Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-36006024-20180926134241/@comment-6769189-20180928032616

Logic does not dictate that that transmigrants are somehow stronger than their predecessors. Potentials do not stack.

Naruto/Sasuke can only be considered stronger than Hashirama/Madara by tge end of the war because they receieved power ups from Hagoromo. They couldnt even take on eyeless Madara but afterwards they were over powering 1 Rinnegan, Shinju absorbed, Juubidara.

Lets put it this way. If Naruto was the only character in the series, no matter how hard he worked, he wouldnt have reached the same level as Hashirama if Hashirama was the sole character in the series.

A majority of Naruto's strength comes from Kurama. Power that is not inherently his own. Power that he can only use by Kurama's good graces. Power that would have consumed him on multiple occasions had he not had other characters like Yamato, Minato, and Kushina to help him control it.

Hashirama literally subjigated all of the Tailed Beasts on his own, with powers and abilities that he honed over the years. Naruto was going to lose to half-Kurama without Bee and Kushina's help.