Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26998824-20150920161424/@comment-26518343-20150925202231

BakumatsuWarrior wrote: Further proof comes from Kabuto during the War. Kabuto himself stated that Hashirama and Madara were so powerful that eventually the present generation thought their powers to be nothing more than myths and legends. Hiruzen was alive just 3 years before Kabuto made this statement. So had Prime Hiruzen really been Madara's equal, shinobis of the present generation would not have relegated Hashi and Madara's powers to the realm of myths.

Sort of spits on the idea of the next generation surpassing the previous one.