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They mention nothing about Summoning Jutsu in the exam and Naruto learned this
jutsu before the exam.  
Even if Gamabunta would not want to fight for Naruto, why didn't he at least
try to use that jutsu?

Did I miss something? Did they actually say that Summoning was not allowed in
the exam?


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Why didn't Naruto use Summoning Jutsu in Chuunin Exam?


Firstly, lets make a correction. Naruto learned the Summoning Jutsu, not
before the exam, but only before the third round, prior to his fight with
Neji. So he would have only had one opportunity to use the Jutsu during the
exams, during his fight with Neji.

It is never EXPLICITLY stated, as far as I know, why Naruto didn't use
Summoning Jutsu to summon Gamabunta during the fight, but let me give you a
different perspective. Why would he want to summon Gamabunta in his fight
against Neji?

  1. He had a personal reason to fight Neji. He probably wanted to beat Neji on his own, 1v1, to prove his point to Neji. Probably wouldn't feel great to beat Neji because he had a giant frog step on him.
  2. It would have been impractical. Gamabunta is HUGE. Gamabunta would probably have filled the entirety of the stadium they fought in. Even if Gamabunta did fight, he sure as hell wouldn't have been able to do so without destroying the stadium to hit a single tiny human target.
  3. Like you mentioned, Gamabunta probably wouldn't have even wanted to fight for Naruto. The only reason he fought with Naruto against Gaara later is because he knew about the One Tail Beast and Gamakichi convinced him to.
  4. Naruto had literally only used the technique once successfully in his training with Jiraiya, under threat of falling to his death. He probably didn't have confidence he could use it again. This is evidenced by the fact that in his fight with Gaara later, he only successfully summoned Gamabunta again because he was about to die, failing the first time by summoning Gamakichi. Naruto isn't able to reliably summon Gamabunta for quite a while in the series, summoning Gamakichi and Gamatatsu on multiple occasions.


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