Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1018594-20150721025435/@comment-1018594-20150722045936

Yalocalsupahero wrote:

I'm also in favor of using the Databooks even if we disregard the stats. The databooks themselves are canon material by Kishimoto. Allowing them to be left out means anyone could leave out any canon they don't like.

Nobody's saying we should disregard the databooks. The stats don't really add much to a Versus battle because 1) Most Part II characters don't have stats and 2) They're broken as hell. Characters like Jiraiya and Itachi, who were given a 35.5 out of a possible 40, are nowhere near as powerful as the main characters are by the end of the series. They're incredibly unreliable and thus, useless. However, as WindStar pointed out, there's still some users who shove them down everyone's throats in Versus threads.