Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30530312-20170403010718/@comment-3441296-20170404233506

Hashirama has sage mode, wood release, his giant freaking wood constructs (pretty much summons) and chakra reserves comparable to Naruto during war arc. Tobirama is fast as hell and has the FTG, great with water jutsu, consider almost on par with Madara (was equal to his brother) and has a variety of jutsu at his disposal. Not to mention is very intelligent in battle. Hiruzen has versatile jutsu, and a summon that is impressive. Also pretty intelligent in battle and was known to be the strongest Kage during his time. Minato is a tactical genius and has the FTG. Is extremely fast naturally. Tsunade has her own summon, super strength, and healing abilities that are matched by non but Hashirama. Kakashi knows how Pain's abilities work, has more chakra then the first time they fought (compare prewar fights to post), and during the first conflict was deemed a big enough threat to be removed.

Pain's summons are dealt with, his chakra absorption is dealt with (can't absorb senjutsu chakra as shown fighting Naruto), Taijutsu path is dealt with, etc. Literally only thing he has is the Shinra Tensei and most of those above have a way to deal with that. Konan is powerful, but again, against those six it wouldn't really matter.