Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34672788-20180212114029/@comment-34720031-20180217010710

Vladosaurus wrote: The wood dragon also absorbs chakra, and can also be used heavenly in combat. And c'mon, Hashirama cracked a room by only releasing his chakra, as an EDO. And EDOs are weaker than alive selves. Do you really think that the paths can match him? The animal summons are easily dealt with considering Hashirama's feats with wood release. Same for the asura paths. Preta path drastically loses to a wood dragon, or a wood clone for that matter. The wood Golem matched Madara's Perfect Susanoo.Which is at least bijuu level. The Deva Path barely dealt with a 6 tails version of Naruto. The Wood Golem could simply squash him. CT can be countered with Wood Release, again. But honestly, Hashirama only bring the Wood Golem if he wants an easy win. Even with just the Wood Dragon he wins. SM is just overkill.

Be honest with yourself though, you know good and well that the deva path that dealt with the 6 tails naruto was FIERCELY drained of chakra. After destroying Konoha alone with his shinra tensei took a lot of chakra- which is why he stopped controlling the other paths of Pain just to use the technique. Now fast forward to after he wasted more chakra fighting off SM Naruto and Kyuubi naruto.

Anyway, if Hashirama is fighting the Paths of Pain, I’d have to say Hashirama wins easily. He can test their abilities using wood kagebushin and I don’t believe Pain would be able to tell the difference of a wood clone from the real thing. He would have a problem with the Naraka path (the one that make your tongue fly out of your mouth.) -even though KID Konohamaru defeated him on some bs. The animal path could make those centipedes to dig through the ground to try to find Hashi but they wouldn’t be a problem for Hashirama unless they found his hiding spot, which subsequently exposes his location because even the animal summons share vision with the Paths of Pain. Hashirama with his emense chakra, healing factor and Wood release techniques would ultimately win. But if he fought Nagato, I don’t think he would win.