Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32617252-20180630055746/@comment-30323490-20180630082343

In the end, Sasuke easily became the strongest of the prodigies, but he did get outside buffs from others, so it doesn’t really count.

I’d say Minato.I believe he was the youngest Hokage ever (not sure about Naruto’s age tho).He was praised by Jiraiya as one of kind prodigy, and also was the only student whom Jiraiya took interest in.Did he also had the highest grade in academy history or something like that? A close second would be Itachi, followed by Kakashi and then Sasuke. No5 could be a bunch of people, either Neji or Boruto or even Gaara.Excluding Shukaku, Gaara was still strong AF. Orochimaru also peeks around.

Irronically enough, if we thing about it, Naruto’s accomplishemnts would put him around prodigies. I mean he mastered the multi shadow clone jutsu (jonin level jutsu) and the rasengan (A rank jutsu) at 12-13.He mastered the jutsu that not even Minato could have (rasenshuriken) at 15-16. He achived perfect SM and made it work in battle, something that neither Jiraiya nor Minato ever did. And he did all of this without any buffs from Nine-Tails or SP chakrs or whatever. It’s his goofy attitude, uncultured mind and his early failures that keeps him from popping in people’s minds when it comes to prodigies.But feats are feats.Also these feats were obviously achived through hard work, and not talent (like s prodigy would). So that obviously weight in and that’s why you can’t put Naruto in the same pot like the others.