Boruto Confirms Madara Uchiha Did What the Otsutsuki Couldn't — The Only Shinobi to Master This Power

If you want the TL;DR on who still breaks the power curve in Naruto and Boruto, it is Madara Uchiha, and it is not close. Across Naruto, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, and even Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, nobody has matched how completely he bent Nature Transformation to his will. Some legends touched all five basic elements. Madara went past that and kept going.

Madara is the only shinobi to master 10 Nature Transformations

Plenty of villains became icons in this series, but Madara sits in his own tier. Talent plus terrifying follow-through. He did not stop at the basics, and yes, some of what he picked up came from very non-natural methods, but the end result is still the end result: 10 different Nature Transformations under his belt and nobody in Boruto has joined him in that club.

• Fire Release: His natural affinity and arguably the gold standard for fire-style in the franchise. No surprise there for an Uchiha.
• Water Release: Not his home element, but he used it with surgical precision when he wanted to.
• Earth Release: Part of his well-documented swiss-army-knife toolkit.
• Wind Release: Another piece of his all-five-basics mastery.
• Lightning Release: Rounds out the five basics he fully controlled.
• Yin Release: As the Ten-Tails jinchuriki, he tapped into the spiritual side of chakra and could fire off devastating, lightning-like attacks on top of everything else.
• Yang Release: That same jinchuriki power-up cranked his physical capabilities to absurd levels.
• Yin-Yang Release: He weaponized it in nasty ways, like turning his will and White Zetsu into those black receivers that let him puppeteer targets.
• Storm Release: A combo of Water and Lightning Release. Given what he already had, it is pretty easy to see how he got there.
• Wood Release: The curveball. Hashirama Senju is the only natural-born user, but Madara literally grafted stolen Hashirama cells and then spent years honing it until his Wood Release almost rivaled Hashirama himself.

That last one is the eyebrow-raiser, but it is also the point: even when he did not acquire a technique the clean way, he still mastered it. Between his monstrous chakra, durability, and raw power, surpassing him was basically a non-starter.

Why his dominance hits different

Other prodigies exist. Minato, Hashirama, Itachi, Naruto, Sasuke — all monsters in their own lanes. Madara still towers over the field. He was not just the guy who perfected the Sharingan and stacked transformations; he was also a tactician who changed the map. Literally. He co-founded Konohagakure with Hashirama and embodied what the shinobi ideal looks like when you turn every dial to max.

And that is before you get into the rest of his kit: Mangekyo Sharingan, Rinnegan, and, again, becoming the jinchuriki of the original Tailed Beast, the Ten-Tails. Even when he was not operating at 100 percent and was revived with Edo Tensei, he steamrolled battlefields. It is ridiculous.

Where Boruto stands

As of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations and Two Blue Vortex, nobody has shown up with a Nature Transformation resume that can go one-for-one with Madara. Until someone does, he is still the benchmark everyone gets measured against.

So, is Madara Uchiha the franchise’s true top dog, or do you think someone edges him on pure talent? I have my answer, but I am curious to hear yours.

If you want to revisit the run that made all this legend-building possible, Naruto: Shippuden is streaming on Crunchyroll.