Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26388300-20150718023043/@comment-734582-20150721145547

BakumatsuWarrior wrote: That's pretty much retconned. The manga clearly indicates that Hashirama was the strongest Hokage before Naruto came up with Hagoromo asspulls. Hiruzen is at best the second-strongest after Hashirama, though personally I think Tobirama>Hiruzen by a slight margin. I disagree. However, discussions like this is exactly why i would like to see Hiruzen fight, because compared to the other Hokage, his amount of spotlight as a Ninja is pathetic.

Also since this thread is about unfulfilled fan desires, I would add that watching Naruto develop a wide and versatile arsenal of jutsus was one of my strongest desires during Shippuden. Yea i think Naruto's arsenal is missing a few jutsu. For instance, he has no gap-closer other than just tanking the damage. He has no jutsu to force a reaction (other than more Rasenshuriken/Rasengan jutsu), or to counter an attack. No defensive jutsu other than a chakra cloak. He has a Summon but that has it's own obvious problems. I can't help but feel that unlike Sasuke, his fighting style is simply missing a bunch of abilities.