Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26145872-20160224202704/@comment-734582-20160311174403

MlGshinobi wrote: Naruto has high intelligence, high wisdom,  was better at sage mode training even though the nine tails made it harder, has higher reserve s, and better rasengan. Jiraiya literally only beats him in experience. Yes naruto had more prep and intel, but jiraiya was no longer stronger than naruto at that point. I still think even with full intel and prep, jiraiya would still get stomped with mid difficulty by pain. Without prep and intel Naruto wouldn't have made it halfway through the six paths. he ran out of Sage Mode pretty quick and needed to refill it with prepared Shadowclones. And he clearly was no match for the Pains without Sage Mode. He even defeated Deva only because Nagato made a miscalculation.