Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26998824-20150920161424/@comment-26773508-20150927184409

Thekillman wrote:

Then answer me this: What is Hiruzen's prime to begin with? what's his most powerful (non-sacrificial) jutsu? We know Onoki and the Third Raikage's strongest jutsu. We don't know Hiruzen's. Until you can satisfactorily answer me those two questions, any talk of retcons and overhype are exaggerations. There's no need to answer those two questions to figure out that Hiruzen was overhyped. If that guy were so badass, we would have seen something from him during the War. As the alleged "professor", he had knowledge of a fuck lot of jutsus. Yet the supposedly inferior Tobirama displayed far greater feats in the most important War in Narutoverse so far. And mind you, according to hype, Hiruzen was far more versatile than Tobirama. Yet we see nothing from him. If Kishi were really serious with Hiruzen being the "strongest hokage" while he was writing Shippuden, then he wouldn't have ignored Hiruzen to give the spotlight to Hashi, Madara, Tobirama and Minato. Also, the fact that Kishi gave incredibly awesome feats to Ay III and Onoki while giving nothing to Hiruzen screams "overhype" and "retcon" to any sensible person. If there ever was a time for Hiruzen to show his versatile skills, the 4th War was it. Instead he couldn't even beat Guruguru in his Edo form. That's all any sensible man needs to know about whether a character is overhyped or not.