I don't see the big deal, the landscape of the game has changed so much that even with his better skills he won't be that much of a better choice than the current meta ninjas:

-Mystery is still dodgeable and unable to remove any kind of inmunity, its CD increase is lame compared to the likes of kabuto sage whose can do it AOE and multiple times a round.

-Standard undodgeable, but seems its chances of combo are lower (one extra target means +damage, but also means ninjas like sasuke rinne BT will be able to shut him faster and easier).

-chaser literally does nothing thats worth mentioning.

-passive 1 makes him basically minato edo, except without the defense+tag+ignition debuff.

-passive 2 is his real highlight, and i think the Y one is superior as long as you are not fighting against rinnengan sasuke. We still need evidence on that "even round damage" +2 passive to see which one is more worth.

So yeah, in short, rinne sasuke counters him hard, and he is still extremely reliant on standard damage. Nothing to worry about, worse things have already came...

he is also inmune to interrupt with passive 2 +2, which is useful when hes not faster but yeah, fear too.

Realistically, If you know your opponent is using naruto you can just switch sasuke's skill, his chaos passive is useful most times but not necesarily the best all of them, theres better chakra batteries out there, and when hes not going for damage you dont really need the chakra at all. Also, you know inmunity is a thing right? most of the late ninja releases always come with inmunity as passive, sasuke's chaos isn't really all that much of a deal when 75% of your team is inmune, this also makes the fear passive more relevant on the other hand.

Additionally, i said it was a counter for naruto, but didnt say it was a counter to the whole meta, we don't even know yet how good will naruto perform in practice, yet you (talking not specifically about you btw) are getting way more upset out of this than you should, that's all i was saying with my post.

If you want to think theres absolutely no counter for him and the game is doomed, how sad for you, just burying yourself in despair out of nothing. The game already has worse ones in (repeating myself).

well, i don't know you, but i own him, and even without all his gold skills he performs really good on what he is supposed to be doing. No all ninjas in the game are intended for 1 vs 1 or specific strats like long battles, some of them are better for PVP short battles (Arena) others for PVP long battles (matsuri) others for team battles like ranked battle or gnw (3 vs 3) or bonds (2vs2), and PVE battles are a complete different playground, and some free ninjas do even better than some paid ones from time to time (exams, nature training, 9tails, even jinch rescue).

Every character has their most effective uses in the game, just because you don't know how or are unable to think of how to, doesn't make them bad, that just means you lack wit.

Learn to work around what you have or you will be doomed.

it c*so trigger with his mystery, which completely leaves sosp without reset for that round, but thats just the best case... the real point of the fear passive is to prevent him from getting any new standards which is what naruto gets with his passive 2 Y (his actual broken passive), without extra standards hes way less of a threat, as well as scales way less, leechs way less, less chances to reset (which considering sosp has now slightly less chances to combo, yeah, it matters), seems like you didn't fully read his skill set before answering me tbh.

Sasuke's triggering chances depend somewhat in the user's combo rate on him, so if hes your pos1 and your opponent is not a whale, you will have fairly high chances to cause fear.

Btw, a group mate told me yesterday shisui susano'o is also a possible good counter for him, since mystery lockdown for two rounds, which sounds about correct, but we all know most of narus damage will possibly come from his standard anyway.

PD: The point of my comments never was "naruto bad, sasuke good" or something like that like you seem to think i was implying, being a counter doesn't mean it's better.