Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-1872728-20170911101125/@comment-5085906-20170917112022

@UltimaDude Eh, you do have a point. But I don't think a simple stab with that would have killed Hashirama. He was probably thinking of committing sudoku or something of the like.

@Namikazenaruto9 I am not favoring anyone. Most of my favorite characters are in the opposing team. I'm just trying to play this one fair. And I'm not making contradictory claims - but both of these Edo Tensei versions were activated differently. Kabuto siphoned chakra from Orochimaru's curse marks to exert control over the summoned shinobi, while Orochimaru used Senju cells. Another difference is that Kabuto summoned more than a dozen shinobi while Orochimaru summoned Four for a short period of time, which he then released from his control. Heck, one of them broke through his control before that, so that makes it three. So, I guess it's a matter of which is stronger - Senju chakra or a type of chakra harvested from Sage Transformation. Taking into account which one of those two was coveted more in the series, I'm gonna have to go with 'Senju's cells.

But okay, even if we assume that Jiraiya and Kabuto's sum of chakra is comparable to Hashirama's, they still don't have access to his enhanced version of SM or his multitude of devastating techniques. Heck, Jiraiya's SM was shown to lack the extraordinary sensory perception usually granted by this mode AND the enhanced strength. All he could really do was enhance his existing techniques.