Yes. CST though is a completely different story, Nagato can simply choose to deactivate all the Paths and have Deva simply flatten everything (it still is the single most destructive attack in the manga), and this distance doesn't help Naruto "/Īnother issue is Naruto still has zero way to take out Cerberus. Naruto only made 12 clones btw, yes Chibaku Ten'sei is a non-factor in this match.
To make matters worse, RM senses emotions which Nagato's summons and The Paths lack as they are dead entities, secondly the Chameleons invisibility is not a technique but a "natural" physically hides itself and requires a barrier technique (or smell) to locate it. Naruto failed to sense the Chameleon or Nagato when he hid in it. Although, this fight had negative feedback from most fans, the ones that had some background in art actually praised it. But the particular scenes of the Naruto vs Pain fight I am referring to are in episode 167, where Naruto goes berzerk after seeing Hinata smashed to the ground what followed was a chaotic sequence of blows exchange by two powerful monsters. Pain frankly his has better endurance feats as he also had to focus and control the Paths at all time.while Naruto simply spams clones and lets them loose In the ‘Pain arc’ of Naruto Shipudden the fight against the main villain spanned almost 7 episodes. Pain was fighting for hours as well.then used a life shortening technique.then fought Naruto.then the Kyuubi and still had enough kick in him to resurrect everyone he killed, Pain is NO slouch in the stamina department.