Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36632842-20180818184904/@comment-5085906-20180904135540

Lol. You had me at "Sasuke stomps Sakon and Ukon without activating his CM1". Truth is strip them off their hax, and both Part 1 Naruto and Sasuke were relatively average. Sure, they still charged ahead of MOST of the Konoha 11, but they were not at the top of their game. Both Lee and Neji could have easily manhandled Sasuke if they were pitted against one another in the Chuunin Exams and while I can't say the same about Kiba at that time due to his poor performance against Naruto (thought that could be because he underestimated him and because Naruto was sorta lucky), he proved himself during his fight against Sakon and Ukon. His Fang Over Fang managed to split both Sakon and Ukon IN HALF and they had their CM2 active at that time. If it wasn't for their Kekkei Genkai, which Sasuke doesn't have, they would have died right then and there.

Also, Kankuro didn't shit his pants. He showed some reluctance to it, but by the end he even volunteered to fight Sasuke while Temari saves Gaara. Even if that was the case, Naruto didn't want to fight Gaara either nor did Itachi want to fight Jiraiya. That doesn't mean they wouldn't be able handle them in a fight.

And why did you bring up Kiba's age and experience? He was around the same age as Sasuke and had roughly the same experience as him. Actually, after the Land of Waves arc, I'd argue Sasuke had the edge when it came to real-time battle experience.