Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-9567825-20140910102105/@comment-4031545-20140911061433

Jashin Uchiha wrote: ItachiWasAHero wrote:

"Aka Shi Crow wrote: So if Sasuke is just weak compared to Nagato ¿What's the point of the fight? Every villain must be more powerful than the past one"

No.... that is NOT the case. In DBZ Super Buu was more powerful than Kid Buu(Goku and Vegeta even say so themselves). But who was the final villain? Kid Buu. Nagato Prime may be stronger than Sasuke, but so what? He got talk no jutsu'ed and gave up his life to bring everyone he killed that day back. Sasuke made nine CT Nagato made one CT

(1>9 in your world?)

and Sasuke deliberately made them smaller, not flamboyantly wasting chakra.

The only reason that Nagato wasted chakra was because he didn't make it big enough, and as a result Naruto (Under the influence of Kurama) broke out. Sasuke, on the other hand, first trapped them in genjutsu prior to using Chibaku Tensei to trap them. Sasuke would have the advantage here, since he has both the Sharingan and Rinnegan, whereas Nagato only had the Rinnegan, which doesn't seem to be suited for Genjutsu in any way. Besides, how can you compare an Edo Tensei, which has unlimited chakra reserves, to a living person? Yes, Edo Tensei apparently aren't as capable as a real body, as evidenced by when Madara was fully resurrected, but Nagato also wasn't fighting using the Six Paths of Pain technique, which I'm sure was somewhat wasteful chakra-wise, especially over increasingly long distances. If nothing else, it placed a limit on ability, since Nagato had to move the Deva Path closer to him before he was able to use Chibaku Tensei.

As a side note from mentioning Itachi and Nagato being reanimated, I almost wonder what would've happened if Itachi had gone and stabbed all the Edo Tensei with the Sword of Totsuka instead of making Kabuto undo the jutsu. My own curiousity.

I feel that Naruto's abilities as compared to prior villains is a moot point anyways, as Naruto has gotten arguably stronger since then. Instead of controlling Kurama's chakra, they're working as a team. He's able to merge sage mode and tailed beast mode. Hagoromo gave him one heck of a pat on the back. He has a portion of all the tailed beasts' chakra inside of him, and they're apparently able to communicate through him to one another (Which I have a feeling is going to be of some significance in the fight to come). To say that he's the same as....a day or so ago, chronologically, is a gross misunderstanding. So long as this fight doesn't drag on as long as the Fourth Shinobi World War (Naruto will Talk no Jutsu him to death long before that), I'm good with this fight. I know that Sasuke has his reasons for wanting to kill the Tailed Beasts and the Kage, and I can't disagree that the root of many problems are tied to these very things, but if his way of taking control of everything and shaping everything in his image is right, then why did they stop Madara in the first place? The end doesn't justify the means.