Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-36006024-20180926134241/@comment-30323490-20180926163208

Sasuke also has Itachi’s eyes as a borrowed power.

Hashirama would probably be the second strongest character that actually uses his own powers, second only to 8th gate Gai. Also Guy would draw at best in a battle vs Hashirama since he would need the 8th gate to beat him but would also pretty much commmit suicide.

The other really strong ninjas have a bunch of borrowed powers: Naruto has bijuu and rikudo powers, Sasuke has ems and rikudo powers, Madara has Ems-rikudo-Hashi’s cells, Obito has Rikudo and Hashi’s cells. Even Itachi has the TB and YT, which weren’t default on his susanoo. Nagato/Pain had a borrowed rinnegan.

Naruto without bijuu and rikudo powers would still have SM and be crazy powerful, but not on Hashirama’s league since we are also counting out his SP chakra.Without his EMS and rikudo powers Sasuke would either be blind as a bat or dead by this point.