Why doesn't Kakashi use his copy ability that often?


Kakashi is known as "the copy cat ninja". The Ninjas from the other countries
call Kakashi the Copy Cat Ninja because of his Sharingan and how he uses it
for his advantage (Copying moves). But he does not use his power to copy very
often (or at least not anymore). It is only shown around 3-4 times that he
actually copies and uses it against somebody.

Why does he not use this power more often?




What everyone was saying was partially correct. The Sharingan is a kekkei-
genkai made for the Uchiha Clan. Since Kakashi isn't native to this clan, he's
only able to use his Sharingan after once in awhile. As said before, he used
it in the beginning of the series and was out for about a week or two from
using too much chakra.

Consumption of all of your chakra will cause you to die.

Now with his Mangekyo Sharingan, he cannot use it much. The example that comes
quickly to my head is when Kakashi and Naruto were chasing Deidara during the
Gaara Retrieval arc. Kakashi specifically quoted that, "We have to end this
soon. I can only activate the Mangekyo probably one more time."

In the current manga, he can only keep up with using his Mangekyo Sharingan
with the help from the Kyuubi's aura/chakra.

**It consumes way too much chakra for him**.




What everyone was saying was partially correct. The Sharingan is a kekkei-
genkai made for the Uchiha Clan. Since Kakashi isn't native to this clan, he's
only able to use his Sharingan after once in awhile. As said before, he used
it in the beginning of the series and was out for about a week or two from
using too much chakra.

Consumption of all of your chakra will cause you to die.

Now with his Mangekyo Sharingan, he cannot use it much. The example that comes
quickly to my head is when Kakashi and Naruto were chasing Deidara during the
Gaara Retrieval arc. Kakashi specifically quoted that, "We have to end this
soon. I can only activate the Mangekyo probably one more time."

In the current manga, he can only keep up with using his Mangekyo Sharingan
with the help from the Kyuubi's aura/chakra.

**It consumes way too much chakra for him**.

