Here Is Why Sasuke Cannot Use Sage Mode!
Sasuke Uchiha is one of the most important characters in the whole Naruto franchise. The antihero of the series, Sasuke, has been it all – the villain, the hero, and, finally, an antihero that beautifully complements Naruto’s heroic ideals. On top of that, Sasuke is also one of the strongest characters in the whole series. Many of his powers and abilities stem from the fact that he could use the Rinnegan, but he lost it in Boruto after being stabbed by Momoshiki, who possessed Boruto at the time. Still, Sasuke has a lot of other powers and abilities, among which is the Sage Mode – or is it? In this article, you will find out why Sasuke cannot use Sage Mode in Naruto.
Sasuke Uchiha was physically able to learn Sage Mode, especially since he had already had experience using senjutsu chakra, but it is also a fact that he never learned it or used it in the series. This is because he simply did not have the need to do so, as he had already had numerous other powerful techniques, so Sage Mode was, for him, something he did not need at the time, which is why he never learned it.
In this article, we will tell you more about Sasuke and Sage Mode, i.e., we will explain in more detail whether Sasuke Uchiha can learn Sage Mode, which is relevant because we know he has never used it in the series. We will review his powers and abilities, revealing and explaining to you how powerful he is and why he did or did not need Sage Mode. We will also answer some additional questions related to his powers and abilities.
What is Sage Mode in Naruto?
As we usually do in such articles, please allow us to explain what Sage Mode is before we give you the full answer to the main question. Namely, a lot of fans, even those that search for specific answers, know the things they are inquiring about only superficially, and sometimes, a good and thorough knowledge of a phenomenon can help you understand it better and even answer some derives questions one might have, such as in this case. This is why we have decided to explain what Sage Mode is before we give you a full answer to the main question of this article, as presented in the title.
Sage Mode is a technique based on senjutsu chakra. All skills, physical strength, and jutsus are extremely strengthened. In addition, the user can use Kawazu Kumite, a type of Tai-Jutsu, which increases the hit radius through the natural chakra. However, Jiraiya needs the help of Fukasaku and Shima to enter this mode. First, he adds more marks to his cheeks; then, he summons Fukasaku and Shima to sit on his shoulders. In this mode, Jiraiya’s appearance resembles that of a frog, with warts, a larger nose, and hands and feet that have also been transformed.
All three can use their own jutsu or combine them with each other. The main reason Jiraiya resembles a frog is that he never mastered the technique perfectly. In this technique, you have to achieve a perfect balance between physical energy, mental energy, and natural energy. If you use too little natural energy, the technology will not work. Using too much natural energy turns you into a frog forever. Jiraiya is said to have never really mastered this technique, as he used a little bit too much natural energy, which is why he partly turned into a frog on the outside.
However, Naruto Uzumaki manages to master the technique without transforming in appearance, surpassing even Jiraiya in this. According to Fukasaku, one cannot move as long as one gathers the energy of nature. However, you could have someone collect natural energy for you if you have physical contact with that person. Fukasaku suggests to Naruto that he could collect the energy while Naruto moves. However, there are problems: Kyuubi’s chakra repels Fukasaku.
Naruto doesn’t want to accept that because otherwise, he would have completed the hermit training for nothing. He has the idea of collecting natural energy in motion, but this is impossible. Fukasaku’s analogy of gathering natural energy while moving is like looking left and right at the same time, giving Naruto the idea of using shadow doppelgangers to gather the senjutsu chakra.
In the fight against Pain, he left behind two shadow clones in the frog world, which then transferred their nature chakra to the real Naruto as follows: Fukasaku uses the scroll on Naruto’s back to perform a jutsu that teleports a shadow doppelganger back to the real world, and instantly Naruto can dissolve the shadow clone, which means that the natural chakra collected by this is available to the real Naruto. He can immediately go back into Sage Mode. Naruto can only have two shadow clones gather the nature chakra and cannot summon more than three in combat itself.
If he created more shadow clones, it would hinder the other clones from gathering nature chakra. In the Sage Mode, Naruto can sense and track a person’s chakra. In addition to the toads’ hermit mode, there is one of the snakes, which Orochimaru never learned to master, and Kabuto Yakushi perfected as the only known user. In doing so, he takes on the appearance of a scaly creature and increases his physical abilities, as already described at the beginning of the article.
Can Sasuke learn Sage Mode? Why didn’t he?
Well, we have now explained what Sage Mode is, how it is learned, and who can learn it. Knowing that Sasuke definitely has had experience with senjutsu chakra, which is a main prerequisite for activating Sage Mode, we can conclude that Sasuke Uchiha definitely can learn Sage Mode. He has enough power, he has enough experience, and had he wanted to, he would definitely have learned Sage Mode without too many difficulties. So, we have to ask ourselves: why didn’t he?
Well, the internet is, as usual, full of various theories that try to explain why Sasuke Uchiha never learned Sage Mode, with some theories even suggesting that he was not able to or that “it was Naruto’s thing” and that Sasuke could not learn it because Naruto learned it. Sage Mode is not a one-person-exclusive technique, so the fact that Naruo mastered it had absolutely no influence on the fact that Sasuke did not. But, indirectly, one of the out-of-universe reasons why Kishimoto did not give Sasuke access to Sage Mode is quite probably because that technique had been given to Naruto, and Kishimoto did not want to repeat himself by copying off of Naruto.
This is why it was, in-universe, decided that Sasuke should not learn Sage Mode, although he was able to. The real reason for this was never explained, but we theorize that Sasuke simply did not need to learn Sage Mode. As an Uchiha and someone who had been in contact with Orochimaru, Sasuke had enough powerful techniques of his own, and it did not seem like he needed Sage Mode at the time, which is probably why he never bothered to learn it in the first place.