Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26862866-20170116113041/@comment-734582-20170121113700

Lorenzo.r.1st wrote: dude, did u even read what I wrote? and the point of my comment was literally what u just wrote.. I think barriers are stupid too in this case. My point isn't that Barriers are stupid because the Alliance can break them. My point is that barriers are stupid because it vastly limits the abilities of the Four kage in exchange for fairly little power.

A four-way combo between these kage would be infinitely more lethal than a barrier. Especially because Hashirama can obliterate most of the Alliance himself and the named characters that can stop him, can't stop a Minato-Tobirama tag team, and the characters problematic for either the tag-team or Hashirama have to deal with Hiruzen. We know little of Hiruzen, but he's named the Professor for his study of ninjutsu, so it seems reasonable he knows a lot of ninjutsu to deal with many problems. Hence in this nigh-unbeatable set-up, he's the versatile problem solver. the two fastest known characters are fast-response to deal with anyone trying to stop Hashirama.