Neji Hyuga was considered one of Konoha's prodigies in Naruto. After graduating the ninja academy, Neji joined Team 9 and trained alongside Rock Lee and Tenten. He strongly believed in destiny and loathed the Hyuga clan's two-branch system.
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Neji's worldview changed after he lost to Naruto during the Chunin Exams. As relationships improved between both branches of the Hyuga clan, Neji sought increased strength to protect the ones he loved. Before sacrificing himself to save Naruto during the Fourth Ninja War, Neji's prodigious strength allowed him to amass a deadly arsenal of unique jutsu.
10 The Hyuga's Gentle Fist Technique Targets An Enemy's Internal Organs
The Gentle Fist technique is a form of hand-to-hand combat unique to Hyuga clan members. Utilizing their Byakugan kekkei genkai, the Hyuga can see and target their enemy's chakra network. Gentle Fist leaves no marks on the body as it deals damage directly to a target's organs while also blocking their tenketsu, or chakra points.
Despite belonging to the branch family, the entire Huyga clan was forced to recognize Neji as a prodigy of the Gentle Fist style. His incredible reflexes and agility allowed him to overpower the strongest opponents at close range, rivaling the power of prominent Hyuga members like Hiashi, the clan head. While facing Hinata, Hiashi's daughter, Neji used the Gentle Fist to shut down each of her chakra points before nearly killing her.
9 The Eight Trigrams: Air Palm Weaponizes Chakra Wind Columns
The Eight Trigrams: Air Palm is a unique Hyuga technique that requires the Byakugan to locate an enemy's vital points. After thrusting their palm toward a target, the user charges a funnel of compressed air with their own chakra. This invisible, chakra-charged wind column slams into opponents, sweeping them off their feet, while simultaneously blocking their tenketsu.
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Like most members of his clan, Neji learned the Eight Trigrams: Air Palm early in his career as a shinobi. He often employed it against enemies while attacking at long range, effectively causing damage while limiting their ability to retaliate using offensive ninjutsu. As the technique also utilizes the Gentle Fist style, the Eight Trigrams: Air Palm also damages a target's internal organs.
8 Neji's Chakra Point Needle Halts His Enemy's Chakra Flow
Similar to the Gentle Fist style, the Chakra Point Needle disables an opponent's ability to use chakra. After locating a chakra point, the user delivers a two-fingered jab that immediately plugs the struck tenketsu. Its most proficient users can even perform this technique without activating the Byakugan.
Neji often incorporated the Chakra Point Needle when using Gentle Fist. This allowed him to deal damage to his opponent's organs while systematically shutting down their chakra pathways. While fighting against Hinata during the Chunin Exam, Neji's Chakra Point Needle rendered her attacks completely useless.
7 The Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation Provides Its User Absolute Defense
The Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation is a secret technique known only to the Hyuga clan's main branch. After emitting chakra from every tenketsu in their body, the user can block any attack before it hits by spinning rapidly. The resulting protective shield is capable of repelling attacks and dealing damage directly to enemies.
Despite the Palm Rotation being exclusive to the Hyuga's main branch, Neji was able to replicate the technique after only observing it. A true testament to his genius, Neji perfected his use of the attack and often used it in battle. The Palm Rotation saved Neji's life during his battle against Kidomaru, where he used the technique to effectively repel the Sound Ninja's 100-Percent-Accurate shot.
6 The Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palm Deals 64 Consecutive Chakra-Blocking Strikes
The Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms begins with the user envisioning themselves within the Trigram Seal. Using the Byakugan, they deliver a series of blinding strikes on their target, doubling the number of strikes with each set. Besides inflicting heavy damage, the Sixty-Four Palms shuts down their opponent's tenketsu to completely eliminate their ability to use chakra.
Similarly to the Palm Rotation, Neji learned the Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palm through simple observation. He could perform it while he was a genin, delivering the six sets of strikes in under a minute. As a Jonin, Neji improved the technique by doubling the number of strikes.
5 The Eight Trigrams: Air Wall Palm Doubles The Power Of Its Parent Technique
The Eight Trigrams: Air Wall Palm builds on its parent technique, the Air Palm, and requires two Byakugan users. By standing in proximity and performing a palm thrust together, the pair created a wall of chakra-infused air that assaults enemies at high speed. This air wall blocks enemy chakra points, deals heavy damage, and is large enough to take out multiple enemies at once while remaining completely undetectable.
After Neji repaired his fractured relationship with the Hyuga's main branch, he developed this technique alongside Hinata Hyuga during their training sessions. By combining their power, the pair proved an unstoppable team during the Fourth Ninja War. They used the Air Wall Palm to take out a small army of White Zetsu clones in a single blow.
4 The Gentle Fist: Body Blow Expels Neji's Chakra To Deliver Devastating Damage
Gentle Fist: Body Blow utilizes the Hyuga's unique ability to expel chakra from their tenketsu. Much like the Palm Rotation technique, the user weaponizes their own chakra by forcibly emitting it at their opponent. A user can use Body Blow to send enemies flying without striking them or to nullify the effects of enemy jutsu.
Neji used Gentle Fist: Body Blow in both aspects multiple times. He used it offensively against the White Zetsu Clones during the Ninja War, splitting them apart with the attack's severity. Also, Neji used this technique to escape Kisame Hoshigake's Water Prison by nullifying it using only his chakra.
3 Eight Trigrams: Hazan Strike Is Strong Enough To Split Mountains
The Eight Trigrams: Hazan Strike improves on its parent technique, the Air Palm, by allowing its user to expel a greater amount of chakra. With a single blow, the user emits a surge of dense chakra that sends their opponents flying. Depending on its user's strength and skill, Hazan Strike can even split mountains.
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While training as a Jonin, Neji developed the Eight Trigrams: Hazan Strike as a means to utilize Air Palm in close quarters. He often sent close-range opponents hurtling backward into large rocks, effectively splitting them on impact. This deadly technique is the strongest form of the Eight Trigrams: Air Palm.
2 The Eight Trigrams: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms Doubles Its Parent Technique In Strength And Speed
The Eight Trigrams: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms utilizes the Byakugan and the trigrams seal for offensive combat. By increasing the seal's range and the number of strikes, the user effectively doubles the power and duration of its parent technique, the Sixty-Four Palms. This increased number of tenketsu renders the target chakra-less and completely immobile.
Not only did he master its parent technique through observation but Neji also created the Eight Trigrams: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms technique while he was still only a genin. He used it in his fight against Kidomaru to eliminate hundreds of Kidomaru's spiders as they rained from above.
1 The Armed Primary Lotus: Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation Combines Team 9's Single Strongest Techniques
The Armed Primary Lotus: Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation utilizes the unique skill sets for each member of Konoha's Team 9. After Rock Lee binds Neji in the Primary Lotus, the latter begins the Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation in midair. As the pair hurtle toward their intended target, Tenten throws a string of explosive-tagged kunai into the mix. Any opponent unlucky enough to be caught in the technique's crossfire is completely destroyed.
By combining Tenten's weapon expertise, Rock Lee's Inner Gates technique, and Neji's kekkei genkai, the group collaboratively creates a chakra-shrouded rotating dome that explodes upon impact. Due to Neji's Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation repelling all external damage, he and Rock Lee are able to walk away from using this technique completely unharmed. Meanwhile, their opponent loses access to their chakra, their breath, and is completely singed.
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