Taijutsu is one of the three main jutsu schools in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. Techniques within this category have an important distinction from the other two, as taijutsu requires no chakra or hand seals to perform. Simply characterized as hand-to-hand combat, the strength of these jutsu are directly proportional to their user's natural ability and knowledge of martial arts.
Although most methods of fighting require chakra in the shinobi world, taijutsu provides its practitioners with the ability to gain an arsenal of deadly jutsu simply by training their bodies. Not bound to simple kicks and punches, feats of extraordinary strength can be accessed using this style; some of its most proficient users, in turn, are recognized as the strongest shinobi to ever live.
10 Leaf Whirlwind Flusters Foes With A Flurry Of Kicks
During Leaf Whirlwind, a user delivers a series of high and low kicks to overwhelm even the strongest opponents. The movements are so quick that even Sharingan users fail to react quickly enough to avoid them. The initial kick damages the user's opponent head-on, but also serves as a distraction for the ensuing ones.
Leaf Whirlwind is a basic yet brilliant technique that strikes opponents repeatedly in several areas. It evades foresight by the Sharingan and cannot be blocked with the Byakugan, as it employs no chakra usage. By keeping them guessing and moving with enough speed to intimidate them, victims of the Leaf Whirlwind can do nothing but wait until the user finishes the technique.
9 The Dynamic Entry Weaponizes Confidence & Intimidation
The Dynamic Entry technique sends the user flying toward an opponent, kicking directly at their face. Often, a kunai distracts from the kick, resulting in the opponent taking a direct facial blow. The user's damage output is proportional to their resolve, confidence, and physical strength.
As the shinobi profession relies on subtle movements and hide-in-wait techniques, Dynamic Entry is an inconceivable, brazen attack. Its strength is linked to the user's confidence, making it deadlier the more determined its user is. Might Guy and Rock Lee combined this technique to create the Double Dynamic Entry, multiplying its damage to contend with the Akatsuki's strongest members.
8 Absolute Fang Over Fang Serves As The Inuzuka Clan's Ultimate Coordination Jutsu
Absolute Fang Over Fang is created once the Inuzuka combine with their ninken to form a double-headed wolf. Spinning rapidly at untraceable speeds, they rip and shred opponent's using bared teeth and claws. The Absolute Fang Over Fang endlessly pursues targets before cutting them to ribbons within a vacuum-like vortex.
Its strength, size, and heat-seeking ability make this technique unavoidable by most conventional means. It's strong enough to wipe out multiple opponents or sever unbreakable techniques like Sakon and Udon's Double-Body Fusion. As a genin, Kiba used it to dent the Rashomon gates, an impenetrable defense; its power only increases with practice and training.
7 The Eight Trigrams: Air Palm Turns Air Into A Deadly, Chakra-Cancelling Weapon
Eight Trigransm: Air Palm utilizes high-velocity air funnels to strike opponents from afar. Using Byakugan to pinpoint vitals and chakra points, the resulting chakra-force sweeps opponents off their feet, cuts off their chakra on impact, and directly damages their internal organs.
While its combination with Gentle Fist make it versatile, its invisibility and speed make Eight Trigrams: Air Palm deadly. It functions as a long-distance taijutsu attack to limit enemy mobility and offense. It can prevent an enemy's ninjutsu from afar or eliminate an opposing medical-nin's ability to heal their allies. When combined with other users, the size and strength of the Air Palm can eliminate droves of enemies before they know what hit them.
6 Kimimoro's Dance Of The Camellia Simultaneously Kills Hundreds Of Shadow Clones
Kimimaro could freely manipulate his bones to incorporate them into his attack style due to his kekkei genaki. During the Dance of the Camillia, several bones extrude from his body in various places; by engaging in a dance, Kimimaro repeatedly stabs his opponent in a flurry of unpredictable movements. His speed creates afterimages to confuse targets, while the irregularity of blows leaves them guessing.
The Dance of the Camellia is made especially deadly as Kimimaro increases his bone density. He can use it to wield impenetrable armor or unbreakable blades. Invulnerable to attack, he can increase the speed and power of the dance by activating Orochimaru's curse seal. Kimimaro single-handedly defeated 100 corporeal clones using this technique.
5 The Earthen Rock Fist Adds Power & Density To Everyday Punches
The Earthen Rock Fist coats the user's arm in rock to increase the density of their punches. Their strength is proportional to the arm's weight, which can be increased at the user's will to maximize damage output. This technique can encase the whole body, protecting the user from damage, and nullify most Elemental Release damage.
Together with basic taijutsu, Earthen Rock Fist enables its user to make devastating, decisive blows with minimal effort. Akin to taking direct impact from a falling boulder, any unlucky enemy will experience broken bones, crushed limbs, and ruptured internal organs.
4 The Heavenly Foot Of Pain Employs The Power Of Heels To Deal Deadly Damage
The Heavenly Foot Of Pain begins after the user leaps into the air. After concentrating their chakra into a single heel, an explosion and crater erupt from the ground upon impact. This technique is proportional to the user's base strength and can be combined with chakra to make it especially deadly.
Used to eliminate enemies, destroy structures, and obliterate entire battlefields, this technique allows its user to create cataclysmic damage. Using the sun to create a blind spot, the user can drop onto the heads of unsuspecting foes, killing them instantly; those who manage to get away are then caught in the unavoidable damage circumference surrounding this technique.
3 Boil Release: Unrivaled Strength Utilizes Steam To Empower Punches
Boil Release: Unrivaled Strength is a ninjutsu accessible only to the Five Tails jinchuriki. By increasing his chakra's temperature to a boiling point, Han generates steam which pours from his body. It increases the dexterity and density of all physical attacks, maximizing Han's strength and speed the instant the technique is used.
As Boil Release: Unrivaled Strength relies on chakra production, its use by a jinchuriki with near limitless chakra makes it an overpowered taijutsu form. Han overpowered Naruto, matching his strength and speed despite the latter hosting the strongest Tailed Beast. If used on anyone else, an unwary victim would easily fall victim to this technique.
2 The Eight Inner Gates Provides Master Taijutsu-Users Ultimate Power
The Eight Inner Gates Formation allows users to bypass natural chakra limiters to exponentially increase their strength. Trading in strength for bodily damage, the user gains incredible speed and untold power to overwhelm the strongest of foes. Its most proficient users were capable of overcoming strong kekkei genkai, such as Gaara's Sand Defense and Madara as the Ten Tails jinchuriki.
Any taijutsu master can use the Inner Gates, even without chakra. Rock Lee could open the first five gates as a chunin despite never learning to infuse his chakra. The first gate, the Gate of Opening, doubles the users power; every gate afterward increases strength and speed ten-fold. A user can open the Eighth Gate for untold, legendary power at the cost of their life.
1 The Hyuga's Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms Turns Off Chakra & Ruptures Internal Organs
The Hyuga's Gentle Fist style is the ultimate form of taijutsu, as it incorporates their kekkei genkai, the Byakugan. After pinpointing their opponent's chakra points, the Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palm technique can be used to simultaneously cut off their entire chakra network while dealing direct damage to their internal organs.
Attacks made during Sixty-Four Palms damage the opponent's organs, leaving no distinguishable marks on their victim. It shuts off chakra, limiting their ability to attack and heal; it is capable of nullifying the Eight Inner Gates Formation as a result. Without chakra, a target of the Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four is left helpless as their organs begin failing, resulting in their unavoidable death.