Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25498052-20141004162612/@comment-25093611-20141103213144

SuperSaiyaMan wrote: 'Base Sasuke is greater than Base Naruto'? Which is why in their base forms they were near equals, right?

The manga undeniably showed Naruto superior. He was exhausted and holding back, but he still managed to defeat Sasuke. Sasuke even had to get a powerup mid-battle just to make Naruto get serious. This is all manga canon, Elveonora, denying it just shows your bias.

actually, sasuke was nerfed too, he didnt have two rinnegans -_- and kurama himself said that scince sasukes rinnegan was new, he couldnt absorb jutsus and attack at the same time, this clearly shows that he wasnt at his peak, the same with naruto, and, guys, naruto was never in "base mode", they fought with taijutsu (or with whatever else) the whole day(off screen), and than? both fell, but while they fought on screen kurama was the only reason why naruto wasnt killed by amaterasu and why he was able to use rasengan again...

like elveonora said, base sasuke (uchiha power) is stronger than base naruto (uzumaki power), and with the power ups, they are equal...

btw, more than anything else, narutos ability to be on par with sasuke was not even explained, natural energy isnt something that an dirctly be used in a attack, they need to balance it in their bodys, and if sasuke was so6p-lvl, than, how was 50%kyuubi+a bit of all bijuus+naruto able to keep up with this power? the only answer i can think of is....plot :/ or kurama is actually really overhyping sasuke+9bijuus and guessed his power wrong :/ or the story needed to retcon natural energy so that naruto can channel it directly into a attack (or did i misunderstand how sage mdoe works? :/ ) ^_^