Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36394790-20180824122210/@comment-36697734-20180830140759

Still, my whole point is that the best Naruto could do without destroying his own body was a slightly bigger Rasengan and it's elemental variant. With this he did not even sniff Jonin level, in my eyes. After training for Sage Mode though, he became Kage level. That's a more massive power up compared to EMS. Base Sasuke during that point, was ten times stronger than Base Naruto. Then he finally got his MS that turned in to the EMS. I think Naruto gaining SM was just to level the playing field. EMS Sasuke wins against SM Naruto just because of his incapability, during that time, to hold it for a longer period.