Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31568508-20170321130337/@comment-35622277-20170324084331

Exactly. Naruto has the advantage of combined strategy with multiple clones as well as Kurama.

See the problem is that when fighting Naruto, when it should be a 1v1, it's technically not. Since even his Shadow Clones are immensely powerful, and including the fact they all function independently? Yeah, Hashirama will have a really hard time.

Naruto also recharges SM near-instantaneously in KCM as well as base (Both feats also displayed in The Last).

Hashirama needs time to build that Nature energy, hence his fighting style is the same as Jiraiya's = Stand on something big that can fight for you while I wait.

However Hashirama gathers nature energy relatively quickly, so Naruto's speed feats need to come into play here.