Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-28668535-20160818030358/@comment-5311048-20160818145405

The 1st hokage, vs the 4th hokage. I will study their weapons armor and skill to see who would win!

Hashirama Senju:The strongest Shinobi of his time, Hashirama is the first Hokage of Konoha. Although the strongest Shinobi of his time, and surpassing most in the newest generation, Hashirama was thought to be the weakest shinobi despite his fame of defeating Madara Uchiha. This was due to his kind personality that resembled Naruto Uzumaki's. Despite what those believed Hashirama Senju is a very powerful Shinobi, being able to take down a person like Madara Uchiha, be able to create a forest in a blink of an eye, and even summon a giant wood avatar bigger than the Susanoo or tailed beast itself. Hashirama's strength and power was noted by Kabuto to be yet, unmatched, even Madara Uchiha openly admits that he could never defeat him, even after being revived by the Edo tensei, Madara still openly admits that Hashirama could still defeat him. Hashirama's taijutsu can equally match that of Hiruzen Madara, who had defeated an group of shinobi, belonging to an army (pretty much destroyed a fragment of that army), which gives him incredible reflexes. Hashirama chakra is also strong, where he noted that Naruto and him share the same chakra level after seeing the Naruto's chakra passed on to the entire army of shinobi. Hashirama is so powerful, that even his brother, his student, and the 4th hokage were shocked at his overwhelming power after threatening his brother, who was about to attack Sasuke. Hashirama also owns the ability Wood release, a Kekkei Genkei only he is able to produce, any of those who manage to take his DNA and copy it were noted as weaker. Hashirama's Wood release is able to withstand blasts from a tailed beast bomb, fire, and even match a strength that of sunanoo and Kurama combined. He is even able to overwhelm it with Sage Art: Wood Style: Shinsu Senju, Veritable 1000-Armed Kan'on. This does mean he also have teh ability to enter sage mode, and with it Sage Art: Gate of the Great God, an ability that is able to bind creatures, even the ten-tails it self.

With so much incredible feats, Hashirama one weakness is his chakra, and care for others. Hashirama like most shinobi is limited with chakra, but has enough to match those who are even jinchuriki's, or using a tailed beast to battle. He is also to protective over his village, willing to sacrifice himself to protect the village's future.

Minato Namikaze: Being the 4th Hokage of Konoha. Minato is titled to be the fastest Shinobi alive. Having reflexes that is able to counter even the 4th's Raikage's fully powered lightning release armor. This is all thanks to a jutsu created by the 2nd Hokage, Tobirama Senju, the Flying Rajin, only Minato had managed to improve the jutsu enough to work better on his suiting. Minato has also created the legendary Rasengan, a jutsu with the potential to kill an opponent, and become deadly enough if combined with a elemental chakra. Being the host of the YIN half of Kurama. Minato is able to tap into his chakra and use the Nine-Tail Chakra Mode, which improves his speed, strength and reflexes. This also gives him the ability to sense negative emotions. Minato can also go further and go into Tailed beast mode, allowing him to make a chakra manifest of Kurama himself. Minato also has Sage mode, but cannot keep it long for long, as he is only able to use a rasengan with it once before being turned back to his normal form.

Though with all this incredible feat Minato still has his weaknesses. His Flying Rajin may be fast, but as seen, it needs his sealing mark in order to be able to teleport to said location, which relies on his Kunais, or on him marking the seal on an object/person, This also doesn't help him against opponents who has fast enough reflexes to counter it, like Madara. Of course like all Jinchuriki Minato is limited to the Yin half of Kurama's Chakra, only giving him enough time to use it.

After calculating and looking through all this, in my opinion, Hashirama would win. Despite Minato's ability to use the Flying Rajin, Hashirama would recognize the ability, as it does belong to his brother. Sure Minato would not go easy on the 1st Hokage, Hashirama's notice towards his transformation into the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode would probably trigger him to use Wood style jutsu, Yes, Minato could land hits on Hashirama, but with Hashirama's healing factor, and his way of strategizing, he has the means to counter Minato's transformation, and flying rajin, all thanks to Wood release and Sage mode. Remember Hashirama was thought to be the weakest hokage, thinking that all of his special ability stated in history was false or a mere legend. This would be a close call indeed, but the advantage goes towards Hashirama, who would recognize Kurama's Chakra, and the flying Rajin.