Originally Posted by
Empire
Well I could be saying that, but i'm not. I'm saying genetics/born-genius are always better than hard work in the narutoverse. That was neji's entire point when he and naruto fought. Neji used Lee as an example of why the born-genius was always the winner/stronger person. Its pretty much true for most of the naruto cast. Pretty much every one of the stronger characters comes from a stronger parent and was a prodigy or such as a kid.
Naruto had to train hard? So did everyone else. To my knowledge naruto did not train more than anyone else in the cast outside of being the main character and his training being shown for the 3-4 times he does train. Its different than saying "he didn't have to train hard", its more like "he didn't train more than anyone else" to gain a power 10 times that of theirs.
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Naruto's life trauma is significantly less than most of the main cast. Naruto has had better teachers than most of the cast. Naruto has won several if not the majority of his battles with the direct help of the kyubi-rage.
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Sorry but Neji is right, in the naruto verse born-genius/gentics/prodigy do make the stronger character.
Basically: Kishi built Naruto as an "underdog" and turned him into a "chosen one".