Why do people think Sakura is smart/ good with genjutsu?

[Neji-Aniki-sama]

Originally posted by: ZakuHan
Sasuke is THE reason Sakura is a useless ninja. If she'd been put on another team, she would be a Genjutsu ninja (I assume) and damn good at it. But since she got paired up with the guy she obsesses over, she concentrated too much on that, and not enough on her skills. It's still all her fault anyway. If she really were serious about being a ninja she'd put her little crush aside and concentrate.

~Chris

If you allow me, I'd rephrase that as... Sasuke is the EXCUSE she gives herself to be an useless ninja...

[Stoopider]

Well Kakashi was the one who said that Sakura is good at genjetsu's. And Kakashi has been right so far. UNLESS YOU DOUBT KAKASHI!!! *Raises a brow*. Your lack of faith is disturbing. Heheh.

And Sakura, at the Chunnin exam. She's could answer all the questions on the paper test (I think). Everybody else copied. Sakura was the only one who did it by herself, if she got it correct. Heheh. Imagine all the answers on the paper are wrong.

[Neji-Aniki-sama]

Originally posted by: Stoopider
Well Kakashi was the one who said that Sakura is good at genjetsu's. And Kakashi has been right so far. UNLESS YOU DOUBT KAKASHI!!! *Raises a brow*. Your lack of faith is disturbing. Heheh.

And Sakura, at the Chunnin exam. She's could answer all the questions on the paper test (I think). Everybody else copied. Sakura was the only one who did it by herself, if she got it correct. Heheh. Imagine all the answers on the paper are wrong.

With that and ten bucks, she can get into a movie any time...

[LegendarySenninJiraiya]

Originally posted by: CapsuleCorpJX
I don't understand, Sakura has shown absolute no tactical proficiency or leadership skills in battle, so she's not really smart in any practical sense. And she isn't even the most book-smart gennin, because at the beginning of the anime, it was mentioned that Sasuke was the number one student in the academy.

Sakura is not good at either making genjutsu or detecting it. I've never seen her making any genjutsu. Also, at the beginning of the series, Naruto used genjutsu to look like Sasuke and she absolutely fell for it. She couldn't detect the genjutsu during the Chunnin exam either. The only time she showed any skill was staying awake when the stadium was attacked by a sleep genjutsu, and later helping to dispel it.

Ino is better than Sakura, she has a special ability. That and during Sakura and Ino's fight during the Chunnin exam, Ino actually used some clever tactics with her hair.

On a side note, how hilarious would it be if Sakura was matched up with Gaara during the Chunnin one on one fights?

ok, first off, transformation isnt really a genjutsu, tho it does fool you into believing something that isnt true, it actually turns the person into the other person, when naruto turned into akamaru, kiba picked him up and touched him and moved him around without knowing that its not really akamaru, other than by smell, also when naruto turned into the shurikens he grabbed em and threw em, so its not like when u use transformation you are still you but you just look to others like something else, u really become that other thing, thus not really a genjutsu, and also, she saw thru genjutsu several times, for instance, the chuunin exam registration where the room was the wrong floor, she and sasuke saw through it, her test that Kakashi sets up for her where the guy does an illusion of Sasuke dying, and she sees thru it, and the tourney when she and shikamaru stay awake thru the spell, also, being number 1 student doesnt mean you're the smartest bookwise, it means overall you're the best student, he was decent with books and great with ninja skills, also sakura shows a great knowledge of chakra usage and the like even tho she doesnt have much stamina or ability herself, i really hate her but any idiot can tell shes smart, useless in a battle but smart, shes the type u have at a command center telling u crap or something otherwise shes useless unless u can use her as a decoy to bite someone and hold them down

[EpoC]

yeah sakura sucks ass.

but she is kinda good at controlling her chakra.
so that means she has potential to learn more useful techs if she want's to. She doesn't train very much, all she does is daydreaming about sasuke.

she should train more. or else she will remain this usless biatch she is.

[Mut]

i can't believe that a thread about sakura is at 3 pages.

[Arctyc]

Well, she is a major character, like it or not.

She has shown proficiency several times - she was able to do tree-walking on her first try, she set up a double-layer trap in the Chuunin exam forest (though that failed when the sound ninja shattered the log), she cancelled a genjutsu from a high-level ninja, Kabuto; she evicted Ino from her mind...

She's also shown periods of utter ineptitude. But regardless of that, she still has a purpose to serve in the story. Of all the characters, she's been the one who is being outclassed left and right -- Naruto with his indomitable resolve and immense Kyuubi chakra, and Sasuke with his great natural talent and Sharingan. Her last refuge, and chance for power, would be to specialize a bit more.

[Sharingan 3y3]

man the thing i dont like about sakura is her being mean to naruto, i get pissed when she does that, and then she goes and licks sasukes balls