Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-1926479-20180323224645/@comment-27797856-20180324204223

Thekillman wrote: Lorenzo.r.2nd wrote: yay guys! now boruto is legitimately a super high anbu lvl shinobi! isnt this awesome? now he can even fight zabuza and win apparently! At his age, Itachi was running missions for ANBU, and iirc 1 year off from becoming an ANBU team captain. Kakashi had already killed ninja in war. But you're forgetting who Ao is...

A war veteran, first and foremost, someone who survived not one but TWO great ninja wars, fought against Shisui and lived to tell the tale, and led the Sensor Division of the ASF, was pretty much the right-hand-man of Mei, and a Hunter-Nin, meaning, most of his career is flooded with achievements of killing ninja that are notorious enough to be considered dangerous criminals by at least one of the 5 great villages, and, in all sense of the word, the saviour of Kirigakure... He was listed in the Bingo Book for a reason.

I'm just glad that Boruto didn't actually beat him... His hand being blown off by him is excusable only because they're prosthetics and that we don't know much about Ao's abilities prior to the 4th Shinobi World War, other than that he's a renown Sensor, and a long-ranged fighter.