Quote:Well, Gai's canon team is pretty much tank+spotter/scrapper+sniper, or at least the ninja world equivalent of a sniper. Lee is still a close-range tank with speed to spare, Naruto is medium to close range, mostly because he can pop cloines in closer than he is, so that means she'd have to have some kind of long range ability to close that gap in thier pattern. I still like the idea of a ninja archer, using chakra threads to guide the arrows after firing. With Maito family strength training... eep. I'm seeing a pickup truck leaf spring with a handgrip and the pulley system of a compound bow, able to shoot through two trees without significant loss of power.
Humm ... would the fact that Lee specializes in taijutsu and Naruto in ninjutsu mean that Rikou's the token genjutsu specialist? Balance, y'know?
Unfortunately, that doesn't really fit with her in my mind, and comes off as too close to just Tenten in a costume. Either genjutsu or a long-range ninjutsu, then - perhaps Keiunko was originally from the Mist, and taught her some suiton jutsu? The ability to raise a fog and keep enemy long range types from targeting her close-fighter team mates, as well as being a basis for a whiteout sensory deprivation genjutsu (ooh, that WORKS - she makes a bit of a mist, enough to feel damp on the skin and in the nose, and a genjutsu of an impenetrable pea souper, so her teammates can see well enoguh to target and distinguish each other by their bright oufits, but the enemy can't!) and a lesser version of water-blast than the Seiryuudon.
Of course, if Naruto is going to be the ninjutsu specialist of the team but go a year before learning the kage bunshin, he's got to have a new one, too, probably medium-to-short range since (like I said last time) that seems to be where he likes to fight. A fire jutsu would be most obvious, if he's to be The Leaf's Blazing Orange Wildfire... Maybe the basic Katon flamethrower that Jiraya used to ignite Gamabunta's oil when they were fighting Lizardlips and Manda in the Tsunade arc?
ETA: That would make for a possible powerup to the rasengan without just making it bigger but less focussed like the manga oodama rasengan - form a rasengan, then do the one-hand seal for Katon and spit fire into it.
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