Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26866422-20160511205630/@comment-26127155-20160511213219

The thing is Naruto isn't like the Dragonball series where people are clearly stronger than another. Which to be honest, I prefer it that way as we have seen a wide range of different abilities instead of everyone just throwing a larger tailed beast ball at each other.

If A can beat B, and B beat C, it does not mean that A can necessarily beat C in this series.

A top ten in Naruto could potentially be made, but it wouldn't mean that no one could be number one, but number one has better odds against the mass majority of the series. It is also harder to gauge battles in this series as a lot more factors come into play for certain characters instead of just: power, durability, strength, speed and many people can't comprehend the fact that someone who can destroy a continent could easily lose to someone who can't.

There is also the matter that Kishimoto never have shown us Hagoromo, Hamura, Sakumo, Indra and Asura duke it out in a fight so nothing can be made more than a guess about these characters. We have also seen characters who were potentially never shown in their prime during the series such as: Third Hokage (age), Orochimaru (Sickness), Itachi (Sickness, Holding back, Blind), etc.