Chakra Management Guide

This will probably be a review for most players but its worth going over.

– Try not to burn all of your chakra on one turn unless your attack will turn the tide of the battle in your favor.

People tend to get irrational and burn all their chakra if they see they can do a random skill. For example, say you have 1 tai and 2 nin with Kakashi and Naruto against Sasuke. You should not use any skill unless either Kakashi or Naruto have a threat of being killed so you can use Nindogs/Raikiri the following 2 turns.If you had Deidara and Oboro left and had 1 blood and 1 gen it might be worth it to pass your turn and hope you will get a nin in the next 2 chakra assuming you don’t get drained or spiked.

These are basic examples but show why storing chakra is helpful. Also, storing chakra can allow you to have an easier time “spiking” opponents or having a certain type of chakra available to counter the following turn. It depends on the situation but burning through all your chakra is not a good idea especially against drainers.

– Learn to count your chakra as well as your opponent’s chakra. Why?

Since you will be able to better predict your opponent’s moves as well as what moves you may be able to use. If you know how much chakra your opponent has you can tell if they will be able to use high chakra cost moves such as Kimimaro’s Seedling Fern (35 aoe). If you did not know how much chakra your opponent had you would not be able to decide for certain if they have the 3 chakra necessary to use the skill and you could either waste an invulnerable skill or be set up for a spike on a damaged character. Counting your own chakra works in the same fashion where you can determine the probability of pulling off one of your own skills. This is more important against drainers where every chakra counts. You have a higher probability of winning against drainers if you can tell how much chakra you’ll have the following turn.

Thanks to Nowhere for letting us use his guide

~ by graemedt on March 23, 2009.