Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26704954-20160301064038/@comment-24163532-20160309073115

The way I see it, Prime Hiruzen even though is featless has the most possible chances of victory due to jutsu knowledge. As for why he wasn't shown to do anything during the war, maybe it had to do with his old body being 70, in reality most 70 year olds can't even walk yet this guy was not only able to defeat one but three Hokage caliber Shinobi on his own, ignoring that feat is pure ignorance. Not only that but he is said to have monstrous reserves in his prime, 50+ is most definitely not someone's prime, that's considered senior citizen age. I would put Prime at late twenties to early forties. No one is dusting Hiruzen, and prior to this thread I didn't even consider him better then Tsunade, but after reading up on him, his resume is quite impressive. As to why he couldn't stop Kurama, maybe plot armor, or he didn't want to interfere with Minato? He was also retired so he definitely wasn't in his prime and his monstrous reserves are only stated for prime. Its possible once his reserves became limited, he lost most effective jutsu thus why he was featless. Or Hashirama and Minato were the focus of Kishimotos attention for plot purposes. There are a lot of stuff Kishi has neglected, shouldn't be surprising if he neglected this as well. The fact is, not only does the databook state it, but the Manga states Hiruzen is the best Hokage prior to Tsunade, thus Hiruzen > Hashirama. Since its in both Databook and /Manga/, this is a fact.