Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26403664-20160228225013/@comment-26773508-20160419004110

Although QuakingStar and I almost never see eye-to-eye, I think he's right with his Adult Sasuke<<Hagoromo claim. I think so for 3 reasons:

1) Like QuakingStar pointed out, Hagoromo gave half of his chakra to Naruto and Sasuke each. Half<<Full. So by simple logic, Adult Rinnegan Sasuke<<Hagoromo. Now you might say that Sasuke already had Indra's chakra, which is half of Hagoromo's chakra. Then Hagoromo gave another half of his chakra, and so Half+Half=Full and hence, Sasuke=Hagoromo. But there are several problems to this mode of reasoning.

First, it is not at all entirely clear if Indra's chakra volume was half of Hagoromo's chakra volume. I think everyone here intuitively understands that Indra's chakra is half of Hagoromo only in essence, NOT in volume. The same goes for Ashura's chakra. It's the essence of Hagoromo's chakra that got divided between his sons, not the volume.

To clarify further, Rinnegan Madara also possessed Hagoromo's chakra. Yet we know that Rinnegan Madara was nowhere near Hagoromo's level. Because while he got the essentials of Hagoromo's chakra, he didn't get the volume.

2) Hagoromo possessed both the Six Paths Senjutsu and the Rinnegan. Sasuke only has the Rinnegan but not the Six Paths Senjutsu, which further supports the assumption that Sasuke is roughly only half as powerful as non-Juubi Jinchuriki Hagoromo.

3) Hagoromo not only possessed the Six Paths Senjutsu and the Rinnegan, but he was also the Juubi Jinchuriki. Sasuke is not a jinchuriki. Hence Sasuke<<Hagoromo.

P.S. QuakingStar is right about Kurama's remarks. Kurama merely compared Sasuke's ability to combine the chakra of all 9 bijuu to Hagoromo's ability to split the Juubi into 9 parts. That's where the comparison ends. In fact, that particular feat of Sasuke isn't anywhere near Hagoromo's feat as Hagoromo not only split the Juubi, but he used Creation of all Things to literally create and breathe life to the Bijuu out of thin air. So Yin Kurama was actually guilty of exaggerating a bit.