Quote Originally Posted by Drolyt View Post
Yeah, Gai seems to be going against the whole theme of passing the torch to the next generation, since the only member of the next generation stronger than Gai is Naruto (well, Sasuke too, but he's a traitor). Might have something to do with his youth obsession, but really Lee's performance has been underwhelming given what we've seen of Gai.
I wouldn't say that. Remember, that was Genin Lee. He's Chuunin now.

If you accept the movies as semi-fact, Lee can use 5 gates with no real harm, and can even mix in his drunken boxing.

I'd say Lee has at least as much potential as Gai. If not more. He just has a more linear progression to his ability.

I think it's more that we just haven't seen Lee enough lately to judge properly. I think he'd hold up as one of the more dangerous members of the Konoha 11.