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During the fight with Naruto, Pain is not able to resurrect any of the 6 Pains
after the Outer Path Pain is defeated by Naruto.

Why doesn't Pain have multiple back up dead bodies with the chakra rods that
can be used as alternatives under such conditions?

Otherwise just by having spare dead bodies he can perform the Outer Path Jutsu
himself and summon back the defeated Pains like what the Outer Path pain does
during the fight.


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Why doesn't Pain have some spare dead Bodies?


Pain **does** have bodies in reserve in the event he needs them. During Pain's
assault on Konoha, [Inoichi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Inoichi_Yamanaka)
used his clan's justu to go through the mind of
[Yūdachi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Y%C5%ABdachi). Yūdachi is a genin from
the village in which Pain lives, whom was captured and sent to Konoha by
[Jiraiya](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Animal_Path).

While traversing through Yūdachi's mind, Inoichi came across a memory in which
Yūdachi and another genin were transporting bodies to Pain's tower.

> He probed Yūdachi's mind, rapidly going through his memories before arriving
> at the revelation that Pain had requested of Yūdachi: dead bodies

The body that is seen within this memory ends up being the replacement of
[Animal Path](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Animal_Path) that was defeated by
Jiraiya. Given how it was Jiraiya who sent Yūdachi to Konoha, this memory is
long before the defeat of the original Animal Path. This is why Pain was able
to recover from the loss of the Animal Path so quickly.

Now... as to having backups with the black receivers. It is possible these
said backup bodies have the black receivers already in them, but as they are
never show otherwise, we may never know. However, there are a few likely
reasons to why Pain did not attempt to summon his backup bodies during his
battle with Naruto

**Animal path defeated (again)**  
The Animal Path is shown summoning the other five paths early in the Pain
Assault arc. So Pain was very well capable of calling in backups. However,
Naruto defeated the Animal Path fairly early in the fight. Due to this path
being defeated, Pain lost his way of summoning.

**Focusing his chakra**  
The black receivers in the paths allow Pain to transmit his chakra over long
distances in order to control the [six
paths](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Six_Paths_of_Pain). When Pain completely
destroyed Konoha, he severed the connections to other paths to focus his all
of chakra into performing the justu.

> Some of the Six Paths Techniques are very chakra-taxing, and in order to use
> them Nagato must either bring the respective body closer to his position or
> alternatively cut off control of the other five Paths and focus all of his
> chakra into the one.

Also, one of the weaknesses of the six paths is that each path has a single
ability. Prior knowledge, such as facing them battle, gives you an upper hand
in taking them down.

> The greatest weakness of his Six Paths of Pain is that each body has only
> one primary ability; if an enemy has prior knowledge of what body does what,
> they stand a better chance of defeating the Paths

Pain saw how strong Naruto was, and therefore needed to play his cards right.
As Naruto took out the paths one-by-one, rather than calling in backup, Pain
distributed the chakra he regained from defeated paths to strengthen the
remaining paths.


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