User blog comment:TsurugiFan16/Nomination Game/@comment-4460888-20130316214025/@comment-4105472-20130317151915

Tenma has a go-forward-personality, four Keshins, good hissatsus etc, because he's the MAIN protagonist. That makes him be overpowered, of course, but that doesn't make him unbeatable. He was seen several times, about to give up.

Also, the Taiyou vs Tenma battle we could see in the anime, tend to be in favor or Taiyou; he was playing his own soccer the whole match, while Tenma was worried about him and failed an occasion !

Also, even though Tenma can use Keshin Fusion, Taiyou can ask his teammates to help him to get more power; Keshin DRAWING. That ability, he's the only one being able to use it in anime.

Tenma may have been a good captain lately, but he wasn't at first. As Taiyou arrived in 1/2 finals of Holy Road, he immediately became their captain, and almost led them to the victory. If he wasn't ill during that match, Arakumo's victory would've been sure.

Taiyou's first Armed shoot failed. But, who did stop it ? Fei. Tenma wouldn't have scored either if he had shot instead of Taiyou with Keshin Armed. And, if Fei hadn't stopped it, Chet would've caught it. At all, he wasn't lucky to use it first against one of Feida's teams. If Taiyou had first used his Armed against Zanark Domain, he would've scored; Sand Cutter isn't that strong.

His higher block can be useful in the CS game; as far as I know, we can give him a block hissatsu. You're also telling me, some of his hissatsu get a boost, because they have the same element as Tenma. Taiyou's hissatsus actually can get a boost too ! Sunshine Storm, Atomic Flare, Ryuusei Blade etc !

To finish once again, I'll say even though Tenma seems to be able to play at all the positions, he isn't an all-rounder player and is mainly used as MF. He wasn't placed as GK after the match against Hakuren, because it's not his position.