The Deva Path controlled repulsive and attractive forces, allowing it to use Planetary Devastation and Shinra Tensei.
The Asura Path could summon weapons that did not exist in the shinobi world.
The Naraka Path could summon the King of Hell and revive fallen Pain bodies.
The Human Path could capture spirit bodies and extract their memories.
The Preta Path could absorb chakra of almost every nature.
The Animal Path could summon several exceptionally powerful summoning beasts.
The abilities of the Six Paths of Pain encompassed nearly all of the Rinnegan's powers. True to its name, it could reverse life and death and command the cycle of reincarnation.
For several days straight, Zou Hyuga had studied the Rinnegan's abilities, even implanting it to experience them himself.
Only after actually replacing his eye with the Rinnegan did he discover that its abilities were not so easy to use. Even setting aside rejection, the chakra consumption alone was enough to overwhelm most ninja.
If a certain white-haired ninja had received the Rinnegan, his problems would have gone well beyond growing thinner by the day.
Furthermore, using the Rinnegan's dojutsu was by no means easy. Even Nagato had needed years of effort to adapt to the Rinnegan and unleash its true combat potential.
Still, with help from Nagato, its former vessel, he could control the Pain Puppets.
But neither his precision nor his power came anywhere close to Nagato's mastery, partly because he was unfamiliar with it, and partly because he did not have a complete pair of Rinnegan.
Zou Hyuga also could not use the powerful Rinnegan dojutsu he remembered.
Never mind dojutsu on the level of Tengai Shinsei or Limbo: Border Jail-he could not even use Planetary Devastation. A single Rinnegan fell far short of a complete pair.
This made him further