Despite starting out as a lazy kid at the beginning of the original series, Shikamaru Nara is now the right-hand man and chief advisor to Naruto Uzumaki, the Seventh Hokage. Even as a child, Shikamaru showed great potential, and had a proven IQ of over 200, as stated in the manga and the anime, setting him up as an exceptional and top-tier strategist for the series.