Is there a battle shonen (by which I mean shonen focused on characters fighting using magical powers) you consider a...

If we’re talking strictly fights then Naruto, I guess. Rock Lee v Gaara, Naruto v Neji, Sakura v Sasori, Madara v Guy, many others I’m sure you could name; so many Naruto fights had intrigue and creativity in their execution and the stakes continually increased all the way up to the end, in my opinion. It had so many other problems though that I hesitate to call it a masterpiece, but damn it had some good fights - to the point that its successor Boruto is totally shit because Kishimoto did not design a world that could remain interesting in peacetime. Boruto is embarrassingly underwhelming in comparison.

Otherwise maybe YuYu Hakusho? It sort of reinvigorated/established tournament arcs as a borderline mandatory ingredient in the shounen formula.

>Naruto
Is this a joke post? Naruto is probably the worst battle shounen ever made. Terrible art, terrible designs, terrible fights.

Just kill yourself.

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>Not even say OP or HxH
Both are trash

dragon ball up till frieza saga is the pinnacle of shonen manga
entirety of fullmetal alchemist
hunter x hunter up till chimera ant arc.
call me a normalfag all you want

>It had so many other problems though that I hesitate to call it a masterpiece
Yeah, that's the problem

>Bastard!!
if you're talking about anything other than the 1992 OVA you're a fag

Baki unironically. Even the things about the series that I can admit are faults just add to the experience. It wouldnt be the same manga without them. So yes, Baki is a masterpiece even if it is imperfect.

Yeah, Berserk

the universal problem with shonen is fatigue. almost all of them start out decently strong with a good idea about the goal and how to achieve it but when you come back a few years later it's a doddering mess, with too many characters (bleach), power creep (dragon ball z), asspulls (naruto), or just too much scale (one piece)

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Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)

CHADgon CHADall CHADper, of course.

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good taste

Naruto completely depends on the arc, some arcs are really fucking good, have you on the edge of your seat, consistently good animation, interesting stuff going on, other arcs completely drag.
Naruto had a different director every episode, it's crazy how much the style and cinematography varies from episode to episode, some absolutely episodes are cinematic masterpieces with great animation and cinematography throughout and I'm not just talking about the big fights, totally random confrontations will sometimes just get really unique animation and camera work that really gives naruto a very lively and 3 dimensional vibe sometimes. Another thing no one ever gives Naruto credit for is that diversity in style and pierrot's unique approach allowed Naruto to really do some very experimental things in animation, a lot of the fights are very abstract, a lot of the animation and coloring can be very unique, yuyu hakusho does the same thing, pierrots always been THE experimental studio, willing to try new things at the risk of them looking bad. That being said for every good episode naruto has like 7 shitty episodes so I wouldn't really recommend watching naruto all the way through, skip around though and you'll find some really interesting episodes. THAT being said the Boruto movie fight is definitely top 10 anime fights of all time.
Heres some experimental animation from Naruto
youtube.com/watch?v=3mk_j4mpsuI