Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-28731007-20160627160729/@comment-5936871-20160709073633

I agree that Kimimaro is the victor because he is a great counter but Tsunade is being vastly underrated in this thread. I have no idea where people got the idea that Tsunade is slow and that Kimimaro can run circles around her. This is just blatantly false, not only was Tsunade never depicted as slow in the series itself; but her feats suggest otherwise. She trained Sakura in the art of evasion and reading your opponent's moves, Madara deemed her as a great enough threat in close-range combat to use Susanoo against her and not even bother dodging her, she was fast enough to coordinate an attack with a flying V2 A, pressure Madara enough to make him create and switch places with a Wood Release Shadow Clone so that he could attack her from a distance, quickly leap across a large area and intercept a high-speed long-ranged attack from Madara within the same timespan it took for Mei to form a single hand seal, and survive an encounter with five humanoid legged Susanoos (without being decapitated or bisected).

Basically, she isn't slow whatsoever and that is something people made up. Her absurd physical strength, good speed, and naturally large stamina when coupled with her Strength of a Hundred Seal (which further amplifies her abilities and grants her massive reserves) virtually makes her immortal (as she stated she can regenerate any damaged organ or limb except for obviously the brain). There is also Katsuyu, who has been depicted as being pretty much invulnerable to physical and corrosive damage, and can produce acid that can melt through solid rock and the ground. Katsuyu can also split up and divide into multiple smaller variants who can all communicate telepathically, absorb the body of other's into their own to protect them from harm, and produce acid that was implied and stated to be able to kill Manda and Orochimaru (despite his ridiculous regeneration and resilience).

In conclusion, Tsunade is not slow or "useless" by any means of the word. She's one of the strongest if not possibly the strongest kunoichi in the series. I recall it being stated (correct me if I'm wrong) that her revision of the medical-nin system and work during the Second Shinobi World War was one of the main reasons why they won, had it not been for her Naruto might've died, Kakashi would've been stuck in a coma forever, and even more people would have died against Pain and Obito (cause she used Katsuyu to protect and heal people). She deserves some respect.