Foreword

"Naruto" seems to be a story about Uzumaki Naruto's growth into Hokage through hard work, but it actually contains side plots of many characters: Sasuke's road to revenge, Xiao Sakura's love history and Shikamaru's free life. Rock Lee also has some of his own stories, and he wants to prove through his own efforts that he can become a great ninja without using ninjutsu.

However, Xiao Li failed. As the plot was discovered, Xiao Li was gradually marginalized. He even had no bright performance during the Ninja World War. Why is this? Let’s start with Xiao Li’s background.

Rock Lee: He is a member of the third team along with Hyuga Neji and Tenten ***. He studied under Metkai. Because he couldn't use ninjutsu, with the encouragement of his teacher, he decided to become a great taijutsu ninja.

1. The once dazzling Xiao Li

There are four people Xiao Li wants to challenge the most: Uzumaki Naruto (Jinchuriki, son of the Hokage), Uchiha Sasuke (the queen of a famous family, Blood Successor Limit), Gaara (Jinchūriki, Kazekage's son), Hyuga Neji (Famous Family Queen, Blood Successor Limit). Later, except for Ningji who died in the battle, everyone else became the "leader" of the ninja world. Xiao Li's achievements have fallen far behind those he once wanted to surpass. So what is the reason? I think it's certainly not due to lack of effort or lack of talent.

Xiao Li also had his moments of "cheating". Before the battle for Sasuke, he was once considered the strongest genin. "Instantly killing" Sasuke, "tying" Gaara, Naruto was so weak that he couldn't even touch Xiao Li's heels. During this period, Xiao Li relied on hard work to gain a place in Konoha.

Xiao Li's "death" came after defeating Kimimaro. The "death" here does not refer to real death, but after defeating Kimimaro, Xiao Li's efforts can no longer compete with the pride of blood theory represented by Naruto, and he finally lost to fate.

2. The reason for Xiao Li’s failure

The reason for Xiao Li’s failure is very vague. Maybe he doesn’t know where he is compared with the proud people. This article mainly compares Xiao Li and the proud ones, and analyzes the reasons for his failure. I think there are the following three points:

Talent:

Xiao Li is not born with the ability to use ninjutsu. . In the later stages of the manga, many ninjas' ultimate moves were made at random, such as the Earth Blast Star and Amaterasu Tsukuyomi. Ninjas with these abilities can crush others at the same level. However, Xiao Li has no special skills of his own, and the Eight Gate Dunjia is too damaging to the body and cannot be used frequently, so Xiao Li has a big disadvantage in terms of talent.

Trained under:

Metkai is a good ninja, but not a good teacher. Naruto's teacher is Jiraiya, and Sasuke's teacher is Orochimaru. Both teachers teach by words and deeds, and are good at teaching, but Metkai will only ask Xiao Li to do "20,000 push-ups and 10,000 sit-ups." Although this training method will make the body stronger, it is too ordinary and feels like getting half the result with twice the effort.

Lineage:

Compared to the Four Proud Sons, Xiao Li was born in an ordinary family, and the comics did not even introduce him too much. So we don’t know who Xiao Li’s father and mother are. As for the four Narasana and Nin, all of them were born into noble families, the resources and connections used for training are simply inexhaustible. In the later stages of the manga, the skills and ninjutsu of these four are unique. No matter how hard Xiao Li tries, he will never be able to possess the Demonic Fox Coat, Mangekyō Sharingan, Absolute Defense, and Byakugan Soft Fist.

In fact, in the anime, Xiao Li has a unique ability "Drunken Master". The first time he used it, he got a very good effect, and this ability is also innate to Xiao Li. If the cartoon We can focus on the description of "Drunken Master", and I believe that Xiao Li's achievements will be more than that. Unfortunately, Mr. Kishimoto used this feature as a punchline, and gradually weakened this setting in the later period.

3. Summary

Edison famously said: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

However, many people do not know that the latter sentence is: the one percent of inspiration is the most important, even more important than the ninety-nine percent of sweat.

To put it another way: Xiao Li put in 99% of his efforts, but he lacked the 1% of "bloodline", which caused him to lag far behind the "Narutos" of the same period. . And can Metkay, who "almost kicked out the finale with one kick," break the lineage theory?

Don’t forget, Kai’s father, Matt Dai, taught Bamen Dunjia. If he didn’t have his father, he would probably be ordinary. To put it bluntly, the characters of “Weekly Shōnen Jump” will eventually You have to fight dad!

Text: Youyou Animation Fungus

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