Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26388300-20160405070243/@comment-734582-20160428100111

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: but who said madara is equal to hashirama? we all know that hashirama practically demolished madara(with kurama)with low or moderate difficulty the moment he enter sage mode a What fight have you been watching? They wore eachother out to the point where they used swords, and hashirama only beat him with a single woodclone used as a distraction. Hashirama won with extremely high difficulty.

Edo Madara was brought back "stronger than you were in life". Madara then wonders if Kabuto knows how strong he was in life (alluding to his Rinnegan Awakening). At several point is it made clear that Madara is stronger than he ever was. He repeatedly wants to "try out jutsu" like Tengai Shinsei or Deep Forest Emergence. He was toying with them because being both an Edo and having Rinnegan makes him immune to whatever the Kage throw at him. He can't be hurt, so every sealing attempt can simply be blocked because he's always at full power, never weakened from injury or chakra use.

Edo Madara simply isn't comparable to hashirama.