Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26704954-20160301064038/@comment-27660682-20160309071153

Yes, I'll explain why I feel tobirama has about a 20 percent chance to beat his older brother. - We can agree is smarter. Because tobirama lacked hashirama's brawns, he needed to compensate with brains as it was the only way for him to survive the harsh warring states era. The reason he created the flying rajin was to mitigate the sharingan's ability to track his movement, so he basically found a space time jutsu that served that purpose completely. When it comes to batte field intelligence, tobirama is up there, one only needs to reference how well he comboed attacks with people he never fought with before against the Ttj. Hashriama is strong and experience d, but he never showed the high level tactics tobirama has.

Because of the flying rajin, tobirama can do what most ninja can't, which is to get close to hashirama once he starts spamming his broken wood techs. He has the ability to tag any object, including hashriama, allowing him to instantly control his position on the battlefield. In addition to his kunais, tobirama can just use his massive suitons to send tagged objects near hashriama's location and close the distance that way. That bypasses the problem of hashirama's long range tactics. Especially since hashirama's best wood techs, while sturdy, do not protect hashriama directly like susanoo does. He is simply riding on top of them

Once tobirama is close how ever, he still will have to deal with mokuton, but he can simply use Suiton: Suidanha, which easily cut through the god tree, to counter those wood offenses. From there it, is matter of managing to tag hashirama, and from there, that's when tobirama's chance of winning goes up. With hashirama tagged, tobirama can can spam powerful jutsu at point blank range. But of course here, is when hashriama has huge advantages. For one, he has more stamina, stronger chakra, and most importantly,  a healing factor. And once we consider the boosts from sage mode, he simply outstats tobirama. So tobirama needs to land a killing blow or else he will simply be outlasted by hashirama, and one slip up could also mean his death. Hashriama's sage mode perception gives him a huge advantage in reacting to tobirama's attacks, but it still is no sharingan. So I believe here, 2 times out of ten, tobirama can land a decapitating or mutilating blow to hashirama by utilizing shadow clones to teleport to the tagged hashirama while also having the option to retreat to other flying rajin markers to overlay more attacks from those locations as well. Most of the time however, he won't be able to and will get rekt by hashirama or simply outlasted.

On a side note, because this battle has 3 flying rajin users, all of them have the opportunity to pressure hashriama in this way.