Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-33485854-20180923223009/@comment-9782468-20180924130004

Littlegen wrote: How?

Kakashi = 2 years total as Team 7's sensei and a few unspecified as a potential Anbu captain

Tsunade = 4 Years of managing a village that has gone through two cataclysmic invasions. Kakashi has been leading teams since he was 13. Both as a Jonin and as an Anbu Captain. He's lead Obito and Rin (failed, but it's experience nonetheless), Team Ro in however many successful missions, Team 7, Team 10, the Akimichi duo, etc.

Also "Few unspecified missions" lemme correct that real quick. At the beginning of Part 1, Kakashi has completed 1,141 official missions in total: 197 D-rank, 190 C-rank, 414 B-rank, 298 A-rank, 42 S-rank. And in almost all missions we've seen him in, he was the leader. He started leading teams at 13, and was a Chunin (military captain) at age 6.

Tsunade wasn't called back to Konoha for her leadership skills, if you recall. She was called back so the 5 Nations would know that the Leaf was not under a weak leader after Hiruzen died in the Konoha Crush. And the Sannin were legendary. They did prefer Jiraiya, but Jiraiya didn't want to. Tsunade was called back just as a statement to the other nations.

And look at Tsunade. Extremely capable kunoichi. Extremely capable medical ninja. What leadership roles did she take before Hokage? None that we know of. We know she trained under Hiruzen with the rest of the Sannin. Then after Hiruzen left the team, the Sannin fought together anyways during the war. Then Jiraiya left and Tsunade worked on countering Chiyo's poisons. After the war, she developed haemophobia. We can assume she left the life of a Shinobi soon after.

Tsunade is extremely capable and she did pretty well as Hokage. But Kakashi was always shown to be more of a pragmatic leader