Boruto: Naruto Next Generations shifted the focus from Naruto and the rest of the Konoha 11 to the newest heroes ready to carry the mantle of Leaf Shinobi. One of the Naruto sequel's standout talents is Sarada, the daughter of Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. Sarada aims to become the future Hokage just like Naruto did, and slowly seems to be working her way toward her ultimate goal. However, based on her legacy and the feats she's displayed so far, Sarada should be more powerful than she currently is -- with the potential to grow exponentially.

Sarada certainly has big boots to fill as the daughter of Konoha's strongest kunoichi -- and one of the most powerful Uchiha to ever live -- and an expert medical ninja. She may have struggled with unlocking and using the Sharingan at first but after a particularly intense fight with Boro of the Kara group, Sarada unlocked the third tomoe. A three-tomoe Sharingan is the highest level of maturity most Uchiha reach, meaning that all the enviable eyes' base abilities, including jutsu mimicry, movement tracing and genjutsu immunity are available to her. Despite its obvious boon, her eyes' maturation isn't her end all, be all. Sarada's physical strength and experience still need to catch up with her capabilities.

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Sarada, Sasuke, and Sakura have a family dinner in Boruto

Along with the cheat code that is the Uchiha bloodline, Boruto's Sarada also has the chakra control skills and medical ninjutsu that Sakura is drilling into her. The end goal of her training with Sakura should be the forbidden One Hundred Healing Jutsu, but even her journey toward attaining the forehead seal should give her significant buffs.

The first and most apparent should be the terrifying brute strength that Sakura and Tsunade were known for, which Sarada is already slowly appropriating. The second is the very fine chakra control that even Sasuke couldn't master at her age. The ability to optimize her jutsus' chakra consumption and deliver devastating melee hits gives her the best of both of her parents' worlds.

Sarada's base Sharingan alone, along with her brute strength and future Hundred Healings mark, would be more than enough power to contend for the title of Hokage. But that might not be all she'd have to work with; Masashi Kishimoto himself has teased a Mangekyo Sharingan-wielding Sarada. With the constant regeneration Hundred Healings would afford her, Sarada might be able to offset the worst of the Mangekyo Sharingan's effects, or at least use her new abilities with less discomfort than other Uchiha. That would give her yet another strength buff with the Susanoo, not to mention the unique abilities she'd unlock in each Mangekyo Sharingan eye.

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In Sarada's case, a full-bodied Susanoo might be unnecessary anyway. The trend in Boruto has seen the series moving away from kaiju-like monsters as the absolute show of power. Jigen's battle against Naruto and Sasuke's gigantic forms proved how obsolete they had become against the Otsutsuki, an enemy Sarada might have to continually face. Like the other members of Team 7, Sarada might be more interested in jutsus that increase her strength drastically without necessarily increasing her size.

If the rules of a Rasengan are anything to go by, compressing even a fraction of a full-bodied Susanoo's chakra into an almost form-fitting avatar would lead to explosive force from her most casual of movements. Refraining from using a massive Susanoo would also further reduce the risk of Mangekyo Sharingan blindness, if her One Hundred Healings Mark doesn't eliminate it completely.

None of this has been confirmed in the Boruto manga so for now, Sarada's "full potential" remains the fans' wildest dreams. Just imagining how impressive she might be makes her usually lackluster showings all the more maddening, especially since she's arguably more talented than both her parents at the same age. It'll be a tall order to match up to special cases like Boruto and Kawaki but their Otsutsukification doesn't justify how far behind they've left Sarada. After all, the future Hokage would be expected to handle threats approaching their power level.