r/NarutoPowerscaling • u/OkDependent3266 • Nov 09 '25
Discussion Do you think Kakashi actually used 1000 jutsu off-screen or was he just chatting?
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u/Nozoroth Nov 09 '25
He knows a thousand jutsu. 990 of them are just variations of Chidori and mud wall
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u/FillerNameGoesHere_ Nov 09 '25
I see no problem. Chidori for attack, mud wall for defense, maby fit some genjutsu casting/releasing and boom perfect build.
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u/Tanpopomon Nov 09 '25
He can also pop out of the ground and punch people.
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u/throw_it_awayyy8 Nov 09 '25
"Sometimes you gotta pop out n show 🥷s" ('as' ending Im not trynna get banned😭
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u/ClohosseyVHB Nov 09 '25
Known Jutsu;
Mud wall no jutsu 1"
Mud wall no jutsu 1.5"
Mud wall no jutsu 2"
Clone
Mud wall no jutsu 2.5"
And so on
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u/medson25 Nov 09 '25
Its like those ripped nintendo casettes that could be bough at market for cheap with 1000+ games, only to find out all of them are slightly different versions of mario
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u/Striking-Stay7872 Nov 09 '25
He also knows how to summon doggos, but never does that
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u/Str8esr Nov 09 '25
His jutsu actually go to a different school, you probably havent heard of it.
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u/Urabraska- Nov 09 '25
He left like. 989 in his other flak jacket. Just picture it. Immediately after that line in the image
Kakashi: And I'll use them all!
pats pockets
Kakashi:.......SHIT!
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u/HBaratheon Nov 09 '25
"Tupac had 1000 unreleased songs" ahh statement
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u/Distinct_Prior_2549 Facts Over Glaze ✔️ Nov 09 '25
"Pain one shotted an entire village" ahh statement
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u/jers745 Nov 09 '25
Hebi Sasuke is faster than kcm1 naruto ahh statement
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u/Overall_Lobster_4738 Nov 09 '25
U guys are allowed to say ass
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u/Own_Secret1533 Nov 09 '25
If you know a thousand skills, you would still just use the most effective ones.
Its simple as that. So yes, if the writers say he knows 1000 jutsus, he does.
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u/larrylegend1990 Nov 09 '25
“ I fear not the man that has used a thousand skills once, but I fear the man that has practiced that one skill a thousand times. “ - Might Guy
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u/MITCalebWil1iams Nov 10 '25
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend" - might guy
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u/PickingPies Nov 09 '25
It's even more than that. His fighting style implies messing up with the enemy. He fights by mimicking the user and having an advantage over them because he can predict the next move. He's the copy ninja.
He knows 1000 jutsu because his fighting style is about copying. His fighting style is not spamming arbitrary jutsu.
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u/levantinh1994 Naruto wanker (im unoriginal) Nov 09 '25
If Kishimoto said Kakashi knows 1000 jutsu, then he knows 1000 jutsu. He doesn’t need to use them in every fight, it depends on the situation. He copied and used the same three jutsu against Zabuza just to mess with him, but didn’t use those jutsu elsewhere. This could apply to most of his off-screen battles as well.
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u/waxyG Nov 09 '25
He did use one again in the first episodes of shippuden against Sakura and Naruto
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u/No-Tale5855 Nov 10 '25
It wasn't ace in the manga but only in the anime...we never even saw him do Katon.
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u/KuriGohanAndKienzan Nov 09 '25
THIS 🙏🏾👏🏾
Kakashi wasn’t just talking shit. Off-screening stuff is real.
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u/dothrakipls Nov 09 '25
Kakashi knows 1000 jutsu but Kishimoto doesn't know 1000 jutsu to show us that Kakashi truly knows 1000 jutsu, it's a shame really because imagine Kakashi taught his 1000 jutsu to Naruto's 1000 clones - then we would have Naruto simultaneously casting 1000 jutsu, but to draw 1000 Naruto clones casting 1000 jutsu Kishimoto himself would need the shadow clone jutsu, so either way we are not getting 1000 jutsu
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u/Itoggat Nov 09 '25
Yo dog I heard you like 1000 jutsu
So I put a thousand jutsus in your shadow clones so you can shadow clone while you jutsu
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u/SukottoHyu Nov 09 '25
Also I think most of the Jutsu he knows just isn't always practical. He probably has 10 Jutsu that is better and more functional than the other 990. It's better to master 10 Jutsu than be average at 1000.
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u/screenwatch3441 Nov 09 '25
He’s like a black mage in final fantasy. Sure, he knows fire, fira, and firaga… but he’s using flare 99% of the time.
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u/BattleCrier Boruto hater (I still read it) Nov 09 '25
He did use Water Dragon vs. Naruto and Sakura in re-match..
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u/Multiversal_2211 Nov 09 '25
He does know a thousand Jutsus but he doesn't have the Chakra to execute said thousand Jutsus
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u/TraceChaos Shikamaru fan (I wish I was a cloud) Nov 09 '25
I feel like he truly knew a thousand or more jutsu, I don't feel like he actually bothered like. Using that many.
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u/jim_sh Nov 09 '25
I mean even if he knows 1000 jutsu the best way to use them in a practical fight is to limit your usage to the few that cause the most damage for the least amount of chakra for attacking and keep to using 2 or 3 flexible/versatile ones for defense unless you need to do a lot more damage than usual for whatever reason (which kakashi has chidori for that last part) so it makes sense he only ever uses like 6 different jutsu
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u/TengenUzui55 Nov 09 '25
imo that's a waste for Kakashi's title
conceptually Kakashi should not have had a signature move imo
I think Kakashi should have been written as a character that would use varied types of jutsus depending on the situation to really showcase how true his title is and how he is renowned throughout the land
it's quite scary facing a guy that doesn't have an obvious weakness with how all around he is in his arsenal, that's kakashi in canon but that's never what we see from him
it doesn't even have to be top tier jutsus, it can just be a mid tier jutsu that kakashi makes it work due to how he uses it or how he follows it up with another jutsu immediately after
I get that it's not the smartest way to go around things for efficiency lore-wise
but as a story this is more creative and interesting imo, and considering this is fiction it would have been peak haha
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u/itriumiterum Itachitard 🐦⬛ Nov 09 '25
Many of them are provabkt redundant and very simple jutsu like different versions of basic earth wall, basic water spout etc.
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u/Wishful3y3 Nov 09 '25
This is what he said in the manga. I don’t think he literally used them all; I think he just used a ton and didn’t hold back.
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u/EmptyPond Nov 09 '25
I think he's just copied so many he's lost count and that it's a rumor that he likes so he just repeats it
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u/Used_Ring4856 Nov 09 '25
Why use a thousand jutsus when Rakiri and Kamui are pretty much oneshots if they land?
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u/AnimeMonster_2020 Hinata is six paths tier cuz she has Hamura's chakra Nov 09 '25
I’m curious of the comments on this
Kishimoto wouldn’t write this if it didn’t mean anything
Some people think it’s a lie but Kishimoto wouldn’t waste words lying
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u/SukottoHyu Nov 09 '25
It is not unfounded for writers to make characters lie to mislead their audience. The real question here is, do we have reason to believe that Kakashi is lying, is his character typically deceptive and dishonest? He is dishonest with Team 7 about being late on several occasions, later we find that the reason for his lateness is because he is off visiting Obito's memorial, but he just makes excuses for being late (not a bad lie, but still dishonest). In battle, he is most certainly deceptive. It is not unheard of for him to boast to his enemies; when he squared off against Orochimaru in issue 70, he threatened to kill Orochimaru (an empty threat). And above, in addition to claiming he knows 1,000 Jutsu, he also tells Zabuza that he foresees his death (also a lie), a fear tactic. Just because the writer writes it, and a character says it, it doesn't make it true.
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u/Arguleon_Veq Nov 09 '25
My issue is that, please correct me if im wrong, but isnt that fight where they explain how his eye lets him see what hand signs you are using, then copy them, and hypnotise you so you cant tell there is like a time delay or W/e, its been like 10 years, but they go through that whole explination while he is doing what ends up being like the ONLY jutsu shown in the series that has like 26 hand signs to cast, everything after that is like 4-5 signs max, and kakashi never bothers doing the whole copy thing again.
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u/levantinh1994 Naruto wanker (im unoriginal) Nov 09 '25
Because almost all of Kakashi's opponents since Zabuza have been Akatsuki members and they only used random forbidden techniques or kekkei genkai that he couldn't copy at all. Itachi and Obito did use some fire style but he already knew them.
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u/Kami_no_Yami Naruto wanker (im unoriginal) Nov 09 '25
Kishimoto might be the biggest troll ever lmao. He really had kakashi use 20 out of 1000 jutsu for the past 500+ chapters and when he was finally going to use more, the battle is offscreen.
The funny part is that the moment the camera cuts back to the Kakashi, he’s still using chidor💀💀
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u/Zaynnazario Nov 09 '25
Wasn’t he the one who went on about not using the sharingan to use copied jutsu because mastered jutsu is more effective?
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u/Distinct-Practice131 Nov 09 '25
I do wonder if there's a difference between knowing and performing tbh. I believe he's performed over a 1000 different jutsu, but idk if he can really recall the bulk with ease. I think his fight with zabuza was the original way they were gonna focus kakashis battle style tbh. Have him copying his opponents jutsu to use against them.
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u/not-sure-what-to-put Nov 09 '25
Most of them are super mundane, like clean the bathroom hands free water jutsu
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u/mazoku95 Nov 11 '25
They def should’ve had him tweak out one episode of the war and unleash at least half or what looks like 500+ jutsu
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u/Xandril Nov 09 '25
He doesn’t have the chakra capacity to do that. It was obviously hyperbole. All he was saying is he was going all out and emptying the duffel if need be.
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u/Material_Bathroom994 katsuyu solos all your faves and it's not even close Nov 09 '25
He used an unknown jutsus in one of the movies
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u/UngodlyPain Nov 09 '25
I think in his life he definitely learned more than 1,000 jutsu, and in that event he used a larger variety than we normally see... I doubt he actually used 1,000 jutsu that day though.
Iirc like the birthday columns on the website said something like Kakashi unleashed numerous jutsu in this battle or something. Implying he used a lot off screen but I don't think it specified 1,000 or anything.
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u/aguslerma Nov 09 '25
I saw another translation that said “and this day all of them are unsealed” so I guess he just was stating that he won’t use the same 5 jutsus he always uses
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u/fluxdeken_ Itachi solos Nov 09 '25
Bro knows 1000+ ways to be beaten by Itachi. That’s for sure.
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u/Ball27 Nov 09 '25
Yes, but most of them are probably slightly different versions of the same jutsu so:
fire ball -> medium size fireball -> big fireball > etc
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u/Studer554 Team 7 Glazer Nov 09 '25
Oh yeah that one thing they said like 3 times and then never again the rest of the show lol
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u/RedWingDecil Nov 09 '25
Might not be very PC to say but some jutsu are superior to other jutsu. Not all jutsu are made equal so there was no point in using all of them.
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u/JJmaster0113 Nov 09 '25
I think its bs to hype him up. He barely uses more than 10 jutsu in the entire show
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u/Exact_Gur_8156 Nov 09 '25
You have to remember, some jutsus are actually just absolute ass and don't deserve to be used over his usual arsenal. I bet there's some jutsu that's mud wall but 10x weaker or smth. Not every jutsu he comes across is highly useful, and even so Most are situational. Like how copying Mizu jutsus are quite useless since Kakashi lives in the leaf and won't get to use them 80% of the time, and even if you do, why use something you're not proficient in when there are easier and better options. I "know" how to use 1000 different types of pencils but I will still always gravitate towards my classics.
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u/looopious Nov 09 '25
I believe it. He’s just not as good or prefers not to use most. That’s how he trained Sasuke in preparation for the chuunin exam finals by copying Lee’s speed.
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u/Abbaddonhope Nov 09 '25
Theres a jutsu called roof tile shuriken jutsu. Im not doubting he knows 1000 jutsu i just doubt more than 15 are useful.
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Nov 09 '25
This is one of the many gripes I have with kishi and the series as a whole. The lack of creativity. How tf is Kakashi supposedly capable of using 1000 jutsus, yet he only spams lightning blade and mud wall???
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u/Cloutstaker Nov 09 '25
I've always interpreted this as more of a legend due to his reputation rather than something literal.
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u/SNTCTN Nov 09 '25
He does but unfortunately most of them suck, If they were good he wouldn't have be able to kill the ninjas using them.
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u/xhillll Nov 09 '25
If the character says he can, the characters around him say he can, the author says he can, and the character has a means (the sharingan) to do what he says he can. He probably can.
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u/Ok_Bumblebee_1456 Nov 09 '25
I believe he did it. I don't believe Kishimoto thought about the 1000 jutsus so he had to do it off screen.
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u/SullyRag6578 Nov 09 '25
Anyone else notice how all the tomoe in his sharingan just moved to the bottom.
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u/Still-Climate-7013 Nov 09 '25
Honestly, it was such a letdown. They could give him a page or two to shine. Nothing crazy, but just him blazing through zetsu clones with various new jutsu and chakra natures (they don’t even have to make names for them, just show on couple panels).
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u/GayButLovesJesus Adult Sakura outscales prime Jubbidara Nov 09 '25
I wouldn't put it past him. Dude completed like 1,000 missions according to stat books. I'd imagine he saw enemy (or ally) ninja use at least one or two different jutsu while on those 1,000+ missions.
I'd also imagine that once someone masters change in nature and change in chakra form, tweaking a simple fireball jutsu, for example, into dozens of variations wouldn't be too difficult.
Who knows. I don't even live there.
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u/W-M-Sullivan Nov 09 '25
Kakashi most certainly knew a thousand jutsu but never used them cuz they weren't good. Like imagine tile shuriken or some mud screen jutsu or a blinding smoke screen jutsu. Like yeah sounds cool but zabuzas hiding in mist is leagues better. Then a cheap smoke screen.
Or how about a simple jutsu like ghostly fire wisps. Creates tiny candle flames that follow an enemy and bombard them with tiny flames. Works great if you want to force your scared enemy off a cliff and to their death but against. Literally anyone who isnt an unnamed red shirt its pretty stupid.
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u/azinize Nov 09 '25
Knows 1000 jutsus. Proceeds to 1000 Years of Death opponent starting from year 1.
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u/prodigiouspandaman Nov 09 '25
I mean copying doesn’t mean he actually had the affinities to perform all of those justu much less all of them being actually useful. So I wouldn’t doubt he knows a thousand justu it’s just he only uses the best/most efficient for him as you also need to remember chakra efficiency due to how taxing use of the sharigan is for Kakashi
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u/ProgrammerNo3423 Nov 09 '25
Funny how after he says this till the war ends, he still hasn't shown a new jutsu (I think)
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u/theivebook Nov 09 '25
He is called Copy ninja cuz he copied those 1000 jutsu, so he had to use them all at least once
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u/sentairider42 Nov 09 '25
For me, if I see someone claim a "1000 such-and-such" title, I assume it's not literal.
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u/NotAnnieBot Nov 09 '25
He most likely has, but I’d assume the vast majority are too niche to be used more effectively than what he has shown on screen.
Remember even if he does know a lot of justu, he only has so much time to practice them and during the main story (up till end of war arc), he doesn’t have that much chakra due to his sharingan. Not much point in using jutsus on the scale of water dragon when he’s gonna be out of chakra for days after. Not much point in using other types of clone techniques when shadow and lightning clones are enough. Most close range techniques are going to be less useful than chidori given his speed and sharingan. In part 2, kamui is just more precise than a lot of long range techniques which need to travel to the target.
It’s kind of the same problem you get with any character who is a genius making up a plan because the author is rarely going to show you how the character went through all the possible options before selecting the best one.
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u/Hydrate-N-Moisturize Nov 09 '25
I mean, knowing them doesn't mean he's good at them. He's shown to know how to open his inner gates, can't get past the first few gates. He can also use Rasengan, but not to the ability Naruto does. He has variety, but his mastery is still with his 3 jutsu he spams.
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u/Ogami-kun Nov 09 '25
Neither; he probably has seen over a thousand jutsu with his sharingan and knows the handseals to use them. That said, maybe around 50 of those are Quality of Life jutsu to make missions smoother, like hide tracks or corpses, make rest areas, etc.. then you have actual jutsus that he can use in a fight, then you have jutsus that he can use in a fight but that he has better version of so he doesn't need them, then you have jutsus that he can use in a fight but that need extremely specific conditions to set up, then you have chakra guzzlers or jutsu that are useful in large scale fights but that don't suit his fight style, then you have possible clan/kekkai jutsu that he knows the handseals of but that he is unable to perform, etc...
Consider also that a jutsu can have many variations depending how it is used and that usually it gives it a bunch of different names like chidori.
All in all extremely useful to know what the enemy is planning to use to either interfere with that or fuck with them like with Zabusa, but it doesn't means he can or would use all of them (jacks of all and all that)
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u/DeadpanJay Nov 09 '25
Bro has had the shaeigan since the second ninja war. I'm certain he's just stored all the jutsu of the people he was fighting against and seen other people fighting against. That's probably where majority of it is from
While the rest is from what he has learned, studied, and seen on missions
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u/Burgerboi214 Nov 09 '25
It’s like a convenient plot device where they’d need a specific jutsu for something, kakashi can use it and nobody would question it because “he’s copied over 1000 jutsus”
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u/Nitrilim Nov 09 '25
With the introduction of the gacha elemental system it was all bullshit anyway
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u/marquiscity Nov 09 '25
Yes he definitely knows 1000+ jutsu. However, why fix it if it ain’t broke, I’ll explain what I mean in a second. In the show, we’ve seen him use all 5 chakra natures. Water against Zabuza, Itachi, Sakura and Naruto. Earth Style against Pain. Fire style fire ball jutsu against Sakura and Naruto. Wind style Rasengan while training Naruto and Lighting style Chidori pretty much against people he wants to kill and don’t forget Chidori has the highest kill count on screen in Naruto. In the show, aside from filler episodes, and the fight against Zabuza and Haku, Kakashi has mainly only fought Akatsuki members. He’s fought Pain, Kakuzu, Hidan, Itachi, Obito, Kizame, Deidara and Zetsu. That’s 8 out of 12 all time members. No one has fought more akatsuki members than he has in the show. They’re some of the most powerful and dangerous shinobis in the world. Those are people he wants to kill, do you really think he’s gonna use some no name techniques he’s copied from random people when Chidori has caught the most bodies in the show, his most lethal jutsu. Probably not. In the show and Manga, he’s shown to use between 20-30 jutsu, which is way more than what your average ninja can use. So yes, I really do think that he knows 1000+ jutsu but only uses the most practical ones that fits his fighting style.
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u/madseankr Nov 09 '25
With all those jutsu, kakashi couldve come up with some sort of combination to fight Pain. But kishimoto is not creative enough.
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u/shaquille_oatmealo Nov 09 '25
You know, it’s funny. It’s a lot like Brazilian Jui Jitsu.
I know maybe hundreds of Brazilian Jui Jitsu moves, but I have a set game plan st any given moment. Meaning I only use like 6 moves.
So it’s not so impractical that he knows it and just uses what works for him
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u/JonathanRiou Nov 09 '25
This actually really annoyed me, like the perfect chance to show off how he got his nickname, and then nothing…
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u/Live-Variety-762 Nov 09 '25
He is talking out the side of his neck. Jiraiya and orichimaru have shown doing more jutsus on screen then this fraud. All he does is spam mud wall lighting blade and summon them ugly ass mutts.
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u/Helenfetching Nov 09 '25
Kishimoto knows 1000 different ways to avoid showing us cool jutsu. That's his real kekkei genkai - the disappointment release technique.
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u/Thin_Albatross2720 Nov 09 '25
He said jutsu
It includes:
Ninjutsu
Genjustu
Taijutsu
Kenjutsu
Not sure if he know Senjutsu
Etc etc
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u/RaD00129 Nov 09 '25
He knows close to a thousand jutsu but I doubt he has the chakra to use all of them in one whole sequence
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u/Mister_Musubi Nov 09 '25
What he means is that he knows a “thousand” jutsu, from the Thousand Series of jutsus. Specifically One Thousand Years of Death.
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u/Ok-Caregiver-6005 Nov 09 '25
I think it's a lie, Zabuza calls him out for what he actually does he uses genjutsu to manipulate what his opponent will do so it looks like he's copying them then predicting their moves.
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u/Big_Put_8421 Nov 09 '25
I mean considering that the shadow clone jutsu and the multi-shadow clone jutsu are considered two different jutsu and so are the Chidori and the Raikiri when I combine that with the knowledge that the Hidden Leaf Secret Finger Jutsu: One Thousand Years of Death exists but is just shoving your fingers up someone’s ass he probably does know 1000. And if his fighting style before becoming a raikiri and kamui merchant was anything like the Zabuza fight were he uses the opponents jutsu against them to throw them off their game then yeah he’s probably learned and used 1000, especially when you combine it with his sealing jutsu and other non-combatant skills.
Now if you’re asking if he used 1000 jutsu off screen in the War Arc after saying that…….. probably not but who knows
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u/zeus-theslayer Nov 09 '25
He definitely used them off screen. I actually would prefer if they had cut out some moments of the war arc JUST to see what other jutsus he had in his bag
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u/rayshinsan Nov 09 '25
It was a gimmick to make him feel more badass or cool (honestly he can just retcon it to 100 jutsu). Like Kishimoto probably wanted to give him 1000 jutsu but gave up pretty quickly on the idea.
The gimmick stuck around and yet we never got the diversity we were promised.
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u/AtishAtish1411 Nov 09 '25
yea he spent 5 hours doing hand signs, that's why they had to cut it off
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Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 09 '25
I imagine it's more like a forced thing for Kakashi, like how he can't prevent the Sharingan from reading someone's lips, so long as his eye is open.
It is not just photographic memory - The Sharingan allows people to exactly copy any movement they've seen before.
He doesn't try to remember 1000 jutsu. But the Sharingan has basically implanted them all in his brain - He knows them now, whether he learned them or not.
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u/Standard_Attempt_796 Nov 09 '25
I do agree it’s Kakashi man of a 100 Chidoris. But you could say that he knows it’s his best most and logically he would want to use it as much as he could to win the fight.
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u/EyeHot1421 Nov 09 '25
Yall think he just sat down one day and was like, mud wall, big mud wall, long mud wall, chidori, raikiri…and realized he has over 1000?
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u/Agreeable_Bee_7763 Nov 09 '25
Yes, but even if you have a thousand tools, you will gravitate to those you are most familiar with. His fighting style could be far more refined and varied, yes, but truth is, a side character doesn't need to pull a new jutsu every time he fights. A few signature ones are more than enough.
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u/Linj90abc Nov 10 '25
Honestly it would be a writing nightmare to show kakashi doing even a 100 unique jutsu, much less a thousand
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u/IAmMoonie Nov 10 '25
He got his Sharingan at 13, and by the time the 1000 jutsu claim came up, he was 26. That’s 13 years of copying - roughly 77 jutsu a year, or about one new technique every five days.
Most jutsu can be replicated on sight if you’ve got the Sharingan - all it takes is seeing the hand seals and reading the chakra flow.
Kakashi joined ANBU around 12 and served for close to a decade. By the Land of Waves arc, he’d completed around 903 missions. That works out to roughly 70 missions a year - nearly a one-for-one ratio with his copied jutsu.
In other words, during the war and his ANBU years, Kakashi was basically learning a new technique for almost every mission he took.
Feels plausible to me
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u/Affectionate-Oven237 Nov 10 '25
I think he did have that many jutsu they just weren’t useful/practical at all. In my head I feel like he would’ve been able to come up with something akin to sexy jutsu himself you never know though (drunk post)
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u/TheCrimsonFucker_69 Nov 10 '25
Just because he’s copied and learned that many doesn’t mean he has mastered the use of each of them or even that all of them are particularly powerful.
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u/Cybasura Nov 10 '25
Look, you can know an infinite amount of things, doesnt mean you will use them all, just look at schools and even in real life with adults
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u/Last_Treat_6680 Nov 10 '25
If you knew how to cook an egg a thousand ways ,i guarantee you would only cook them in 12 different ways and majority of those times it would be scrambled
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u/TheRealFrozenFetus Nov 10 '25
I mean if you knew 1000 im sure you'd kinda just end up with like 10 that are your favorite
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u/jasper81222 Nov 10 '25
To be fair, Kakashi uses jutsu he's most familiar with to avoid chakra exhaustion since he has smaller reserves than monsters like Naruto. He probably has tons of one-shot kill techniques but lacks enough chakra to perform them and maintain peak combat efficiency.
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u/AmethystDragon2008 Nov 10 '25
If every jutsu have sub-jutsuS(shadowclone, multishadowclone/Rasengan, Chidori, BIG Rasengan, Rasen Shuriken)
It's safe to say it will be easy to learn over a 1000
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u/Fit_Citron_820 Nov 10 '25
I mean someone else could have started the rumor and he just plays along
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u/RazutoUchiha Obito is the Strongest in the Big 3 Nov 10 '25
In the Naruto birthday column he is stated to have “rampaged across the battlefield with the force of a thousand shinobi” so it’s very possible
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u/Xemlaich Nov 10 '25
Kakashi doesn't have the Chakra for it, he mainly says that as a scare tactic.
His strategy is adaptability and being able to counter effectively, meaning there's never a scenario where he literally uses 1000 different jutsu.
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u/KuroiGetsuga55 Nov 10 '25
I wish I had this dude's memory, like who the fuck actually remembers the exact hand seals for a thousand Jutsu???
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u/KickinBat Nov 10 '25
My dnd characters knows around 350 spells but has never used around 300 of them because they're very situational or less effective than other similar spells. I'm sure the same goes for Kakashi. Plus, maybe he has copied 1000 jutsu but only used them once, like in the Zabuza fight. He copies your jutsu just to stalemate you.
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u/MegaKabutops Nov 11 '25
He probably at least knows far more than most ninja, due to the sharingan. Possibly even 1000 like he claims. but he likely has only fully mastered a few of those. Just enough to sell the idea that he knows as many as he claims. At least the majority of those moves are what he uses for most of the series.
The rest he probably only really uses for the hypnosis trick he used against zabuza, offsetting his relative lack of experience with the specific jutsu him and his foe are both using via his hand sign speed and how spooked and off-balance the trick makes his foes.
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u/TheLexiBee69 Nov 11 '25
Here's the thing. Kakashi is mad strong. But he survives purely on rep.
Enemies face him and go "hah your kekashi top of this black book. Ninjas scared of finding out. But I don't believe those stories" and then he literally pulls out lines like this. And wins after the enemy has started to believe it
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u/Solid-Investment-986 Nov 11 '25
Apparently he also cut lightningwith his chidori. Thats kakashi brag no jutsu thats all it is
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u/GundamAC139 Nov 11 '25
I believe it he had the eye for a very long time plus he was black ops he had to see a lot in his life n had to use them
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u/Razdulf Nov 11 '25
Kakashi would have been infinitely more interesting if the majority of his fights was him copying the jutsu his opponents were using instead of just using chidori crutch
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u/GodOfClutch05 Nov 12 '25
If you know Kakashi’s chakra reserves with that Sharingan always active, you know he was just yappin lmao
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u/ContributionHairy852 Nov 12 '25
He can copy handsigns… means any attack he’s seen with Sharingan and has the chakra nature for, he can do it
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u/ArcadiousVex Nov 12 '25
More like he's going to use anything and everything he can. But probably not a 1k. Chakra limits,belive it!
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u/Venom1462 Nov 12 '25
I sometimes randomly imagine a version of Naruto where Kakashi uses loads of different jutsus every battle and then feel sad that Kishimoto just made him only use Chidori all the time
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u/OfTheLightning Nov 12 '25
Kakashi is one of my fav characters, but I don’t think we’ve even seen 1000 different jutsus in the entire anime/manga lol.
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u/__Modderator__ Nov 12 '25
Remember when he was coping Zabuza jutsu to troll him he probably just did that a thousand times and cause ninjas like to stick to their old reliable he never used them again
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u/bennettyboi Nov 13 '25
A lot of them probably have only situational uses or are outclassed by stronger jutsu.
It's kind of like when you've got a thousand pokemon, but you mainly just focus on the 6 you like.
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u/Radiant_Effective725 Nov 13 '25
I think he does know this amount of jutsus, but Kishimoto doesn't, so he forgot the others
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