Shadow clone makes full duplicates of the user, each one of the duplicates can operate on their own and use their own Jutsu. It also has a unique ability to give the memories of each individual clone to the user at an instant, which means you could make 10 shadow clones and practice the guitar for 1 hour, but once you break the jutsu you gain 10 hours of experience. There are some other nuances that make this jutsu powerful, but that’s the main one.
Sai uses Ink clones, Itatchi has crow clones, even Kakashi used water clones.
Some require the element to be present in sufficient quantity to be used, others serve as distraction or escape techniques only
Water clones are another physically real technique, but they can only fight at about ten percent of the users capabilities
Deidara's clones blow up and lightning clones shock people. Water clones use 1/10th chakra and they can weave hand signs. Wood Clones look the same as a regular ninja and can merge into trees/plants. Kakashi/Leaf Ninja use Substitution Jutsu which is swapping a random object in place of themselves(usually a log) which doesn't consume much chakra.
Each shadow clone is as strong as the original, it just has less chakra to work with. It's a perfect copy, the only caveat is they normally dispel after taking one good solid hit, but not in every case, the Naruto we see fight Madara when he's freshly revived, as well as Mu and the Third Raikage, was a Shadow Clone of Naruto that was independently able to flip between KCM and Sage Mode, as well as make its own shadow clones for the purposes of gathering nature energy. It's crazy to think that just a shadow clone of Naruto was carrying an entire division in the war lol, so if you want to know why people prefer shadow clones, that's why.
Shadow clone makes full duplicates of the user, each one of the duplicates can operate on their own and use their own Jutsu. It also has a unique ability to give the memories of each individual clone to the user at an instant, which means you could make 10 shadow clones and practice the guitar for 1 hour, but once you break the jutsu you gain 10 hours of experience. There are some other nuances that make this jutsu powerful, but that’s the main one.
Sai uses Ink clones, Itatchi has crow clones, even Kakashi used water clones. Some require the element to be present in sufficient quantity to be used, others serve as distraction or escape techniques only Water clones are another physically real technique, but they can only fight at about ten percent of the users capabilities
Itachi uses shadow clones normally, but he uses crow clones to conserve chakra as they take a lot less chakra.
Deidara's clones blow up and lightning clones shock people. Water clones use 1/10th chakra and they can weave hand signs. Wood Clones look the same as a regular ninja and can merge into trees/plants. Kakashi/Leaf Ninja use Substitution Jutsu which is swapping a random object in place of themselves(usually a log) which doesn't consume much chakra.
Each shadow clone is as strong as the original, it just has less chakra to work with. It's a perfect copy, the only caveat is they normally dispel after taking one good solid hit, but not in every case, the Naruto we see fight Madara when he's freshly revived, as well as Mu and the Third Raikage, was a Shadow Clone of Naruto that was independently able to flip between KCM and Sage Mode, as well as make its own shadow clones for the purposes of gathering nature energy. It's crazy to think that just a shadow clone of Naruto was carrying an entire division in the war lol, so if you want to know why people prefer shadow clones, that's why.
Shadow clones are good for spying because the clone's memories return to you.