Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25498052-20141004162612/@comment-1514283-20141104000159

Elveonora wrote: People are forgetting that what they consider to be "Naruto" is actually 10 characters in one. Base form Sasuke is miles ahead >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> from base form Naruto. All their power-ups included, they are equal in my opinion. People are just too biased towards Ashura/Hashirama/Naruto.
 * Ashura vs Indra ended with death of them both, equals, but Ashura was gifted Hagoromo's power as an extra, so Indra was actually the stronger one naturally.
 * Hashirama vs Madara, Hashirama I admit is indeed a tad stronger, but he didn't defeat Madara, Madara allowed himself to be defeated on purpose in order to steal his powers and to erase himself from history. He used Izanagi, meaning for Hashirama to have been the real winner, he would need to have killed Madara two more times.

This is all kinds of wrong.

To start, this borrowed power argument you're going to is as predictable as it is easily dismantled. Naruto gains chakra from the beasts. What he does with that requires his own skill. Sasuke had to use 9 actual bijū to make an exhausted who was holding back Naruto get serious. At full power, with no author intent to hold them back, Sasuke gets beaten like a drum - every time.

We don't know exactly how Ashura VS Indra went down but we know for a fact that Indra lost the war, meaning Ashura beat him, i.e. was stronger.

Hashirama was undeniably stronger than Madara and defeated him a bunch of times.

Base Sasuke doesn't have any dōjutsu. Base Naruto beat Sasuke when he had his MS and Rinnegan on.