Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25516007-20141008201906/@comment-3568954-20141103155449

DazzlingEmerald wrote: lol so your judging these guys off their stats? So itachi, orochimaru, and jiraiya were all stronger than hiruzen? The god of all shinobi? I know he's in his old age, but no. To rely on stats is the silliest thing ever. You don't even do that in sports.

kishimoto used Stats as away to measure the power of a shinobi. also no where in the databooks does it say that these stats are the shinobi's base level statistics with out power ups.