves, enabling him to practice senjutsu and enter Sage Mode. According to Karin, Naruto’s chakra is warm, loving, incredibly bright, and filled with a lot of hope because of how nice and honorable he is.
Boruto’s Chakra And Physical Powers
Being an Uzumaki clan descendant, Boruto has a powerful life force that contributes to his long life and amazing endurance. Like his father, Boruto is blessed with a lot of chakra, making him extremely strong to the point where he was able to master three distinct chakra natures at an early age and expand the number of shadow clones he could maintain to four.
Even after most of his chakra had been consumed, thanks to his vast reserves, he was still able to make three Shadow Clones. With just a few days of practice, he could master the Rasengan technique and perform it flawlessly. This is a sign of his highly developed chakra control. Though these two brief paragraphs certainly show that Boruto has greater potential than Naruto ever had, Naruto still outperforms Boruto in every way at this point, both in terms of strength and skill. Although Boruto will surpass his father, we must give Naruto the point for now.
Naruto’s Ninjutsu
Out of all of his skills, Naruto is famous for using Shadow Clones. Even though Naruto initially struggled with the Replication Jutsu, which ironically led to him repeatedly failing tests at the Konoha academy, he swiftly learned to use this technique at the jonin level thanks to the Scroll of Seals. The move would eventually become his first ninja trademark.
Because Naruto is Kurama’s Jinchuriki, the Jutsu makes use of his enormous chakra reserves. More than a thousand clones can be produced by Naruto, and each one of them can contain a significant amount of chakra. As a result, Naruto can practically use his Shadow Clones for anything, including direct combat, executing whole attack and defense techniques when facing his opponents, and even increasing the speed of his ninja training. In addition to the techniques he creates with the Shadow Clones, he has the ability to produce a large number of them to outnumber his opponents. He can even use Transformation Jutsu in combination with the Shadow Clones to transform the looks of his clones and trap his unknowing enemies.
Boruto’s Ninjutsu
Before enrolling in the Academy, Boruto was able to make a number of shadow clones and work with them to coordinate attacks against chûnin or even jonin. At first, Boruto’s clones required his presence for them to function. His father also taught him several sexy tricks. While learning Rasengan, Boruto first failed, but with Konohamaru’s help, he eventually learned to make a scaled-down version with two hands, then grow it to normal size with just one hand. When he arrived in the Ryûchi Cave, he negotiated a deal with Garaga that gave him the power to call upon the giant serpent whenever he pleased.
He could befriend any snake for help because he was related to snakes. He is also capable of cooperative ninjutsu and fûinjutsu, which he can use with other users by his side to limit an opponent’s movements and strengthen an attack. Again, this shows how much potential Boruto has because he was more successful than his dad was at the same age. However, Naruto knows that Boruto still has a lot of work to do.
Naruto’s Senjutsu
Naruto started training with Fukasaku on Mount Myboku to study Senjutsu and how to enter Sage Mode after Jiraiya was killed by Nagato. To do this, Naruto had to improve his capacity to recognize and manage the Natural Energy all around him. Once perfected, Naruto was able to cast the Rasen Shuriken and acquire the Kata of the Toads, a form of Taijutsu that makes use of Natural energy to increase the reach and strength of the practitioner’s attacks. Overall, Naruto’s physical abilities are significantly improved in Sage Mode to the point where he could easily launch beasts much larger than himself, such as the Kurama and Animal Path Giant Rhinoceros.
He even reaches a point where he is powerful enough to demolish a Deva Path Chakra Receiver. In the anime, he even used his Kata of the Toads to destroy the Nine Tails’ cloak, which belonged to Naruto Clone Version Two. Their increased speed allows them to go a great distance in a short amount of time, as seen by the fact that they were able to stop the Asura Path, who was attacking Tsunade with his chakra boots, and create a downward Rasengan before she can even react. His endurance also improved, to the point that he could withstand a fall onto stone spikes or the force of the Giant Rhino’s attack.
Boruto’s Dōjutsu
With the help of a prophetic dream from Toneri Otsutsuki and the emergence of Nue, Boruto started subconsciously activating the Jôgan in his right eye when he was eight years old. Since it was dormant for a considerable amount of time prior to encountering Momoshiki Otsutsuki, the eye was initially only innately activated during times of extreme threat. He was eventually able to activate it of his own will when he was 16 years old.
He can detect things that are typically invisible to the naked eye thanks to this Dôjutsu. Boruto can sense visible changes in his chakra and follow a target through it, thanks to his ability to perceive chakra flow. In addition, he has the ability to see beyond the invisible barriers that separate the dimensions and the chakra’s major organs and points. We had to give Boruto a point as well because the Jogan is incredibly strong and is his signature technique—something that even Naruto has never learned. However, Naruto also deserved a point because of his knowledge and proficiency with his techniques.
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Naruto’s Intelligence
Naruto is a physical learner, as has been noted throughout the series; hence he gains knowledge from the action rather than by thinking about it. His teachers took advantage of his learning approach. For example, Kakashi sped the Nature Transformation training by using Naruto’s shadow clones, while Fukasaku switched to Sage Mode practice after the theory session failed. In addition, Naruto can be said to have teaching potential because Konohamaru Sarutobi was able to learn his Jutsu, including Shadow Clone, Sexy Jutsu, and Rasengan.
Boruto’s Intelligence
Boruto is a very observant person who is excellent at reading situations and coping with them, despite the fact that he is typically careless to the point of being viewed as lazy. Despite having a similar appearance to his father, he shows impressive intelligence when using the Multi-Cloning technique for complex plans, but because he is only limited to four clones, he does so more subtly.
Although he prefers a more direct style of fighting overall, he can adapt to a variety of complex feints and deceptions, which helped him defeat Iwabee and even opponents like Momoshiki. Additionally, he learns to take advantage of the flaws and vulnerabilities—both his own and those of his adversaries—that lie at the core of his fights. He proved to be completely capable of resolving complex issues using his own methods.
Boruto is skilled at maximizing the skills of his teammates by using their abilities in the creation of plans. Even Ao, a well-known Jonin and seasoned warrior from the village of Kiri, who possessed decades of experience and strong cybernetic weaponry, was tricked and ultimately defeated by him through the use of cleverness in battle. Although intelligence isn’t exactly his strong suit, Naruto is far from being a stupid person. As a result, most characters would score a point against him in this category, and Boruto’s point serves as evidence for that claim.
Who Is Stronger Between Naruto And Boruto?
Finally, we come to the analysis, which is both the most significant and captivating part of our article. Here, we’ll use what we’ve learned about these two characters to examine how these facts might (or might not) support them in a fight. Let’s move on. The evidence currently points firmly in Naruto’s favor, but as the above-described fight shows, the answer was clear even with such a thorough analysis. In the entire franchise, Naruto is currently the most powerful character. He is extremely skilled, possesses great power, and has nearly unequaled experience. No matter how good Boruto is, he just cannot compete with his father since he is not at his level, Yet.
However, the important word here is “yet.” By acknowledging that new generations would always outperform the previous ones, Naruto also hinted that Boruto would eventually surpass him. Additionally, as we’ve seen, Boruto has access to skills and know-how that do beyond those of Naruto, but not just now. Without a doubt, Boruto will one day surpass all other fighters in the Shinobi world, but we’ll have to wait a while for that to happen. Because of this, Naruto comes out on top in this fight.
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