I think the whole Magecraft vs Chakra debate is missing the forest for the trees.
Things Rin can do with Magecraft that cannot easily be done with Chakra
-Store energy. Its extremely complex fuinjutsu to store chakra, while the resultant energy is largely personal. On the other hand its the Tohsaka trademark magecraft to store years of magical energy, and it can be used by any magus(which admittedly is just her if so).
-Remote Sensing. While Sensors exist, full sensory projection is pretty much a Hyuuga thing. But its only moderately complex for any Magus to hook up their senses to a familiar to perceive for them.
-Familiars. Naruto beast contracts are superior in their intelligence and general capabilities, but the contract is basically a personal alliance, with expectations on both sides, which are not trivially expendable. Magecraft can turn just about any animal(and some constructs) into expendable puppets, which is mainly a Yamanaka thing.
-Wide area surveillance effects. Fuinjutsu perimeter alarms and wards are very location limited, generally pretty blatant and very complex to set up. Meanwhile even Shirou's anemic capabilities can maintain a decent alarm field invisibly over his entire household.
-Direct spiritual attacks. Naruto techniques are heavily materialist, with spiritual attacks being mostly specialized clan techniques for Yin Release and the relatively easily disrupted Genjutsu. Rin can fire Gandrs like machineguns, overloaded until they start causing physical damage, and she has killed spirits with magic, while in Naruto, not a lot you can do directly to spirits outside of Sage Arts of super fancy eyehax.
-Object and body enhancement. This is a chakra staple, but Magecraft has it as reverse priority to Chakra, being very good at enhancing objects but difficult to augment body...but at the same time Magecraft CAN actually enhance things like senses to see for miles, while in Naruto that sort of thing is either Gates or Bloodline techniques.
-Enchantment. Okay, both sides are hellishly difficult whether you use Fuinjutsu or Mystic Code construction. Merging the two oughta be a treat though. For Science.
Short version: No outright superiority. But as the two tech trees have different low hanging fruits(the kind of energy attacks that even rookie shinobi can shit out would make Nasuverse magi green with envy, while transformations or clones are postgraduate magi work), by harvesting from both trees you can reap the best of both.
IF it works.
Things Rin can do with Magecraft that cannot easily be done with Chakra
-Store energy. Its extremely complex fuinjutsu to store chakra, while the resultant energy is largely personal. On the other hand its the Tohsaka trademark magecraft to store years of magical energy, and it can be used by any magus(which admittedly is just her if so).
-Remote Sensing. While Sensors exist, full sensory projection is pretty much a Hyuuga thing. But its only moderately complex for any Magus to hook up their senses to a familiar to perceive for them.
-Familiars. Naruto beast contracts are superior in their intelligence and general capabilities, but the contract is basically a personal alliance, with expectations on both sides, which are not trivially expendable. Magecraft can turn just about any animal(and some constructs) into expendable puppets, which is mainly a Yamanaka thing.
-Wide area surveillance effects. Fuinjutsu perimeter alarms and wards are very location limited, generally pretty blatant and very complex to set up. Meanwhile even Shirou's anemic capabilities can maintain a decent alarm field invisibly over his entire household.
-Direct spiritual attacks. Naruto techniques are heavily materialist, with spiritual attacks being mostly specialized clan techniques for Yin Release and the relatively easily disrupted Genjutsu. Rin can fire Gandrs like machineguns, overloaded until they start causing physical damage, and she has killed spirits with magic, while in Naruto, not a lot you can do directly to spirits outside of Sage Arts of super fancy eyehax.
-Object and body enhancement. This is a chakra staple, but Magecraft has it as reverse priority to Chakra, being very good at enhancing objects but difficult to augment body...but at the same time Magecraft CAN actually enhance things like senses to see for miles, while in Naruto that sort of thing is either Gates or Bloodline techniques.
-Enchantment. Okay, both sides are hellishly difficult whether you use Fuinjutsu or Mystic Code construction. Merging the two oughta be a treat though. For Science.
Short version: No outright superiority. But as the two tech trees have different low hanging fruits(the kind of energy attacks that even rookie shinobi can shit out would make Nasuverse magi green with envy, while transformations or clones are postgraduate magi work), by harvesting from both trees you can reap the best of both.
IF it works.
