Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-29908830-20180221011538/@comment-11891028-20180223141650

Seems like both Sasuke and Naruto would have some limitations in a pre-Konoha crush setting as Sasuke's curse mark is only stage one, whilst Naruto hasn't learned Rasengan yet. If they were fought each other in a similar way to the Valley of the End in their current conditions then Naruto wouldn't really have anything to match against Sasuke's chidori, but I think Sasuke wouldn't have as much durability without his stage two curse mark.

Even so, other than whatever skills they learned from the academy (excluding shadow clones), Sasuke would have the sharingan, chidori, curse mark in first stage and whatever buffs he got from following Lee's training regime, whilst Naruto has shadow clones (en masse), summoning jutsu and version 1 jinchuriki form (demon fox cloak). So all in all, I'd say that Naruto has strength in numbers, durability and unpredictability whilst Sasuke is better with ninjutsu, taijutsu, potentially genjutsu (though I don't recall him using the sharingan to cast genjutsu until joining Orochimaru, so may or may not know how to do this at the moment) and strategies.

Assuming that Sasuke isn't allowed to use his curse mark, and Naruto can't use version 1 jinchuriki form, then I'd probably say that Sasuke would be more likely to come out on top, otherwise Naruto may well have the upper hand with the demon fox cloak, as Sasuke needed stage two in order to fight on par with a one-tailed Naruto.

Seems like the Shinobi world hasn't had much luck with Chunin exams recently, as the 3 we saw (including Boruto's) got interrupted or cancelled before they were ever completed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯