Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31948035-20170701223045/@comment-25122992-20170703211611

Bipedmango wrote: jiraiya was able to suppress narutos v2 with earth style and when he was drugged he was still able to incapacitate two giant snakes and i'm not saying gama could take gyuki alone or any other tailed beast he's always needed help but gama knows what he's up against and fought two others before and jiraiya has more summons than just gamabunta As far as I know, Jiraya holding Naruto off with earth style belongs to the anime-only IT filler (the one called "Jiraya's Handbook Tale of Naruto the Hero) and thus the feat doesn't count. Moreover, it pretty much doubtable that Biju power can be restrained by such a regular ninjutsu.

As for "going toe to toe with Shukaku", in the first part of the fight, Shukaku wasn't fully powered (it was still Gaara who controlled the avatar) and thus weaker, and when it got the control Gamabunta himself admitted they have to wake up Gaara in order to win, since he was no match for Shukaku himself. The only thing Gamabunta could be useful for is a temporary restrainment or a distraction, but not the real fight with the Beast one on one.