Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26388300-20160524034125/@comment-28247797-20160524041724

Few problems with your list, Minato is no where near above Madara. No where close, especially not in terms of raw skill. Minato has sage mode but is bad with it and Kyuubi mode wouldn't put much in his favor considering Madara is literally better than him in every conceivable way except for speed, but Susano'os defense would make it mostly ineffective. Secondly, Nagato is solidly above Jiraiya for sure. I think Nagato would actually be above Tobirama as well but can't say for sure. Jiraiya doesn't belong on a top 5 list in terms of raw skill IMO.

1)Hashirama (Which is debatable actually, in terms of skill and if him and Madara were cleaned of their techniques I wonder who between him and Madara were actually more skilled. Madara easily absorbed a vast majority of the ten tails and made quick work of Hashirama's sage mode as soon as he got it. Probably Hashi, but still food for thought.)

2)Madara No one in terms of raw experience, skill, and intelligence even comes close to him aside from Hashirama. Thinking Minato > Madara is fanfiction lol. Madara gained Hashirama's SM in which is better than Minato's and mastered it with no eyes in mere moments. Minato couldn't even use his own SM decently and never mastered it. Madara would manhandle Minato.

3)Nagato, he mastered the Rinnegan's basic abilities.

4)Tobirama, I think Tobirama and Itachi are around the same skill level. I was torn between the two but since Tobirama has fought Uchiha's all his life, I don't think there would be anything Itachi could do that would surprise him and I'm sure he's use to genjutsu and has some form of resistance to it.

5) Itachi - In terms of skill, the guy is pretty wise and very analytical.