Naruto: Every Jutsu That Can Tame a Tailed Beast, Ranked

In Naruto, Tailed Beasts aren’t creatures you simply defeat; they’re forces of nature with their own grudges, memories, and centuries of pent-up rage. Bringing one to heel takes more than raw power. It takes chakra chains that nullify a beast from the inside, wood techniques that overpower it physically, eyes that hijack its will, and sealing methods built to shut it down entirely.

Some of these approaches actually earn a beast’s cooperation, while others just brute-force the problem. Here’s every jutsu in Naruto capable of taming a tailed beast, ranked by how completely and how gently it actually pulls that off.

7 Chibaku Tensei Buries a Rampaging Beast Under a Small Moon

When Nagato needed to shut down Naruto’s six-tailed form fast during the Pain Assault Arc, he skipped subtlety and just buried it. Chibaku Tensei turns its target into a magnet for the surrounding earth, piling rock and debris into a sphere big enough to entomb a tailed beast form, the same trick Hagoromo and Hamura used to seal the Ten-Tails inside the moon. The catch is that it’s a blunt-force option, not real taming, and Naruto proved as much by muscling out of it at eight tails, which is why it closes out this list.

6 Outer Path Chakra Chains Drag a Rampaging Beast Back to Its Cage

Once Nagato or Obito Uchiha got their hands on the Rinnegan’s Outer Path, tailed beasts basically became retrievable objects. Chakra chains shoot out, latch onto the target, and physically haul it toward the Demonic Statue to be resealed or handed to a new Jinchuriki. Obito’s version was even stronger than Nagato’s, dragging multiple beasts around like they weighed nothing at all. It’s brutally effective for capture, which earns its spot here, but it’s really built for extraction rather than the ongoing, cooperative control the methods ranked above it manage.

5 Sharingan’s Eye Contact Turns a Tailed Beast Into a Puppet

There’s something genuinely unsettling about a giant fox going still because someone looked it dead in the eye. Madara and Obito both used their Sharingan to slip into a Tailed Beast’s subconscious and take the wheel, forcing it to fight, move, or freeze on command, its own eyes shifting to show the Sharingan’s pattern as proof. It’s control from a distance; no chains needed. It ranks below the physical methods mainly because it’s exhausting to hold, and only a couple of Uchiha have ever pulled it off against Kurama.

4 Wood Release: Wood Human Technique Wrestles a Beast to a Standstill

Give Hashirama Senju some earth and water chakra to play with, and he could grow an actual god out of wood, big enough to match a tailed beast punch for punch. The Wood Human Technique conjures a towering wooden statue strong enough to physically restrain something Kurama-sized and pin it down while another jutsu finishes the taming. It’s less finesse, more raw scale. That’s also why it sits mid-list, since it subdues a beast physically but usually needs pairing with Kakuan’s technique to actually strip its chakra away.

3 Kakuan’s Bliss-Bringing Hands Cut Off a Tailed Beast’s Chakra

This technique has maybe the longest name in the series, but what it does is refreshingly simple: touch a tailed beast, or its Jinchuriki, with the right hand seal, and its chakra just switches off. Hashirama and later Yamato both used it, usually ringed by wooden pillars, to yank a rampaging beast back under control almost instantly. It doesn’t wear the beast down first; it just shuts the tap. That immediacy earns it a top-three spot, though it needs setup and proximity that Kushina’s chains never required.

2 Tailed Beast Sealing Techniques Created All Jinchuriki

Every other jutsu on this list assumes a beast is already sealed inside a human, and that took its own jutsu. The Eight Trigrams Sealing Style is the classic vessel-seal, developed by the Uzumaki clan, used by Minato to lock Kurama’s chakra into baby Naruto. Pair it with the forbidden Dead Demon Consuming Seal, which rips a beast’s soul out at the caster’s cost, and Kurama’s other half ended up inside Minato. It’s number two because it’s the actual foundation everything else builds on: no seal, no Jinchuriki, no beast to tame.

1 Adamantine Sealing Chains Keep Even Kurama Leashed From Within

Kushina didn’t just seal Kurama; she flat-out dominated him from inside her own mind. The Adamantine Sealing Chains are pure Uzumaki Chakra turned into unbreakable, Chakra-nullifying rope, and once they wrap around a tailed beast, resistance stops mattering fast. Kushina used them so well that she never lost control to Kurama, not once, in her entire life as his Jinchuriki. Naruto later inherited a taste of that power through her leftover chakra. Nothing else here produces that kind of total, lasting command, which is exactly why it tops the ranking.

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