Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28869806-20150525191639/@comment-26518343-20150621154046

How about the whole Leaf Village aside from Sasuke and Naruto? Hiruzen stated at the beginning of the series that nobody in the village at the present could stop Orochimaru if he chose to invade. That included an aged Hiruzen, Kakashi, Guy, Danzo and a long list of other seasoned jonin.

Kakashi seemed to have peaked as a teenager, as he never seemed to get a lick better during the series. Not to mention every fight he had landed him in the hospital.

The entire village had to combine efforts to try and "contain" Pain.

Akatsuki members were able to hold their own against multiple Leaf ninja time and time again. Itachi vs Kakasha, Kurenai and Asuma. Kakuzu vs half a dozen ninja. Pain vs the Village. Obito and Madara vs an entire alliance, made up of lots of Leaf.

Face it, two or three generations worth of Leaf ninja sucked the root.