Naruto's 'Toad Confrontation Chant' Is Secretly The Series' Most Powerful Attack

"Naruto" and its sequel series "Boruto" in their entirety consist of just over 780 chapters adapted into more than 1000 anime episodes. Throughout this extensive story, author Masashi Kishimoto has introduced a fair share of powerful characters capable of wielding techniques with catastrophic potential. Among these, there's a valid argument to be made that the strongest attack in "Naruto" history is not necessarily any one of the numerous abilities villains have deployed with world-ending potential, but a technique a couple of toad sages named Fukasaku and Shima use called Demonic Illusion: Toad Confrontation Chant.

Activating the Toad Confrontation Chant requires performing a composition handed down in their society. While theoretically any toad can use the ability, only Fukasaku and Shima know how to sing the composition properly. Once they've begun performing the song — which first requires some set-up — anyone who hears it will fall under their thrall and become incapable of movement unless its users wish otherwise.

Whereas characters have at some point broken free of other contenders for the series' formidable technique like the Infinite Tsukuyomi, nobody in "Naruto" history has overcome the Toad Confrontation Chant. Since all it takes to fall victim to the ability is hearing it and nobody has found a way to break free from it yet, there's good reason to believe the Toad Confrontation Chant is the single strongest attack in the "Naruto" universe.

To be fair to the "Naruto" fanbase, Demonic Illusion: Toad Confrontation Chant usually isn't the first ability most fans think of when tasked with identifying the franchise's most powerful technique. That said, there are plenty who have proposed that the frog song is, in fact, deadliest, to the extent that in at least a couple of online polls it comes out ahead of typically more popular Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Two threads on a popular "Naruto" forum Fanverse.org, for example, polled users to pick between the Infinite Tsukuyomi and the Toad Confrontation Chant as the franchise's number one ability. Both times the Toad Confrontation Chant came out ahead among Fanverse.org users. Posts by users defending this choice frequently cite the fact that, while their effects are similar, the Toad Confrontation Chant is more useful against large numbers of enemies and therefore stronger.

On Reddit too, users like xaviorpwner and KhaoticTwist have shared arguments for why the frog song is the strongest attack in "Naruto." Like countless other elements from throughout the series, the Toad Confrontation Chant may be goofy on the outside, but that exterior belies its immense power.