Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25134516-20140703093231/@comment-26302001-20140730053011

Hashirama grew up and was born in, war. He had no choice and no time to do anything but get better and stronger he also lost a lot of people early on, two brothers even. He had more motivation and reason to be stronger earlier, PLUS he had Wood Release. Without six paths stuff and extra jinchuriki stuff included to Naruto, Hashirama is essentially the most powerful Incarnate of Ashura.. I would even venture to say that includes Asura himself.