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Gai should be able to use gates, maybe start at 7. That way, if Kakashi decides to doton, he can power down and not hurt himself.
Going 8 gates is assured death and Kakashi can easily escape him.
Genius-24, Gai would indeed close the Gates if he realised that Kakashi was not around. Chances are Kakashi would leave something like a mizu bunshin, however, and Gai being Gai would throw some of his firepower at it. Problem is that after he opens the Gates, attacks futilely and closes them, he's probably used proportionately more of his chakra than Kakashi has of his.
Running around turning on and off a high number of Gates is a death sentence for Gai. Which is why the Gai I imagine isn't using more than three Gates, at least not until very late in the game ? when he'd step up to no higher than five.
Dochu Eigyo was done by rain nins(oboro's team) where they were able to transfer body w.o exploiting ground as if they are transparent.You say "tunnels have doors", but Kakashi knows doton: dochu eigyō. He can phase his body through earth effortlessly, as he does when he performs doton: shinju zanshū (appears from underground to grab the target's leg). He doesn't tunnel. Doton: dochu eigyō is sick and pure taijutsu fighters like Gai have no reply to it.
I don't see hachimon really having maximum effectiveness against Kakashi, and Eight Gates would be little more than Five in effectiveness. At some point it's less about whether Gai is far faster, and more about whether Gai can find Kakashi. Location is unspecified so I'm assuming the most general location, which usually in this series involves opportunities to hide ? and Kakashi can travel underground.
This is very close, but if Gai is at all clever he will not be playing this with high levels of hachimon. He'll be using the first three Gates at most, and relying on his stamina and quickness. He might win by merit of stamina and ability to dodge attacks, and I doubt Mangekyō will be able to clinch this for Kakashi as Gai should know enough about it.
Narrowly to Kakashi.
GameGod, the flaw I find in your reasoning is that you feel that increasing power and speed actually increases your chance against Kakashi without limit. Hachimon has a drawback proportional to the advantage it gives you, and not being presented with a real target perfectly counters any amount of power and speed.
If Gai tries any of the higher-level hachimon, Kakashi uses his fast hand seal speed while Gai opens the Gates to ensure that he won't be presenting a real target. He can leave clones, use genjutsu and travel underground: he has every tool he needs to make hachimon a bad move.
Just to note, your quantifications of the Gates benefit are fanfiction – they're not real values at all.
I see the fight going as follows, as you said:
Gai (3 Gates Open - Another Great Power Increase) = Kakashi Wins Barely
Gai won't go further, not because he's holding back, but because with any more Kakashi will change to a different plan and Gai will just hurt himself.
But wouldn't using Kyōmon benefit Gai, since it removes the limit to how fast he can move and removes wastes from dead skin cells to feces, and gives his body a much cleaner system to work with, producing even more power and stamina.
Would going to Kyōmon lead to Gai's victory because I doubt the Sharingan will defend against that much.
Kakashi would not be stupid enough to go in front of 8 Gate-Powered Gai and fight him in a head on, close combat match. He would send clone, who would make more clones to attack Gai. He would hide either at a reasonably far distance unknown to Gai (Gai would be powerful, but it's not like he could blow up the entire Earth and therefore every one of Kakashi's hiding places with ease) or underground, and by the time Gai had found Kakashi, which may not even happen, Gai would be long gone.
Yours sincerely,
Game Lord
My impression is that Kakashi can travel underground in the same manner as the Rain Trio used ? he breaks the surface of the earth as he returns. That said? I think you might have a point, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Even so, since we saw Yamato doing some tunnelling thing and covering his tracks, and this tunnelling seems to be obscenely fast, I don't fully agree with your conclusion.Dochu Eigyo was done by rain nins(oboro's team) where they were able to transfer body w.o exploiting ground as if they are transparent.
Kakashi created tunnel. and then used shinju zanshu. Similar to here.
All the Gates have a negative side-effect on the user, so however many he opens it will be bad for him overall if he can't actually use it to win quickly. Kakashi's not the sort you need more force against to beat.But wouldn't using Kyōmon benefit Gai, since it removes the limit to how fast he can move and removes wastes from dead skin cells to feces, and gives his body a much cleaner system to work with, producing even more power and stamina.
Would going to Kyōmon lead to Gai's victory because I doubt the Sharingan will defend against that much.
I didn't interpret the fight that way, but rather as Gai having the option. I guess it's down to interpretation though. Starting distance and location is really key, but I think that with Kakashi's lightning fast hand seal speed he can make himself safe quickly. I really don't see the idea that Gai at Eight Gates is so fast that everyone else is just frozen.I agree, but the fight begins with Gai at 8 Gates and Kakashi bloodlusted, so Kakashi does not have any extra time to prepare.
GameGod, the flaw I find in your reasoning is that you feel that increasing power and speed actually increases your chance against Kakashi without limit. Hachimon has a drawback proportional to the advantage it gives you, and not being presented with a real target perfectly counters any amount of power and speed.
If Gai tries any of the higher-level hachimon, Kakashi uses his fast hand seal speed while Gai opens the Gates to ensure that he won't be presenting a real target. He can leave clones, use genjutsu and travel underground: he has every tool he needs to make hachimon a bad move.
Just to note, your quantifications of the Gates benefit are fanfiction ? they're not real values at all.
I see the fight going as follows, as you said:
Gai (3 Gates Open - Another Great Power Increase) = Kakashi Wins Barely
Gai won't go further, not because he's holding back, but because with any more Kakashi will change to a different plan and Gai will just hurt himself.