Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-4688597-20150529212008/@comment-25442883-20150601124116

Chakra absorption indeed is Rinnegan power, but some of u don't get what others are talking ... imagine if beasts wasn't there at time, Sasuke wouldn't be able to absorb their chakra even if he have the ability but on the other side Naruto would be able to gather senjutsu cuz natural energy is everywhere.

In the end it was a tie indeed but Sasuke statment that he lost is because Naruto even at disadvantage matched him, that's why he said he lost. This shows that Naruto is indeed stronger (i'm not saying by far don't get me wrong) and as someone already mentioned good always win, same was with Hashi-Madara and probably with Ashura-indra (we don't know but we can assume)