Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26704954-20160301064038/@comment-7292165-20160303045307

Well if Hiruzen who by the databooks was said to have some sort of skill or knowledge of all ninjutsu in Konoha, that includes FTG. Now he could either have learned it or knows about it. If he didn't learn lets just say, it is highly likely he has a way to counter it if anything. Not saying it'd be an easy task but seeing as he holds so much knowledge, its possible. He's called the Professor and the God of Shinobi for a freaking reason. The 4th databook says Hashirama is the strongest. Let's abide by this. Well Old Hiruzen has demonstrated the ability to fight Orochimaru, Tobirama and Hashirama with high difficulty but in his condition, it was nonetheless impressive. It is unknown how much downplayed Hashirama and Tobirama were being reincarnated the first time by Orochimaru, but, they couldn't have been anymore than 60% percent of their selves, otherwise Orochimaru would have no use for them really. Hashirama didn't use all the other wood jutsus (technically Kishi didn't create these techniques till much later), Tobirama didn't use FTG. It is pretty clear that if anything it goes Naruto (Because of Kurama and Six Paths), Hashirama, Prime Hiruzen, Minato, Tobirama, Tsunade, Kakashi. He can be deduced that Prime Hiruzen can definitely stand up to Hashirama, where Hashirama would win with extremely high difficulty.

@MIGshinobi Of course old Hiruzen would be weaker than Hashirama with almost all his power.