Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26545929-20150630030815/@comment-734582-20150701110115

Yalocalsupahero wrote: So a deadlock right? That's what I thought too. By the end of the series I think Orochimaru has a leg up. Mainly because he finally has a body capable of using Sage mode or Sage Transformation for himself. And what was a tie becomes a slaughter. Yea the wood release (though he never seems to use it) would give him a leg up, but the entire thematic of the Sanin is the Three Way Deadlock suggesting they're all equally powerful. That's the entire point of their summons and animal-inspired powers.