Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25343176-20141217153708/@comment-25344672-20141230150253

In my personal opinion... I think we are basing Rinnegan to be more powerful because we have seen the full extent of its powers.

Tenseigan Toneri is as powerful as EMS/Edo-Rinnegan Madara since Madara as a Edo Tensei was battling a Yang Kurama Chakra Mode Naruto (minus Sage Mode) on a near even level.

Also Madara stated, unless the original user uses the eyes. You will never awaken its full power and both eyes have to be together to achieves it full potential.

Only exception to the original Eyes rule is the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. However we do not know its true process of exchanging eyes otherwise it would be logical for Izuna and Itachi to gain it. One can assume that the original eye has to be pushed to the limit before taking the eyes and powers of a relative and achieving even greater power in the form of the EMS.

In this case Toneri ability are limited just like Nagato using Madara's Rinnegan and being restricted to Six Path Technique. If Toneri had his original eye then things might have been different and he might be able to use more of the Tenseigan's true power.

Alternatively the Tenseigan might work by exchanging eyes like the EMS in which case had Hinata or Hanabi exchanged eyes and awaken the ability of the Tenseigan then in all likelihood they would be on the level of revived Rinnegan Madara.

Either way Toneri's ability are at the level of pre-Rinne Tensei Madara with his single Rinnegan.

Also to further add on... if Toneri had been the original owner of the eyes he might have had unique abilities like Madara's Limbo: Border Jail and Sasuke's Short Warping and Kaguya's Dimensional Powers. So in this sense Tenseigan Chakra Mode is just a basic ability just like the Six Path Technique.

Also Naruto wasn't using Six Path Sage Mode because if I remember correctly... Kurama wasn't inside him for some reason... (He was having his own battle outside Naruto) so Naruto was limited to using Complete Kurama Chakra Mode + Sage Mode rather than his Six Path Sage Mode.

Another factor could be that Toneri doesnt have the experience nor the time to get accustomed to his new eyes and powers... Rinne-Sasuke with his newly awakened eye required the help of Rikudo-Naruto to fight Jubi-Madara evenly not to mention Naruto did more of the physical fighting and even after fighting the war for essentially 24 hours and then dealing with Kaguya mainly by himself and fighting Sasuke for yet another full day and remaining conscious at the end... Naruto is by far the most strongest in the series... if anything Toneri is on the level of Sasuke with his yet fully Matured Rinnegan and Madara as his edo tensei form which explains why he was evenly matched again a Kurama Mode Naruto.