Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-35850816-20180611181629/@comment-734582-20180613205528

Sarutobii2 wrote: This is the edit that began it all. Sometime afterwards, Naruto chapter 120, page 4 was added as a ref for the feat but there's no such mention of that in the translation of the chapter i'm reading. The comments of both the anbu and Orochimaru imply that his water-release is definitely far above anything seen in the world.

I've been looking through the databooks, but i can't find anywhere that he explicitly was the best in his time. Though of all the known water jutsu, his are presented as the most impressive though.