[quote=@Buddha]
[@Hillan] Well, no, because in the anime it's also said that it requires a lot of chakra manipulation skill to create these clones. Theoretically a chunin can't make four clones or three, or even two in most cases, because they lack the skill to manipulate their chakra all at the same times. 

So a genin really shouldn't be making more than one clone.
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[quote=@Asura]
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>Naruto said to have markedly bad chakra control early on
>Naruto can form multiple shadow clones before learning how to run up trees.

Buddha pls. 
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Yeah, pretty much. I think the reason Kakashi, or Itachi don't use more clones is because they don't think it's a worthy trade off to split their chakra reserves so heavily. (That being said, Kakashi has on ocassion made 5 clones.)