I am still watching Naruto. Rock Lee is such a ridiculous meme character. It has gotten reall bad now, when they tried to rescue Sasuke.
>every single other character in the arc has a very reasonable travel time>Kakashi runs after them, but first has to summon dogs to get their scent, before he can follow>the sand ninjas are delayed, because the leaf ninja squad were rushing to go as fast as possible>all of the 1vs1 fights happened, because the sound ninjas always left someone behind to delay>Rock Lee after not even being able to walk when the leaf squad left the village, somehow teleported right to Naruto and completely missed all of the previous fights, injured half-dead team mates and with no way of tracking anyoneI don't know why people praise Rock Lee. He feels artifically inserted in. The story would be better without him. A Naruto & Gara reunion would hace been better. Rock Lee had nothing interesting to say to Gara, which was his only shot to prove he's more than a comic relief character, which he isnt even doing well.
>>280207723 (OP)What about his ability to spin with his chakra, manipulate his chakra to divert ranged projectiles and his gentle fist fighting style? He is a clearly superior close-ranged fighter than Rock Lee. His defensive potential is extreme and gentle fist enables him to easily beat superior opponents. Rock Lee cant do anything close to that. He is just fast, but that's it.