Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-24168857-20150708081120/@comment-26848641-20150804221554

RikudoSasuke wrote: personally i dont think naruto and sasukes last fight is grounds for the argument that naruto > sasuke. simply because that fight was hax to the core.there were so many occasions on which sasuke could have killed naruto but didnt.just another example of plot no jutsu. with the bijuus chakra he should have made quick work of naruto, and he did, until plot no jutsu kicked in.without the beasts it would have been a more even fight ,ending in maybe a draw or naruto winning because while sasukes rinnegan needs to mature and he needs to learn to master it,while narutos powers are basically plug-and-play .but given the amount of time that has past and their lifestyles ,I think sasuke is stronger by now

Plot No Jutsu? That's one way of looking at it I suppose, a rather one sided view I might add. There were just as many if not more occasions during the fight where Naruto had the opportunity to land a decisive blow and end the fight yet for unknown reasons he didn't take the chance or he did but didn't attack Sasuke with his full power

Sasuke Needed to absorb and channel the power of the 9 beasts into his Jutsu and even then he was debatably equal to Naruto IF Sasuke hadn't taken the Beasts Chakra he most probably been hung out to dry

I don't really understand How anyone can make the "Sasuke wasn't at his Peak strength because he didn't have full control over the Power of the Rinnegan" or "Now Sasuke has had a chance to train/mature his rinnegan Naruto won't stand a Chance" arguments Because if you don't consider Sasuke a master of Rinnegan by the time he fought Naruto then you can't consider anyone one. Yin Kurama himself told us that Sasuke was using the Rinnegans power at the same level as the Sage of the Six paths frankly it doesn't get better than that