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It does not.
Shadow Imitation is probably the best in a vacuum, but in terms of short-term payoff, probably Shadow Step or Shadow Visage.
You need to cast it every time you want to use it.
No.
See above.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
Okay I would just buy Shadow Step then. Seems like the best value, and we already have the buff stunt for it
EDIT: Looks like we could buy up to Shadow Step 28 with the Yam XP. Seems like we should do that.
EDIT: Looks like we could buy up to Shadow Step 28 with the Yam XP. Seems like we should do that.
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My thoughts are to keep it in lockstep with Substitution. Level it to 25, and keep it there until we need to level it with Substitution.
As for Shadow Imitation supposedly being the best, longterm... I don't really see the point. Kei already has a ranged option, and it's pretty powerful when supplemented by our seals (KISS, Explosives, etc) and her ninjuts (CotWG, looking at you). I'm not sure it's worth it to raise Shadow Imitate using Yamanaka XP, given how long it'll take. And her "real" XP is better spent elsewhere, imo.
There has to be something there that we're not able to see yet.
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It's a special case. It happened because we made a rules change that invalidated her sheet; we weren't going to retroactively punish her, so we simply said it could stay so long as it eventually got straightened out and she didn't raise a new capstone or do anything that would make the situation worse.
Why? It's free XP and none of the other jutsu seem immediately useful. We keep Sub at Ath/2 since that's XP efficient. But this is free XP, no reason to bother with that.
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Maybe! But I expect that to be the domain of people like Lee and Gai that monofocus on a single thing to the detriment of everything else.
Ok - since Shadow Step apparently can be cast using the same Supplemental as Substitution, I'm cool with pushing up Shadow Step. Since we don't know exactly how it combines with Substitution, though, it's hard to say how high to level it - but lockstep with Sub seems like a reasonable guess, and pushing it higher might plausibly be a waste.
… On second thought, given that Kei needs more 30s for pyramid support, I'm fine with pushing Shadow Step to 30 (so high as possible now, then to 30 once we get the Yamanaka XP to do it.) We'll raise Sub that high eventually, and I think it's unlikely that having Shadow Step at par with Substitution will turn out to be a waste.
In addition to this, Shadow Imitation presumably rolls to attack, and therefore will benefit from the elemental capped-bonus stunts; which means it may not make sense to have it as capstone Shadow, rather than a technique that doesn't roll. That said, it might have some major Effect-based boost that means it benefits from being at a higher base level, and it might not make sense to level any of the others that high … but regardless, while I can see the utility of an esoteric ninjutsu that lets you control someone else's body, it seems unlikely that it'll be useful without a huge amount of investment.