Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36366948-20200805112208/@comment-9782468-20200819192854

The Tsuchikage landed a direct hit due to help from a diversion in Chojuro, and super strength seems to be one of her abilities. In fact of the 4 Kage, Kurotsuchi was only one of two Kage who managed to not be immediately incapacitated by fused Momoshiki. Gaara managed to catch him, and Kurotsuchi threw a punch and dodged a blow.

Also Chojuro and Kurotsuchi only managed to bind him after he wast staggered by Sasuke so it makes sense. Sasuke was 1v1ing him before, so it makes sense that having two Kage with him let them win against him.

There's a difference with Hiruzen in that it's a character statement. Iruka said Hiruzen was the strongest in history, which was sort of explained away by someone (I forget who, maybe Kabuto) saying people just forgot about the immense scale of Hashirama and Madara's power.

Also we never see Hiruzen fighting in his prime as well. So there's just not really info.

The difference with Kinshiki is that it's not a character statement, it's direct from the author. And this statement direct from the author is not contradicted by Kinshiki being unable to split a planet since we never see him try to split a planet lol. Sure, author statements aren't always true, but we can only really say they aren't true if they're contradicted. Such as the case with Susanoo's requirements and Amaterasu's temperature.