Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25498052-20141004162612/@comment-362960-20141108195319

EternalMangekyoSharinnegan wrote: Amaterasu, no? Long-ranged crossbow sniping, no? Blaze release, no? Susanoo speed, no? Lightning release and Kirin, no? All of those aspects lead me to declare Sasuke would win. Brute force isn't everything. In fact, I'd even go as far to say that everything I listed is more important than the susanoo's pure destructive capability, which you guys are crediting way too much. I can't imagine that any of those things would put Sasuke over Madara though. EMS to EMS. Amaterasu is blocked by Susano'o just like Naruto's Kyubi cloak did. His bow is nice, but Madara can launch Magatama just as easily. Blaze Release is extremely powerful but they're using the same absolute defense so it's in the same boat as Amaterasu. Raiton is interesting, and I am curious as how Madara would deal with it without his enhanced physiology, but Kirin was blocked by a dying Itachi's Susano'o, Madara would be impressed by unfazed.

I'd give Madara the nod primarily because he just has a far greater wealth of knowledge to draw on. I also think that Madara has superior basics to draw on. His taijutsu, his genjutsu, his ninjutsu. The scale of his Katon is far beyond anything Sasuke or Itachi ever displayed. He's a different shinobi for a different era. A more powerful violent era.