Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30830650-20170114102742/@comment-7292165-20170115185252

Lorenzo.r.1st wrote: how is base Naruto not kage level? in the second arc of shippuden, he was fighting against kakuzo almost evenly, and then just one-shoted him with rasenshuriken. how is kakuzo not kage level? he was "damaged", but he wasn't dying or anything. by now he should be base minato lvl. maybe more. Naruto was just throwing shadow clone fodder at Kakuzu, which were getting thrashed and then plot made Kakuzu sit there and get hit by the Rasenshuriken. Also Kurotsuchi and Chojuro were doing perfectly fine against Kinshiki, and basically killed him. He was able to go toe to toe with Sasuke and leveled an arena with one swell swoop.