Kakashi Was The WORST Sensei in Naruto!

Kakashi is a good example of how being good at something doesn't mean you will be good at teaching that thing

Kakashi reminds me of high level athletes that go on to be coaches and suck at it. When you’re a prodigy, it’s probably frustrating to teach non-prodigies. The inverse is probably why Jiraiya was an incredible teacher.

Team 7 is the epitome of the kids in the pool meme meme. Kakashi is lifting up Sasuke, Naruto is trying not to drown, and Sakura is dead in the water.

Not only did Kakashi leave Sakura for a month, he taught her nothing for weeks while Sasuke and Naruto were learning to climb the tree. Sakura was just chilling and wasting time. And btw, Might Guy helped build Neji's stamina by having him compete with Lee.

In all honesty....Kakashi's 3 only began to realize true potential AFTER they went to the Sannin. Sakura was suppose to be a Genjutsu specialist before Tsunade 😂😂😂😂😂

In a flashback scene of Lee learning the Lotus, Guy actually says something along the lines of "In the end only Lee could learn this jutsu" meaning he actually tried to teach both Neji and Tenten the Lotus. Lee might have been his favourite but he definitely loved all three of them. Also Neji did get to make jonin, I believe he was the only of the Konoha 12 to make Jonin during the timeskip. Lol

Kakashi ditching Naruto and Sakura to teach Sasuke individually never sat right with me upon viewing. Even though he understood how far behind the other two were, he focused on Sasuke because he clearly favored him. This made me see Kakashi as too conceited/aloof to be a fully functional sensei for the remainder of the series tbh but he's still badass

I am 1000% convinced Teuchi would do it too. That man always fed Naruto even when he couldn't pay. He never chased him off from his restaurant even though every other shop owner did. And he gave him that coupon at his wedding. I am convinced he truly saw Naruto as his unofficial son.

He also taught Sasuke the one jitsu that works with just plowing ahead and not worryingly about what's behind you. He legitimately gave him tunnel vision the jitsu

This feels like one of those things where Kishimoto had an endgoal in mind but couldn't didn't have a good way to get there. I doubt that he intended to make Kakashi look bad but he needed his students to be mentored by the Sannin so Kakashi got thrown under the bus. Kishimoto probably doesn't even realize how dirty he did Kakashi's character.

My whole thing with kakashi is that he not only neglected the three in regards to their training, but he also neglected their emotional needs. Naruto was clearly starved for any form of positive reinforcement that ne scarcely received in his entire life. Sakura had a lack of self esteemed and essentially let everyone walk over and ignore her. Sasuke had SEVERE emotional and psychological trauma not to mention his aggression, superiority and inferiority complex and lack of social skills. At the very least he should have tried to get sasuke in a more emotionally stable state of mind given their shared similarities wnd trauma, but all he did was give an unstable child access to skills he shouldn't have and a few random pep talks and expected hijmto figure it out. I get that they are basically child soldiers but with how their own sensie treated them I'm surprised they had enough plot armor to get as good as they did with so few body counts.

Ironic considering I'd say Bushy Brow Sensei is the absolute #1 Sensei, due to the fact he got Ten-Ten AND Rock Lee who were both garbage in nearly everything, but he found a way to turn them both into masters. Albeit with hard work from each of them, he allowed his entire team to absolutely thrive with what they had, Neji was a prodigy so he didn't need as much help.

Really makes you appreciate Might Guy training his team both 1-on-1 and as a team. He also specifically focused on making his students overcome their weaknesses

In original Naruto...our first or second interaction we saw between Kakashi and Guy shows that Guy was better at being a sensei. Guy saw his genin were not ready and held them back a year before entering the chunin exam. Team 7 was very immature mentally and physically. I wonder how the story would be if Kakashi let his team mature a year before entering Chunin exam

It would've been SO cool to see Sakura become a Genjutsu/healer. I'm actually disappointed it didn't happen. She's kinda more of a one-punch/healer. But if you add Genjutsu to that, it would make so much sense. Befuddle her enemies so she could punch the hell outta them in one hit.

I'd like to take this time to remind everyone that Kakashi chewed Iruka out when signing Team 7 up for the chunin exams when Iruka thought it was too early for them. Kakashi made it clear that Iruka had no room to criticize his teaching methods, saying quote "They aren't your students anymore, they're mine," Fast-forward to the chunin exams and when Lee is tapping into the 8 gates, Kakashi has the nerve to start criticizing Guy's teaching methods for teaching Lee such a dangerous technique, while also having his woefully underprepared students participating in the same environment and the only reason they managed to make it that far is mostly by sheer luck, lol.

Something to consider is why Kakashi was such a bad teacher, and I think the answer to that is Minato. Jiraiya said that Minato was such a prodigy he didn't really need any training, that meant Minato didn't know how to be a good teacher. Then, Minato's squad was on war time missions and frequently split up. Throw in that Minato died young and couldn't really guide Kakashi, and that even in Anbu, you had Itachi and Yamato as the closet people Kakashi might teach, and Kakashi really just had no good feedback to learn how to be a teacher from either his days as a student or a teacher. Even when he saw the rift between Sasuke and Naruto and went to Jiraiya for help, Jiraiya just said that it was no big deal and left Kakashi without any guidance.

Some great points. Asuma was probably was probably the best of the original groups sensai’s. He was extremely close to them and the team was emotionally a wreck after he died.

I think I can forgive tenten's loss to temari. tamari was not only one of the strongest genin, she also hard counters tenten. Hiruzen commented that she had perfect form, and distance, so she clearly was trained to be really good at throwing weapons. Unfortunately that'll only get you so far in this world. I wish tenten had more development in shippuden, but you could substitute tenten for almost all of the side characters in the konoha 13 and its still accurate. She's not the only one who gets side lined.

Even setting aside how Kakashi didn't teach Team 7 new jutsu, he could've at least expanded on sakura's chakra control and taught her about recognising and breaking free of genjutsu. He could've taught Naruto how to effectively use his shadow clones instead of just using them for the numbers advantage.