Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30168027-20161030085406/@comment-25643824-20161210210317

According to the movie momoshiki could have killed sasuke when he burnt him to a crisp if it wasn't for naruto, looks like all that training sasuke did didn't pay off to well. And before anyone says oh momoshiki could have killed naruto too. Let me remind you naruto only got captured because he tanked that attack instead of deflecting, to save EVERYONE sasuke included.

People alway say Kishi implies that they are equal IMHO he shows that while they are both strong naruto is stronger. In the animated version of the Vote2 fight, kuruma has susano pinned down buju bomb ready and did not fire it (reaffirming that he was indeed holding back). At that close proximity he could have killed sasuke. In the fight with momoshiki naruto is supposed to be "rusty" and sasuke is supposed to be training constantly but the fight depicted the total opposite.

Implication: Even a rusty paper pushing naruto is stronger than a constantly training sasuke. Or rather naruto needs to be rusty and sasuke continually training for them to be barely equal, naruto still having the edge.