Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-28731007-20160627160729/@comment-28247797-20160627203610

@Thekillman That's a misconception, Gaara never defeated Kimmimaro. Infact, quite the opposite was about to happen until Kimmi died to his own illness. Kimmi's bone was about to pierce Gaara's head and he was so shocked that he wouldn't have been able to react in time given his standstill as Kimmimaro passed away.

Kimmimaro is actually very good and I think he's partially underrated, Tsunade is just durable and strong, but slow. Kimmimaro could run circles around her and I'm not sure if her attacks would be able to impact his dense bones much, even if it did he would just reform them. He's so skilled with it he managed to encase his typical bone structure with another, created layer to avoid being crushed to death by Gaara's sand burial that was Tsunami wide, which also adds to his durability. Not only this but Kimmimaro can spawn bones from different parts of his body, fighting against him taijutsu wise can be a nightmare and that's what Tsunade is known for, and healing of course.

The only way she's standing a chance is with her rebirth 1,000 healing seal or with her summoning Katsuyu (Which doesn't have many feats.) Without it, Kimmimaro would easily land a death dealing blow especially if he went CS2, which would be an absolute stomp. And she isn't avoiding his Braken dance that dwarfed Gaara's sand tsunami. I'm not even sure if she could even hit him a surmountable amount of times, all in all I'm leaning more towards Kimmimaro but it could go either way really.