Gyūki

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   Born of the Ten-TailsDebut Arc · Five Kage Summit

   Named by the Sage

   Gyūki comes into being when Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki divides the Ten-Tails into nine beasts. Like its siblings, it is given a name and a self — not made a weapon, but made a being.

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   The violent years

   The beast that rampaged

   For generations, Gyūki is infamous in Kumogakure. Every jinchūriki before Killer B loses control of it, and the Eight-Tails rampages — a creature whose hatred of its captors only deepens.

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   Sealed and warring

   Passed from cage to cage

   Gyūki is sealed, broken loose, and sealed again, host after host. To the Eight-Tails, humans are only the ones who chain it — and it gives them, in return, only its rage.

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   Bested by Killer B

   Beaten, and then respected

   Killer B defeats Gyūki in single combat — and then does what no host had: he treats the Eight-Tails as a partner, not a weapon. It is the first time anyone has offered it that.

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   The first true partnership

   A beast with a friend

   Gyūki and B become genuine friends — the first willing partnership in history between a tailed beast and its jinchūriki. The rampaging Eight-Tails becomes calm, dry-humoured, and loyal.

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   The war, side by side

   The model for Naruto

   Gyūki and B fight the Fourth Shinobi World War as one — and together they teach Naruto the same lesson, the bond that would let him reach the Nine-Tails in turn.

Gyūki is the second strongest of the nine tailed beasts, and it fights with a tactician's head as much as a beast's power. It can fire the Tailed Beast Ball in volleys, as a wave, or supercharged to many times its size; it strikes and shields with eight octopus-arm tails; and, true to its form, it produces ink to blind enemies or shape into clones. It is also clever enough to coach its jinchūriki through a fight in real time.

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• Who is Gyūki?+

  Gyūki is the Eight-Tails, the second strongest of the nine tailed beasts. An ox-headed, octopus-bodied creature, it is the partner of Killer B — the first tailed beast in history to truly befriend its jinchūriki.
• What does Gyūki look like?+

  Gyūki is an ushi-oni — a creature with the horned head of a bull and the body of an octopus. Its lower half is made of eight tentacle tails, and it bears four long horns, some of them lost in past battles.
• What is Gyūki's relationship with Killer B?+

  Gyūki was once a violent beast that rampaged under every host. Killer B defeated it in single combat and offered it respect — and the two became genuine friends, the first willing partnership between a tailed beast and its jinchūriki.
• How strong is Gyūki?+

  Gyūki is the second strongest of the nine tailed beasts, behind only Kurama, the Nine-Tails. It can fire a supercharged Tailed Beast Ball many times its own size, and is intelligent enough to plan tactics mid-battle.
• Did Gyūki's partnership inspire Naruto and Kurama?+

  Yes. Gyūki and Killer B's friendship was the model Naruto followed. B mentored Naruto on how to face a tailed beast, and that example helped Naruto win over Kurama, the Nine-Tails.
• Has Gyūki been a Narutodle answer?+

  Gyūki is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date it was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
• How do you guess Gyūki in Narutodle?+

  Gyūki's Tailed Beast attribute is the giveaway — a column hit only the nine beasts share. Its Village and Ninja Rank both read None, and its Nature column runs Water, Lightning, and Yang.