Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32617252-20180624185603/@comment-26107879-20180711145955

@Elve

So your argument now is because he was able to reanimate him, he's better than him? Damn. Orochimaru must be pretty strong if he's stronger than Hashirama according to you. Or Kabuto must have been stronger than I thought, since he reanimated a handful of high ranking shinobi including Itachi (who beat him). Or better than Hashirama infused Madara with Rinnegan since he summoned him. Yeah..... No.

When was it stated that a requirement of Reanimation is that you have to be stronger than the one you summon? I don't recall this ever being said. What I did see was that Orochimaru could only control the Hokage at closer to their full power due to Hashirama's DNA which he clearly doesn't have in this fight stated in the OP. Soooooo.