Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26388300-20160405070243/@comment-26773508-20160504175759

@XShadyShadow: I agree with everything you said, except for the relative size of the PS and the meteors Madara pulled with his Tengai Shinsei. The meteor is definitely bigger as its area enveloped the entire shinobi squadron Gaara and Onoki were leading.

But that is irrelevant to this fight because Hashi has little use of his Thousand-Armed Buddha against the 5 Kage. That jutsu is meant to deal with something as big and powerful as Kyuubi, Perfect Susanoo and Majestic Attire: Susanoo. The Kages don't have any jutsu of that scale and don't have any giant summons comparable in size to Kurama. So using the thousand-armed Buddha would just be a waste of chakra. Hashi can simply defeat the Kage with his other Wood Jutsus that are smaller in size but more precise in weeding out the Kages.

Also, yeah you're right in pointing out that Madara didn't use his PS to slaughter the Kage. He claimed that his PS was reputed throughout the ninja world as a jutsu that a shinobi (other than Hashirama) could see only once, because they wouldn't survive the encounter to see it again. And since Edo Madara was temporarily destabilized due to Itachi undoing the Edo Tensei, he thought that it would be a disgrace to unleash the PS again, which would mean that the Kages would be given the opportunity to witness the might of the PS for a second time. So Madara simply butchered the Kage with something else; something less powerful. He could have easily done that in the beginning, but instead he was just toying around.