Uhhhh, you're obviously overrating the toad and underrating the slug. Until now, her defensive capabilities have been quite amazing. She seems to have the best defense out of the summons.
Another thing Iove is how one tries to downplay acid... that big ass slug shooting acid isn't something that should be overlooked in the slightest and its not even hinted that she needs her summoners chakra to even shoot it. Another thing. How do you think the toad or the snake gets on the field? And what do they do when theyre summoned? They ALL act as a support for their summoner. Defensively, offensively. It doesn't matter.
The damn snake evaded being constricted to death by Manda. I bet the frog couldn't weasel out of that. It took on an Almighty Push and suffered no damages. Bet the toad and the snake could fail there. She has her pros and cons just like the damn snake and toad.
The only features she showed off how this is underrated when i didnt underated any of her defensive capabilities.
Just look at Jiraiya/Tsunade vs Orochimaru fight which shows perfectly what she does in a fight, she's a support and she supported Jiraiya there.
Didnt even bring up this you're making this assumption by yourself.
The only abilities that she required a summoner was remote healing and turning into liquid which heals, and the next attaching her to other people to make use of a shield but also waste chakra from the summoner, Tsunade's jutsu at Pain's arc.
This not downplaying, overrated is ppl saying "wow she's invencible and so on.." i'm being realistic, she's not a summon like the others.
Second Last bolded.
Really???
Pros and cons, Katuyu has no offensive capabilities, and you say "offensive/defensive" doesnt matter, aside from the fact that thanks to Gamakichi, Naruto found out Obito's weakness using his own senjutsu without the summoner chakra.
Katsuyu took the damage of the shinra tensei but at the expense of Tsunade's chakra, because she had to protect the villagers.
In other words, Gamakichi is a better summon than Katsuyu when fighting against an opponent(he cant heal neither protect obviously), Katsuyu is a supporter but relies on the summoner chakra to heal(she doesnt use her own chakra to heal) and do most of her job, which makes her on a different level of summon, she's not like Manda or Gamakichi she's rather an amplifier to medical ninja techniques, she's not the type of summon which is used to be fighting but rather to protect and offer medical assistence.
She's more like an extension to medical ninja techniques than a proper summon.
Pain's arc and Jiraiya/Tsunade fight against Orochimaru and this arc shows it all.
and this is not underating.
Edited by Dαrkrєrsŧ, 20 October 2013 - 04:36 PM.