Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34436445-20180904175938/@comment-5085906-20180908164443

LoneNinja wrote: Still not seeing it. Sage Mode Hashirama < Sasuke Current. You forget that the anime and movie are canon. We clearly seen their first fight in the Kaguya domain. What that showed was Sasuke on the fence. Kinshiki therefore is at least equal to current Sasuke. So unless you're saying Hashirama can beat current Sasuke, I don't see Hashirama beating someone who forced Sasuke to retreat on his own. He didn't force him to retreat on his own. Sasuke only scampered out of there once Momoshiki made an appearance. He never used his Mangekyo during the fight and the only Rinnegan ability he used was Amenotejikara. His dimension traveling costs a lot of chakra, so he most likely was conserving it in order to escape out of Kaguya's dimension. We're not gonna factor in plot circumstances in this debate.

This Sasuke would have killed Kinshiki if he could logic is a fallacy especially considering Kinshiki was matched and sealed off by two arguably low-tier Kage later on during that arc. If we go by such logic, then I guess Sasuke can't take Shin Uchiha on by himself either, considering the latter got the drop on him twice, even though there's a gigantic difference in feats and skillsets between the two.