Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-24855929-20160616114031/@comment-25122992-20160620104814

Elveonora wrote: But Wood Release isn't an individual power achieved by oneself, it's an innate genetic trait. Neither is Kurama, it's something put into someone. Well, of course it's a KG, but strangely a KG manifested only in one person known throughout the generations, i.e. Hashirama. All the attemps to recreate it imply that he was really the sole wielder, and all these attemps were based only on his DNA. What's more important, only WR allowed Hashi to compete with Madara and his Sharingan abilities, while Kurama's power allowed Naruto to compete with the same abilities of Sasuke, so I assume that, one way or another, Hashi and Naruto were "meant" for the power got by them to continue the conflict against Indra's reincarnates, although the circumstances of achieving their powers don't indicate something like this. But the point stands clear - without them, neither Hashi nor Naruto wouldn't be able to hold their own against Madara and Sasuke respectivelly.