What also I find weird is that every elemental user seems to have their own version of the shadow clone. From Water Clones, to Wood Clones to now Crystal Clones. It's alot of fancy words for what is essentially all thing-that-looks-like-me-and-dies-in-one-hit-jutsu. I wish they would explain differences between them because they always do that and I'm like "why didn't you just learn Shadow Clone?"
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I wonder how clan members graduate from the Academy if they never bother to learn techniques outside their own clan.

And on that topic... how the hell did Lee graduate?

Kishimoto made a big thing of Naruto failing three times for not making a bunshin. The only other ninja to make Bunshins has been Sakura. None of the clan members have ever use them.
It's a pretty big plothole honestly. I mean, granted, graduation is pretty freeform and if a kid was obviously a taijutsu genius while being deficient everywhere else he could still probably get a pass.

But wasn't Lee shitty in everything before he got into Gai's squad? So like you said, how the hell did Lee graduate in the first place?