Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1512913-20140725203756/@comment-24514198-20140728164745

I'll give my two cents on the matter. Before edo-Madara was revived with Rinne tensei, he got overpowered by edo-Hashirama, evidence proved by the fact that Madara was shown being entrapped within Hashirama's Wood Dragon in chapter 656. It was only after Madara was revived did he stomp on absolutely everyone, the TB's included. So because of this, we can all make reasonable claims that no matter how far one improves the edo-tensei, it still won't reincarnate you with your full strength. And if Madara at full power was able to literally become a one-man army, we can infer that Hashirama would be even stronger if he got revived - evidence being that when he was alive, he gave TB's to other villages in the hopes of balancing the nations powers out. How can someone just give TB's away? So from this alone: edo-Hashirama > edo-Madara / full power-Hashirama > full power-Madara.

Now, when Madara became the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki, only then did he truly surpass Hashirama, and the whole world for that matter. Hagoromo even said that he was approaching his "power-level". For me, I would say Madara, at the very least, had 85%-90% of the sages power. And since he gave both Naruto and Sasuke half of his power (50% each), its obvious that they've surpassed both edo-Hashirama and edo-Madara, the Madara that completely pwned the 5 kages. So the question at hand is, are Naruto and Sasuke stronger than a full power Madara and Hashirama? For me, I would say yes, but not by an exceeding amount. If Naruto were to fight full power Hashirama 100 times, I feel Naruto would win 54 of those fights and Hashirama 46. Same with Sasuke but the gap would be shorter, probably 52 wins for Sasuke to 48 wins for Madara. So in short Naruto > full power-Hashirama / Sasuke > full power-Madara.

I have no idea how strong Ashura and Indra are, but I'm surprised by how many people think that they're the weakest considering their the sages sons. I know Indra didn't have the rinnegan, but he had a perfect susanoo with just the mangekyo. Both Madara and Sasuke had to obtain eternal mangekyo's for them to obtain it. This is just pure speculation on my half, but if I had to guess, I would put Ashura and Indra above Naruto and Sasuke.