Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-9782468-20150308163348/@comment-1018594-20150325142431

TheUltimate3 wrote:

You can't pick a time when they fought the same villain because they did not fight that guy at the same time. Gotta pick a time when they both were at their prime, so basically when Jiriaya died for him and the end of the war for Naruto.

The first sentence of the original post states that Naruto and Jiraiya are at the levels they were when they fought Pain during this match-up.