hahaha i was just about to post "HE KILLED ALL HIS POKEMON!!", this was less a ninja battle and more a pokemon battle, but you guys beat me to it....
This also gets me nervous, i like the crazy powers, but they are not ninja anymore are they? I mean this is what happened to Dragonball Z that made it get "less good" in my opinion. It started with little Goku who was basically a gifted monkey Ninja (he still had to punch people and hit them with a pole and fly on nimbus cloud), who would fight regular people, and clobber them for sure, but still nothing earth shattering, then it built up to no one doing anything physical (except dodge maybe, then they could fly, destroy planets, come back to life) and just doing crazy energy blasts etc... Naruto started as gifted ninja, they needed kunai knives and fought regular folk, and they used their powers more as tricks (substitution jutsu, shadow clones) but now they aren't fighting hand to hand, just summoning and creating energy balls to throw at god level super villains, its not ninja battles anymore.... If he has to turn into 9-tails to fight a mutant monster Sauske it gets a little boring, dont get me wrong i love the series and i like the super powers they have, but they aren't ninja anymore, and I am worried about the exponential power gains they need to keep having a la Dragonball..... I mean Hakoge (spelling) power levels were feared and honored in their world, if you have 80 people running around tougher than the Hakoge's then that is just silly.