Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-24142271-20150908120744/@comment-26518343-20150909155252

Munchvtec wrote: In this battle, Kimimaro will be at his strength before he died but healthy. Meaning he has no restrictions.

Then my gut tells me Gaara finds a way to beat him. His "siblings" made short work of a couple of Kimimaro's lackeys in the Sound Four on the mission to retrieve Sasuke, guys that Kimimaro had already made short work of before himself to become leader of the Sound Five. Around this same time, Gaara also first fights Kimimaro. At that point, Gaara was stronger than his siblings and presumably gets quite a bit stronger and more knowledgeable between this arc and the Summit. Meanwhile, this fight pits him against a healthier Kimimaro who has no new techniques and hasn't gotten "better" other than in health. So I vote Gaara.

Sarutobii2 wrote: Pretty sure this wiki is nearly at the point of banning Prime Hiruzen from the forums like we did with shipping discussions. Either discuss Kimimaro vs Gaara or take it somewhere else.

Concepts like Prime Hiruzen are like forbidden fruit to some of these guys, though. In the entire Naruto universe, how many characters do we meet who were legitimately in their prime age-wise and 100% healthy? Hardly any. Darn near everybody was either ridden with illness, past their prime or still a young, developing ninja.

About the only people we ever meet who are fully healthy (relatively speaking) and seem to be in their prime (or close to it) from an age standpoint are Asuma, Kakashi, Guy, Zabuza, Kisame, Shizune, Kabuto and Deidara. Even then, at least a couple of those names are dicey when it comes to saying they are in their absolute prime.