Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30323490-20171113213649/@comment-734582-20171123102140

UntappedRage wrote: I mentioned that part in my post, but from the visible damage inflicted onto the 3rd while in Edo-Tensei, I believe he would've been left in a near-death state if hit while actual flesh and blood. I don't share that opinion. From the manga, the damage is difficult to tell (also because of his scar). While he was injured somewhat, i don't think it was enough to finish him off. Notably the rasenshuriken blades tend to cut whatever they hit, and in this case there was no visible cutting damage, implying that the brunt of the hit was already tanked by his lightning shield. Naruto notes that his Rasenshuriken had no effect, so it indeed seems that the damage to the 3rd was minimal, and if he'd been alive he still would've been able to fight. Vladosaurus wrote: Again, ridiculous. Susanoo is not chakra taxing as you make it out to be. These are made up things that you want to believe. Don't be fooled by Sasuke's use of susanoo from the time he only had MS. But these jutsu DO take up a lot of chakra. We've seen MS users prepare these techniques in their eye repeatedly, and we've only seen jutsu be prepared when they are immensely chakra taxing. Sasuke could use Chidori twice in part 1, fight Itachi for a few minutes with Curse Seal, with MS he fought Danzo with Susanoo exclusively and with EMS was shooting Amaterasu bolts and cloaking Kurama in Susanoo. I don't think Chidori costs more chakra than an Amaterasu or a Susanoo, yet he used high-level jutsu more and more.

Nagato had to recall Deva Path and his nose bled from casting Chibaku Tensei, despite the fact that spamming ninjutsu for minutes on end across 6 bodies barely made him sweat. yet Sasuke cast 9 CB's at the same time without a sweat. I'm sorry, but the idea that MS or Rinnegan techniques don't cost a lot of chakra simply doesn't hold.

Perfect Susanoo is still a massive chakra giant, and in size and power outdoes many jutsu that are used by Biju-level opponents. It's immense defenses suggests that the chakra armor is no less than that of Kurama, it's immense cutting power is no less than a Biju's taijutsu.

Considering that the Raikages are cloaked in an insanely powerful lightning armor and have biju-levels of chakra, i don't see why it's so hard to believe that Sasuke with his superior armor (both in size and toughness), superior firepower and immense fighting duration also does.

We don't know how strong Base Naruto's reserves are, but for any kind of fight he almost instantly relies on Kurama, suggesting his own power isn't as great (Comparable). While he may be Biju-level even in base, Biju-level stretches anywhere from low-end (implied with Raikages) to high-end (Hashirama)