Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32369776-20170706150024/@comment-32569165-20170714104120

^ That's what I said, he awakened it just before he died and then summoned the Gedo Statue which kept him alive. But during all that time he never used the Rinnegan, as he was old and weak at that point, which is another plot hole in Naruto as he can perfectly execute a ton of different Rinnegan jutsu on his first try.

Yes Madara does have Hashirama's cells, OP did mention 4th Ninja War Madara so that's agreeable, he didn't however mention Senjutsu, so this doesn't count. The only reason Madara had it, was because he absorbed it from Hashirama, he doesn't appear to know, how to do it on his own.

They can both asborb Ninjutsu so it will be quite pointless to use it in a battle except for distractions, which leaves them either Taijutsu or Genjutsu. I am pretty sure that they can't place each other under Genjutsu, so we are down to Taijutsu. Madara still has his Limbo and Woodstyle which gives him slight advantage, however what stops Sasuke from doing the same thing Naruto did? Summoning 4 clones to deal with Limbo while he faces Madara. We are again down to just them 2 fighting with mostly Taijutsu and Susano'o.

Now the question is whose Susano'o is stronger, who is better at Taijutsu, how effective is woodstyle in a Taijutsu fight? We've only seen Hashirama use it on a large scale. I think there was only one time he used it against Madara in a close combat, the episode where Izuna dies, when they were fighting with swords.