Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26704954-20160301064038/@comment-27660682-20160306080819

Prime hiruzen, tobirama, and minato all have the potential to get close and overwhelm hashirama because of flying rajin. So if they 3 v1 hashriama can't handle them all. I did forget the dynamic of the royal though. So it depends on who is singled out, and then kakashi could get in a sneak attack potentially, but there is no way he is coming out at the end.

@quaking star exactly, I had a hunch there was a huge plot hole I just couldn't find it. Tbh, that plot hole also happpened because Danzo wasn't originally supposed to be in the story, so he was shoehorned in. Just a lot of bad writing. Because of that, we can't say for certain if hiru zen being god of the shinobi took into account hashirama's true power, especially when that statement was made in part one.