Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-3273613-20151228121621/@comment-9782468-20160101093559

I forget who said it (someone on the forums), but someone said Sasuke is like a knife and Naruto is the artillery.

Basically, you get hit with a cannon ball or your throat gets slit. Either way you're just as dead.

They're equal because they're different. If we were to take the analogy seriously, Naruto can shoot his cannon at Sasuke while Sasuke attempts to make it in close to either slice Naruto up or disable the cannon.

Kishi wrote it so that at their skill/power levels, it'd basically be a toss-up of who'd win in that contest.

The reason they're equal is because while while Naruto has way more destructive power, Sasuke has way more precision.

We're not literally arguing whether or not a knife would beat a cannon; obviously the cannon would win. The way Kishi wrote the story, though, Sasuke has enough skill to make up for his lack of (Naruto level) raw power. Naruto has enough raw power to make up for his lack of (Sasuke level) skill.

It's literally been that way for the whole series lol.