Naruto ? best battle strategy? In an overall battlefield situation, shikamaru has it, true. More specified, though, in melee combat the most intelligent, strategic fighter is sasuke. Watch him fight Haku, before the ice mirrors came into play. Throws a couple of jabs with that kunai, tosses one just to get haku's head lined up and BAM kick in the face. Shikamaru would be a better troop leader, as they said in the anime, but nobody manipulates the opponent in taijutsu like sharingan boy.