Kakashi Was The WORST Sensei in Naruto!

Kakashi is by far one of the most beloved characters in the entirety of the Naruto Universe consistently when it comes down to popularity polls Kakashi is in the top three and this makes sense he's sexy he's got silver hair one of his eyes is covered and if Gojo's popularity has shown us anything that is a combination for Success not to mention he's got a cool and Steely demeanor he's always kind of laid back he casually reads softcore porn into boot he's got a really cool set of moves he's able to copy every single Jutsu he knows thousands of jutsus he's one of the strongest joning we've ever seen and eventually he becomes the Hokage there is so much to love about Kakashi it actually just realizing this is a complete coincidence I did not know I was filming this video today I'm wearing my Kakashi shirt but I have this Myriad of things to love about Kakashi there's some things about him that are hard to love and the most notable of these things is his tenure as a sunset do while Kakashi might be cool and laid back and Powerful there's one thing he wasn't great at and that was teaching see what many people remember the pre-shippuden days Fawn Lee because of Team seven all being together training hanging out the cool dynamic between all of the characters once you go back to the pre-shaped and especially the pre-tuning exam arcs you realize Kakashi might be the worst sensei in the entirety of Naruto I'm not even talking just within Kona law I'm not even talking just within Kakashi's generation he might be straight up the worst Sensei now I know what you're saying but team seven are the strongest team in history Sakura Sasuke and Naruto are all high Hokage Level Threats and in that regard you're absolutely right even Kakashi himself is a mid to high Hokage level threat still none of that has anything to do with Kakashi outside of him being a mid to high level Hokage threat because not only did Kakashi teach team seven next to nothing it seems as though he was almost actively trying to make sure that their potential would be wasted Kakashi is the only sensei in the history of all of the sensei in Naruto to have his entire team go to other sensei in fact he's the only person from his generation and probably other generations to have any of his students go to other Sensei as Naruto went to Jiraiya Sasuke went to Orochimaru in Sakura went to Tsunade in the course of a little under a year Kakashi lost all three of his Guinea and not only did his genin go to be taught by other people but one of his genin left the village the only named ninja of this generation who left konawa so how did Kakashi fail as a Sensei and more importantly why did he fail as a sunset well we're gonna answer all those questions and more today but first guys please for me like this video subscribe to the page hit that Noti button if you like me taking introspective looks at anime and telling you your favorite characters were probably kind of stupid you're gonna love my 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days in their training regiments to make sure that the other getting were still learning Osama had Shikamaru guy had Lee kernai had Hinata and Kakashi had Sasuke now the reason that Kakashi was probably so interested in Sasuke is because he saw a lot of himself in Sasuke Sasuke was the last standing Uchiha and Kakashi was the only person in the village with a Sharingan and therefore Kakashi was really the only suitable person to teach Sasuke how to use the Sharingan in the first place not to mention that Sasuke had dealed with an immeasurable amount of loss and while technically Sasuke had lost more people in his life than Kakashi unlike a sheer numbers basis Kakashi had also lost everybody in his life that was ever important to it and therefore Kakashi better than anybody in the village could understand the hatred and the isolation that bubbled within Sasuke and therefore Kakashi taking more interest than Sasuke than Naruto and Sakura isn't particularly the worst thing he could have done as Sasuke probably needed more working than either Naruto or Sakura he was still in charge of a three-man team and what's important when teaching a three-man team is making sure all of them are adequately equipped to battle in a real life circumstance a real life circumstance that's modeled in the tuning exam as the tuning exam was created by tobarama to simulate the circumstances of War as Toby Rama wanted to make sure that children weren't being sent out to war before they were ready and if you couldn't pass the tuning exams then you definitely shouldn't be on the battlefield and therefore even though taking a vested interest in Sasuke's growth wasn't the worst thing Kakashi could have done he simultaneously should have found at least a little bit of time for either Naruto or especially Sakura see Sasuke coming out of the Shinobi Academy was probably the strongest ninja in his class even without the showering God back to the sharing gone in there and Sasuke is definitely top one or top two in terms of people he needed to prep for the tuning exam Sasuke was on the bottom of the list who truly needed to be prepped for the tuning exams were both Naruto and Sakura see as it stood Naruto stood a zero percent chance at passing the written part of the tuning exam he had barely made it through the Shinobi Academy however Kakashi goes through absolutely no training with Naruto to make sure he will pass this exam and if it weren't for the fact that the exam was based entirely on cheating and not even actual practical knowledge Naruto would not have passed Sakura however was the other side of the same coin Sakura was obviously going to pass the written exam she did very well in the Shinobi Academy but there was not a singular chance that Sakura was gonna defeat anybody in one-on-one combat because Sakura was only able to wield the techniques of the Shinobi Academy she couldn't even create a shadow Club going into the tuning exam the only technique she knew was the Clone technique which creates a non-physical clone it's what they need to do to pass through the Shinobi Academy and yet he sent Sakura into the tuning exams with only the knowledge she acquired from the Shinobi Academy meaning what under Kakashi's tutelage she learned nothing the only thing Kakashi ever taught team seven was teamwork through the Bell test and the story that those who don't help their friends are worse than scum and tree climbing something they probably should have learned in the Shinobi Academy Kakashi didn't even teach them water walking now mind you this is Kakashi the copy ninja a man with thousands of jutsus under his belt he could have very easily and I mean very easily not only deduce the elemental chakra Natures of both Sakura Naruto and Sasuke he could have taught them jutsus within their Elemental chakra releases ensuring within the Tune-in exams that they would have more than kunai and fake clones because genuinely what did Kakashi teach Naruto before he went into the tuning exam we know that Naruto was able to pull off multi-shadow clone technique before he was even again which means long before he ever met Kakashi in the first place and he had exactly the same moveset heading into the tuning exams and because of this heading into the tuning exams team seven was drastically underprepared you could say that Naruto strengthened the tuning exams was medium to high was Sasuke's ability being high once again the Tune-in exams are built around a three-man team and Sakura's skill was low to very low she was for all intents and purposes an anchor on Naruto and Sasuke bringing them a step down in terms of skill I mean yes she had intellect yes she had some basic trap making ability and yes she had iron with but unfortunately that only gets you so far and therefore in one of the most dangerous things these genin would ever undertake she was an absolute liability and genuinely you can't even falter for that because Kakashi not taking the time to train Sakura is doubly bad when you consider the fact that she is one of only two of the original konohod 12 that doesn't hail from a ninja family every other member of the Kona hot 12 comes from a ninja family who taught them techniques when they were young Shikamaru comes from the Nara they had Shadow technique Koji comes from the akamichi who had partial expansion Eno came from the yamanaka who had the Mind transfer technique Hinata and Neji came from the hyuga and had biakugod Kiba came from the inazuka and had a ninja Hound Shino came from the abarama it might have been stronger than Sasuke in the tuning exam the only other person who didn't come from a ninja family was 10 10. and you know what Micah did upon receiving 1010 made her a master in kenjutsu listen 1010 strength gets memed all of the time and justifiably she's probably the weakest out of the konoha 13 with the only person being close to her being Eno but it doesn't mean that might guy didn't try really hard with her my guy who's also a kenjutsu master mind you identified in this girl no special trait and therefore decided to make her a kenjutsu master he found that she was particularly talented in sealing and unsealing items and decided to train her in not only perfect control over these weapons in terms of of accuracy but also train her in how many she could unleash at once getting 10 10 substantially more ready for the tuning exams than Sakura ever was I mean yeah 1010 got a free chiropractic appointment from tamari but tamari was one of the strongest people in pre-shapuden Era what makes all of this even worse is the fact that Kakashi knew that Sakura had insane chakra control it was from Kakashi that we learned that Sakura was a chakra-controlled genius and therefore she had an incredible chance at being again Jutsu genius and while yes we don't see Kakashi use genjutsu ever I don't think maybe once or twice he was a wielder of the Sharingan which has intrinsic genjutsu abilities and considering the fact that Kakashi has copied thousands of jutsus a couple of which are probably genjutsu there is no reason the Kakashi couldn't have taught Sakura a couple of basic genjutsu before the tuning exams or ever for that matter and even if he wasn't well suited to teaching her genjutsu there was quite literally one of the strongest genjutsu specialists in the entire world with non-sharangan-based genjutsu in kuranai in the village he could have pointed her in her direction or he could have realized that the precise tracker control that she had would be able to boost her strength to a superhuman Lev and could have focused on training in taijutsu with her or could have sent her to train with my guy in taijutsu but he did none of this what he did instead was abandon her for a month when Kakashi went to go train with Sasuke for a month to make sure he could channel the Chidori perfectly he didn't leave Sakura with anybody to train with he didn't give her a regiment of training he just said peace see you in a month oh but guaranteeing that any progress she might have been making would stagney immediately meanwhile Kakashi knows thousands of jutsus yet the only ones he ever taught the members of Team seven were Chidori and applying Wynn's nature to a Rasengan to make a version of the Ross and shuriken and that was in Shippuden I understand the Kakashi's strongest move was his rikiri and therefore he would want to impart that move to Sasuke I could say the fact that in Priest should put an era the raikiri used so much chakra that even Kakashi could only pull it off what three times a day maybe four he decided to teach that Jutsu to a child struggling to control his own Sharingan and wasting a ton of his chakra in the maintenance of said Sharingan there's other lightning release moves outside of Chidori and raikiri sure you can teach Sasuke Chidori but what if hypothetically he doesn't have enough chakra to pull it off maybe we sprinkle in a couple of easier lightning moves or maybe something with range or maybe something that doesn't require the activation of the sharing gone Sasuke can barely control and not to mention there's no way he would have been able to teach Naruto to apply wind to his Rasengan without Yamato being there to suppress Naruto's nine tails chakra and don't even get me started on the fact that awesome was actually probably more instrumental in Naruto's growth as it pertains to wind Elemental release then Kakashi was in the first place but I know what you're saying you're saying Nick every single Sensei only focused on one of their students and like I stated earlier yes well obviously every Sensei had favorites every other Sensei took time out of their day to make sure that they insured every single one in their three-man teams was growing either emotionally physically or jutsu-wise yes obviously guy spent the majority of his time with Lee that's because arguably Lee was his biggest project and guy a lot like how Kakashi saw a lot of himself in Sasuke saw a lot of himself in league but the difference between guy and Kakashi here is that Lee started at zero Sasuke started at 85. and Gara was a hundred in one year yes one year Mike guy got rockly from zero to 98 in one year Kakashi got Sasuke from 85 to 97. I personally think if Sasuke and Rock Lee had squared up pre-shapoon that Rockley would have rocked his so not only did my guy put in substantially more work for Rock Lee but like we've already touched on previously in this video he also taught 10 10 important ways to use her power and yeah she didn't end up powerful but honestly that was never really her Destiny and yeah ability wise he probably didn't help Neji all that much but he didn't know gentle fist or have a biakugan for that matter where my guy did help Neji is the same way that Rock Lee helps Neji is the acknowledgment of the fact that they were born with nothing but achieved everything and therefore my guy was a big step in neji's emotional journey and well obviously osama's favorite was Shikamaru Asama more than anybody instilled a huge amount of teamwork into ineshikacho it was his responsibility he taught them formations ways to bounce their powers off of each other always to work together he did service to a 15 generation long formation of the Ina she could show and more than that he was probably closer to his students than any other Sensei as he taught shikamara to overcome his laziness and actually became a father figure to him he taught choji to be more assertive and also became a father figure to him and he taught Eno to take charge and use her intelligence in her abilities in a way that makes sense for her to not try and follow after somebody else's path now she is one of the most important people in Kona law and Karen I who was handed one of the weirdest teams in Naruto's history as a genjutsu master mind you and Christina's hand to hand kiba's speed and Hinata's confidence ensuring that Hinata would be able to use her 64 Palm techniques to the highest level possible and I'd like to reiterate that Kakashi abandoned Sakura but here's the thing even while favoring Sasuke and spending an entire month with him he still lost it kashilik have already stated should understand Sasuke's pain more than anything there is nobody on Earth who should be able to relate to Sasuke as much as Kakashi and therefore there is no nobody else on Earth who should been able to quell the anger and confusion of a Lost Child more than Kakashi but even after identifying a lot of himself and Sasuke and even going so far as to tell Sasuke that they come from similar circumstances with the incredibly iconic line everybody you're talking about is already dead Akashi failed to get to Sasuke instead leaning towards simply teaching him the Chidori and not focusing on what was going on in here see the signs that Sasuke was going bad were very clear he tried to hit Naruto with the Chidori on top of a hospital Kakashi had to tie him to a tree Once to have that legendary conversation but instead of sitting down with Sasuke and saying I understand how you feel or taking time to be possibly a parental figure to Sasuke he just kind of kept him at arm's length and therefore he was the only person from his era to lose a ninja and Sasuke was the only ninja from kodua that we know of that abandoned The Village meaning that all of the time that he had spent with Sasuke was objectively wasted meaning he had stunted the growth of both Naruto and Sakura for nothing and it's safe to say that without Sharia and Tsunade stepping in both Naruto and Sakura wouldn't been even one tenth as powerful as they are now without Tsunade stepping into Sakura's life who knows what kind of ninja she would have become she probably would be dead in Naruto without the parental figure of Jiraiya stepping into his life probably would have been let down the wrong path let me think about in Naruto's life he's had three teachers aruka Kakashi jiraya two of those Sensei he looked at like paternal figures he loved Uriah like a father to the point where his death absolutely devastated him he probably would have asked dry to walk him down the aisle at his marriage if he was still alive but instead he asked daruka but like if aruca just caught some chakra illness and kicked the bucket I don't think he would have asked Akashi I think he probably would have brought the ramen guy taiuchi I'm better than that so not only did Kakashi fail to teach Naruto and Sakura any meaningful Jutsu he also failed to reach them emotionally and even though he did teach Sasuke the Jutsu he would use for the rest of his life he also failed to reach him emotionally why was Kakashi such a bad Sensei I mean we've answered the how but now why well objectively he was handed a really bad hand he was given the last dude shiha the demon fox in a no-name ninja girl but his hand wasn't any worse than people like guys guy was handed a boy with only the ability to use taijutsu the son of a murdered father who hails from the side part of a family who's been disrespected for Generations who holds just as much familial trauma and hatred as Sasuke and a no-named ninja girl and guy took time to not only be a part of every single one of their lives but also stray them away from Darkness while all the while teaching them to be strong and upright Joni well I guess only two of them made joning I can't even necessarily blame Kakashi for how bad of a Sensei he was objectively Kakashi never should have been teaching genin in the first place see we all know that prior to him getting team seven the Kakashi have been given numerous teams of gaining that he had all failed now we know because of how the Bell test works this is because these teams couldn't work together however after filling the Bell test Kakashi could have just imparted a helpful message to these getting moved them along in their teamwork Journey but instead of that Kakashi goes one step further and basically just Blacklist these kids from ever becoming ninjas now the reason he did this wasn't because he believed these kids could never learn the power of teamwork but because he was still carrying a lot of his trauma with him we know that pre Shippuden Kakashi didn't use his Ms because it reminded him of murdering red and the reason he didn't want these getting to move forward with their ninja careers is because he didn't want them to die did Kakashi had seen firsthand what war looks like for organic or even a chunee even though Rin and Obito were tuning when they died it wasn't enough see Kakashi even when he was with Team seven still had a lot of personal work to do we know that after the death of rain he was placed in the ambo specifically by Minato who believed that placing him the Ambu would be the best thing for Kakashi as he realized that Kakashi needed to be separated from regular people who called him a friend killer and that possibly he would find Solace amongst the Ambu however as an Ambu member technically one of his roles was to protect the Hokage but the role that was assigned to him was actually to protect his pregnant wife kushna however even though it was his role to protect kushna on the night of Naruto's birth he couldn't do that he was barred from helping Minato and kushna in their battle but he was in indanza and because of this when he heard the news that both Minato and kushna had died in this battle he blamed himself and since he was already in the ambo at this point this was his final straw he threw away whatever semblances of humanity he had left and just became a Human Weapon a Human Weapon who would dispatch of any enemies of the leaf no questions asked in fact his propensity for killing was so great that Danza recruited him to the root and it wasn't until Yamato joined the route and was sent to kill Heroes and Kakashi realized he needed to save Yamato from Danza and it's at this point that Harrison pulled them both out of the Ambu essentially saved Kakashi and Yamato's lives but now here Zin was left with two Joni without kids who weren't in the Ambu and what do you do with joning without kids well you make him in charge of the Getty for some reason after you have a kid you can no longer get getting teams it's like not a rule but we've never seen a person with a kid lead getting but even though Kakashi would realize that the ways of the Ambu and the root were technically wrong and they tried to save Yamato from that system this doesn't mean he had unpacked the trauma he had been through with Obito and or even from his father for that matter and yet he was thrown directly into training again and if he's getting went out on missions and died that would have been on him and therefore not until he was handed a crop of students that reminded him of himself that he began to believe that he could teach these kids but once again to assume that Kakashi even had the emotional bandwidth to reach out to these kids when he himself was kind of lost in the sauce of his own emotions is a lot to ask but is this trauma that he was carrying around with him an excuse for being such a bad sensei not really if you truly saw a lot of himself in Sasuke and he was worried about Sasuke turning into the Human Weapon that he was in the Ambu he should have tried harder he actually could have helped himself in his own self-reflective journey of emotions by helping Sasuke by guiding Sasuke away from the bad decisions that he made in the early parts of his life he probably could have reflected on things he could do in the modern day to help himself if he had just put more effort into making sure Sasuke was a better person and not just a more dangerous one he probably would have saved him and not only would he have saved Sasuke he probably would have began his journey of healing a lot sooner and if he was afraid of the Kenny and he was teaching dying he should have prepared them better like if you're afraid of your getting being caught in a situation that signals death for them make sure they're prepared with Jutsu or combat knowledge that'll get them out of that situation and yet he did neither of these things sigai also lost his father but guy learned a lesson from it and in part of the lesson of his father's death onto Rockley in the rest of Team seven that overwhelming power should only ever be used to protect to those you love and that lesson while it technically wasn't something that Neji or 1010 could ever use because they never had overwhelming power it's something that Rock Lee lives by to this day well obviously Kakashi was able to impart the message that those who abandoned their friends are worse than scum something that Naruto lived by forever it's something that Sasuke warmed up to eventually simply imparting the idea of not abandoning your friends isn't enough when you're concerned about letting the children you're raising die so was Kakashi given a bad hand yes absolutely but not worse than other hands given out to other ninjas was it a responsible choice for Kakashi to be teaching getting in the first place probably not but does that excuse all the missteps and straight of neglect he had for team seven now Akashi while an incredible character was a bad Sensei and that's just the reality of the situation well that doesn't make him a bad person he was an incredible Hokage I just think at the current moment that he was given team seven he wasn't prepared to lead them because that every single member of Team seven had to go elsewhere to learn the most important abilities so thank God for the legendary signing because Kakashi sure wasn't getting the job done what do you guys think do you guys think Kakashi was a good Sensei tell me in the comments below why you guys are down there please for me like this video subscribe to the page and hit that note about you know Kakashi still doesn't have kids I would love to see him take on some organic [Music] mama [Music] everybody [Music]

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Length: 24min 32sec (1472 seconds)

Published: Fri May 19 2023