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Originally Posted by Suna no tate

Sure. Chouji. Or Hinata.

And anyone can bark out orders. What matters is the orders have to be solid.

And in my opinion leadership can be taught.

If your talking post-timeskip, (and do re-call, this is a non-manga thread)

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then tell me why we should assume, that in terms of intellgence, neither of them have improved one bit in the past 2.5 years?... afterall, we have not really seen either of them in action... we saw Hinata once, and we saw chouji twice but both times were very brief... 10 to 1 says that both of them have what it takes to lead a team of genin

What's the point of saying leadership can be taught?
it's not like anyone said that you had to be born with leadership qualities... learning to be a good leader comes with disipline and experience... get both and mix in a good amount of intellegence and you'll eventually learn to lead...

Originally Posted by Rein Masamuri

I hate that everyone feels that Naruto sucks.
I honestly think it's the fillers that make people think this.
He follows instructions, even if they take them away from their friends, and he becomes extremely smart strategy wise as he trains.

1) since when does, "not chunin-worthy" equal to "sucks"...
2) most poeple hear don't even consider fillers, they're not canon
3) being a chunin is about leading, not following...
4) A chunin must be able to think for the whole team, not himself... when it comes down to it, naruto mostly improvises and makes up his plans as he goes... unlike shikamaru who stays 10 steps ahead of his enemies... the later is good for teams, the former is only useful for solo fighting... as a leader, Naruto would probably end up making a lot of bad judgement calls when ordering the other genin...