Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26545929-20150630030815/@comment-3568954-20150630214912

QuakingStar

nothing in the databook actually says they are base stats NOTHING case in point 5 is the highest rating you can get in an individual stat if a person has a 5 in stamina its impossible for that to be solely base stat as the number can not go over 5

also even if they were base stats that wouldn't matter as if didn't account for things such as senjutsu then it would be pointless to argue that itachi was deathly sick because even if it was a base stat and you remove itachi's sickness and then you factor in jiraiya using senjutsu and all his enhancements sure itachi would increase his rating with his full power but so would jiraiya meaning it would equal out no matter what state they are in ie no matter what Jiraiya would be the strongest of the 3

another factor you have to take into account

is that nagato specifically says that if jiraiya had known the secret of the six paths puppet jutsu he would have defeated nagato this tells us how powerful jiraiya truly is. he only lost because he was trying to figure out the secrets of nagato's jutsu