Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-38071683-20191124044638/@comment-24824859-20191202171752

David Kibasennin wrote: Yeah but SM Jiraiya can do an Ultra Big Ball Rasengan too, and SM would most likely give him the ability to tank Naruto's attacks a couple of times. Clones can be drowned by a Goemon. Jiraiya's also got fire/wind/earth/water style jutsus, he's got the frog's genjutsu.

You're putting a guy who's got a variety of jutsu, plus, with sage mode, the ability of punching someone and flinging them away from the impact, vs a guy who can multiply himself and do variations of that one same technique. Naruto's version is much more powerful considering that he pretty much created one that blasted through the stump of a shinju and carried Momoshiki all the way to the upper atmosphere of a planet. A single Rasenshuriken would one-shot Jiraiya, badly damaging him and crippling his chakra network. A single buffed up Ultra Big-Ball Rasengan or a Rasenshuriken would do Jiraiya in. What is Goemon going to do against a clone rush from multiple directions? Jiraiya's only chance at winning is Frog Song (or Frog Call, whichever is the sound genjutsu), any other technique would be dodged, countered, or tanked.

From his brief fight against Momoshiki, it can be said that base Naruto is at the very least on par with SM Jiraiya in terms of strength, speed, durability, and taijutsu. Jiraiya may have the greater versatility, but Naruto's rather limited arsenal (in base) is more than enough to deal with Jiraiya.