Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36394790-20180824122210/@comment-34194151-20180904002608

@Cleoina

naruto mastered kage bunshin no jutsu chapter one, showing his intellect and understanding of chakra control. Kurama limited him in his other learning ventures. and you didn't address his feats, like his multiple victories, and freeing kakashi from the water prison. Naruto also killed a chunnin in chapter one. HE was still highly inexperienced in part one and he still was outsmarting people more experienced than him. He had his flaws and limitations (alot of inexperience) but he had good showings for being a genin. a chunnin level opponent wouldn't be able to outmanuever kakazu. kakazu defeated izumo and kotetsu (chunin) with low difficulty, didn't even use any hearts. Naruto was definitely jonin level. Kakashi isn't a fair benchmark, because kakashi was easily low kage level, he was one tier above jonin like asuma. naruto was like low jonin at start of the shippuden. And pls, naruto didn't learn sage mode under jiraiya because then sasuke would be too far behind. Kishimoto likes to keep naruto and sasuke as relative equals while oscilating their strength difference, they are no more than a tier apart at best at any given point in time, thus forcing them to catch up to one another. Even then, naruto stayed ahead of sasuke for a good while, as seen by sasuke even in part one complaining about naruto's continued growth. Hebi sasuke vs sage naruto would have been a stomp in naruto's favour.