Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-4688597-20150529212008/@comment-28869806-20150602212052

Legendary Super Saiya-Jin 4 wrote: Why do people keep saying they're equal? They're not equal. During their final fight, Naruto lacked Yang Kurama, was nearly out of chakra from the other beasts, and lost most of his TSBs. While Sasuke didn't fully master his Rinnegan yet. But despite that, their final attacks were about equal in power since Sasuke used his Rinnegan's ability to steal chakra from the other beasts to put himself on Hagoromo's level, and Naruto had to absorb a shitton of natural energy to do the same. Had Naruto had Yang Kurama, the original amount of chakra the other beast gave him, and the rest of his very useful TSBs on top of the massive amount of natural energy he absorbed, he would have destroyed Sasuke. Even with Sasuke mastering all of his Rinnegan's abilities, most of the abilities would be useless against Naruto anyway and there's no way Sasuke is absorbing TSBs and that much senjutsu chakra, it just isn't happening, the Rinnegan was never depicted to be absorb TSBs and even if Sasuke has handled senjutsu chakra before doesn't mean he can handle Hagoromo's immense senjutsu chakra plus a vast amount of natural energy absorbed from the atmosphere in general, he would definitely turn to stone. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that Naruto is just too strong for Sasuke at this point. we say their equal because Kishi himself said they are end of discussion