Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36006024-20180914132456/@comment-34194151-20180914212635

@Lyon

That was a BASE hashirama wood clone. Wood clones are slower and weaker than the original as per canon when edo madara one shotted them with ease and stated it, plus that was edo tensei hashi, and madara stated hashirama was weaker than in life due to edo tensei, plus hashirama noticed a growth in power when edo madara came back to life via rinne tensei. SM alive hashirama with SS could give juubito a much better fight, though obito would still win with like mid-diff. hashi's sage mode was able to react to tobirama's FTG, whereas juubito failed to properly react to it multiple times. in fact he needed to predict FTG in order to counter it properly. juubito was shit-blitzing everyone in the beginning and then they got used to his speed a bit. Hashirama has the endurance and SM sensing necessary to stay in the fight to avoid getting one shot-blitz from sasuke.

If madara wasn't jobbing to sasuke he could have simply absorbed his attack with the preta barrier. Sasuke could pressure him with his speed but that's different than a wtf-blitz. Also, I doubt madara was trying to kill sasuke or naruto, his goal was to one-shot with IT. a jobbing madara could mentally react to guy bending space yet he can't react to sasuke? it's an outlier. Sasuke is fast enough to pressure hashirama and ultimately win, but this isn't a shit blitz 0 difficulty win for him. sasuke actually needs to try here.