Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34938099-20180927150340/@comment-30323490-20180927182154

Tsunade flat out stated that she is not able to heal the damage of the rasenshuriken, and that would most likely include herself. Also when she stated this Naruto wasn’t even a Sage...She can’t beat him. Also shadow clones + SM would counter hiraijin. With just SM Madara managed to do it, and he wasn’t even a proper Sage.

You are underestimating adult Naruto. Teen SM Naruto is not even comparable with Hokage Naruto.

And to say that Naruto would have trouble beating Gaara is laughable quite frankly...

A teen Naruto shadow clone with a small fill from Kurama created an army of shadow clones that stopped Deep Forest. Gaara has nothing on that. With shadow clones and speed Naruto would easily close up the gap space between them and once this is done, Gara can get oneshoted quite easily...