Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-31611719-20170514123545/@comment-30426414-20170517033434

Thekillman wrote: TSB's do have Susanoo's destructive capabilities. We've seen them being used as platforms for jutsu (remember when Obito fired one and obliterated a huge chunk easily)

That wasn't even mountain level and you already know what 1 strike of Madara's PS sword did to 3 mountains.

Thekillman wrote: we've seen them being moulded into various weapons and shapes that obliterated even Edo Tensei, we've seen them move around extremely fast to respond to any requirement.

Yes, they are lethal but you can't compare their destructive capabilities with that of a PS, especially one enhanced by the Juubi. Naruto used a TSB to wipe out a meteorite many times the size of mountain ranges by combining the TSB with a rasenshuriken. As far as we know, Madara doesn't have any jutsu he could incorporate with the TSB's.

Thekillman wrote: Besides, yes Madara would need to invest a massive amount of his chakra into his Susanoo to bring it to Sasuke's Ultimate Susanoo standard. A fraction of the Juubi's power in a susanoo wouldn't do much.

You know that when Sasuke inherited the Bijuu's, their chakra reserves were not close to their max. From multiple bijuu bombs fired by the ten tails, to casting the infinite tuskyomi on the whole world, to swapping the time space multiple times by kaguya, I think we can agree that all that took a good amount of the bijuu reserves. Especially since kaguya had the need to recover chakra after using too much of her reserves. Sasuke received the remnants of the bijuu's chakra after they were used by Obito, Madara and Kaguya and he was able to form a susanoo that strong while only taking a portion of what the bijuu's had left.

So like I said before, manifesting a susanoo would not make a dent in Madara's reserves considering what Sasuke was able to do with a fraction of the bijuu's chakra.

Thekillman wrote: I'm not sure if you read the Madara v Naruto and Sasuke fight, but Madara was winning throughout. With just One rinnegan he was roughly equal, yet he was strong and fast enough to obtain the second and cast IT anyway. He still won in the end. There was no need for Susanoo, not for defensive purposes, not for offensive purposes. The worst hit he ever took was from Guy, and that was before he had the God Tree. After the shinju, worse hits (namely half his body getting cut) did nothing to him.

So no, even if there's some gain to using Susanoo, it's an unnecessary jutsu due to the cost and downsides. TSB's are a superior weapons platform.

I'm not arguing that Madara needed to use it in the fight against Naruto and Sasuke. Although he'd probably have to result to using it had the fight continued since I can't see anything else in his arsenal capable of taking out Naruto and Sasuke besides bijuu bombs. You said that PS doesn't provide any value to him, I disagreed because it clearly makes him stronger at a negligible cost, whether he needed to use it or not.