Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30168027-20161030085406/@comment-25643824-20161212132227

"Hokage naruto vs adult sasuke" who would win. I believe this will definitely not end in a tie, just because of how vote2 turned out doesn't mean that every time they fight it will be that way. Is it that they would both loose legs now?

IMO naruto would win, why?

The only sources of them being adults is gaiden and the boruto movie, points to note.

1. In gaiden, naruto seems pretty laid back, which is not uncommon of past hokages, kuruma telling him that he is rusty seems more of a jokingly jab at his pride in typical kuruma fashion. I doubt even if he was rusty that that translated into any significant decline in his fighting prowess, especially since we don't know how much he improved between the last and becoming hokage.

2. The boruto movie which is canonically after gaiden, is the first time we see naruto and sasuke go full out as adults.

3. It is never shown or hinted that sasuke is continually training, if he does a lot of espionage he is more than likely just as busy as naruto. Granted there will be the odd confrontation but sasuke is basically a spy that moves in the shadows so I will "assume" it's less than more.

4. The only reason naruto was captured was because he was protecting everyone, I mean everyone from all the villages even sasuke. As hinted by sasuke himself when he told boruto naruto could have deflected the biju bomb.

5. Sasuke told boruto he (sasuke) could not surpass naruto. IMHO this would be from the fight at vote2 to present day. Now if sasuke is constantly training and naruto is so rusty, why wouldn't sasuke have surpassed him already.

6. During the momoshiki fight naruto was visibly very weak from tanking that massive biju bomb and having his chakra/9tails drained. And yes dimension travel takes a lot of chakra but that quantity is relative and sasuke showed zero signs of fatigue of any kind. But for the sake of argument I am placing them on even footing in this fight.

7. They fight together and do very well but then they are separated, naruto being crushed between two walls, tanking it and escaping, while sasuke the instant he is on his own is severely burnt to the extent where he can't even defend himself. It is highly likely he could have been killed if not for naruto.

8. Now naruto defeating/killing sasuke depends on his resolve and how much he has matured since getting older and becoming hokage. From what I have seen he appears to be a lot more serious and affirmative and I would like to believe he understands what being hokage requires. So yeah I think as an adult he would be willing to kill sasuke, so he would win.