Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5273810-20150721161252/@comment-26388300-20150814064845

Not an easy match to call. If we're just focusing on Part One... ... Kakashi. He's faster, he has more experience with real battle, and he has a great variety of jutsu to form a strategy around. Gaara is a prodigy, he makes that very clear in becoming the Kazekage so quickly. But Kakashi is still smarter and more versatile.

Perhaps a better question would be: who would win between these two in their stable primes? I say "stable prime", meaning the characters at their best without temporary power-ups, such as Kakashi with duel-Sharingan. Who would win in a Part Two battle, Kakashi full strength and health, single MS, and Gaara full strength and health?

In that battle I'd be tempted to again give Kakashi the slight advantage, but I dunno... it'd be a very hard call to make.