Board Thread:Hints and Tips by the Mizukage!/@comment-3030647-20150117022856

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Hey everyone! It’s your favourite admin (probably not) Ashy again! I know I’ve been gone for ages and this thread is sorely overdue but, hey, stuff happens right? Well now I’m back in the game and I’m really hoping to target a select few users and drawing out their creative talents so that the standard of this wiki is not compromised; obviously, I’m not giving any names in this regard.

Appropriateness of Technique?
Yes, appropriateness of technique. It is now a term I am using to define the appropriateness of a technique’s creation and/or addition to a character. Whether that be a basic technique such as the Body Replacement Technique to the advanced and fabled Truth-Seeking Balls; it really doesn’t matter. What matters is the appropriateness of it. All characters are, normally, designed in a way so that they specialize in certain skills.

Let’s take a few very notable canon examples of varying power levels and skillsets:
 * Naruto Uzumaki (Part 1): Starting off the bat with the titular character because, might as well. The specific Naruto I’m referring to is the Genin Naruto in Part 1. Why? Because we might as well start from the bottom. Anyways, as you all probably know, Naruto specialized in only two real skill-sets. Ninjutsu-wise he was proficient in the Shadow Clone Technique and Rasengan and he normally accompanied this with Taijutsu and, to some extent, Shurikenjutsu and other tools. As you can see, even though Naruto obviously had a considerable amount of chakra and the nine-tailed influence he specialized in only a few things because, as feasibility dictates, that’s all he could specialize in! Now, I know that’s not a very strong example given the majority of the users (including me) having a tendency to write stronger and more fleshed out characters. So, let’s move onto a Chūnin-ranked Shinobi.
 *  (Part 1 Post-Exams): As you all remember from Part 1, I’m sure; Shikamaru was the first of our major cast of characters to be promoted into Chūnin. But does he excel at every skill-set imaginable to be able to be promoted? Not bloody likely. Let’s go into depth with his skill-set and try to pry out how he was promoted, right? So firstly, we see that Shikamaru doesn’t exactly have any skill in Nature Transformation; expected of a Genin. In addition, his physical prowess isn’t astounding by any margin. However, what make Shikamaru stand out are his Nara Clan Techniques and his phenomenal intelligence and perception. Despite only possessing one or two techniques at the time, he managed to defeat Temari even though her long-distance Wind Release Nature Transformation was far greater than what an ordinary Genin would have been able to pull-off. This, in tandem with his equipment, allowed him to be promoted to a Chunin despite the plethora of other participants in the exam, among those being the prodigious Neji Hyūga and Sasuke Uchiha. However, even now, this doesn’t exactly relate to a lot of us simply because the scales of our characters are a lot higher. So, let’s move onto the next rank, Tokubetsu Jōnin.
 * : Probably the most notable example of a Tokubetsu Jōnin despite having died early on (except for Ebisu, though he doesn’t have much of a combat presence). In any case, for those who don’t remember, Tokubetsu Jōnin are individuals who abide by the term specialization most notably in the canon, as they are individuals who possess Jōnin-level skill in one area, which may be higher than the average Jōnin’s skill in that particular area. Hayate, as the standard for his rank, specialized primarily in Kenjutsu, while also possessing a few other, Chūnin-ranked skills such as his stealth techniques and his Taijutsu. Given that he was capable of causing someone like to be in admiration of his skills, it speaks volumes for the nature of a Tokubetsu Jōnin. And, in my honest opinion, people should aim to make characters of this rank more often given the young ages some people put for their characters (although, understandably, canon influences them to do so).
 * : Hooray for the most notable Jōnin in all time!
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