Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28469898-20170228021817/@comment-26403664-20170228024334

Sakura is capable of greater strength than Tsunade, was capable of surprise attacking Shin Uchiha, has maybe surpassed Tsunade in her slug healing ninjutsu. Despite the lack of her speed and general combat prowess instinct, she is definitely not some weak ninja. It's just that the villains are so powerful. She is probably mid jonin level, but if Tsunade is a kage-level ninja, based upon what we have seen from both then Sakura also qualifies in terms of abilities, not intelligence but jutsu and combat strength. So low kage level. I feel like the Hyuga are down played as their abilities should seem much stronger then what they were actually portrayed and Neji being the best among them did have the potential of being a Kage level ninja, sort of like how Kakashi COULD (don't take this out of context please) match Gai in the eight gates, I think Neji had that same capability placing him at a least a low kage level. Lee once he learns the seventh and eight gate, and really gets more powerful than Gai, high level kage. We don't know enough about Shino in my opinion but I am willing to hear other's opinions. Shikamaru has the intellegence and the capability, but I think his power is a little lacking, if he could do more than his shadow jutsu then I think he would be a contender. Choji I think was wasted potential. Turning your arms and body to massive sizes already should make someone super strong physically. I wish the butterfly bombing technique was more powerful than shown because it really should seem that Choji or an Akamichi member could surpass Tsunade in brute strength especially in their expansion techniques. Hell the fact that they can grow into tailed beast sized giants should be enough for them to be ultra strong. But from what we have seen from Choji, I think he is high level jonin.