Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28846843-20160625201600/@comment-28885945-20160630233641

what would he be better at in his prime? chakra reserves are higher and better physicals. That doesn't matter Hashirama was strong af could heal himself better than Tsunade, he may use Sage mode to make his wood techniques bigger but he doesn't even need it for his golem or dragon he only used it for the massive 1000 armed buddha thing. Hiruzen has no special talents he's just a guy who can use all "regular" jutsu very well that isn't the same as having a massive golem pummel you, he may have more jutsu but I would take tailed beast bomb and a kurama avatar with no other powers over anything he can dish out. the reason why jutsu like a fireball is not used by the end of the series besides distraction or for fodder is because the top tier ninja like hashirama, naruto, sasuke, madara won't be phased by it, you need a killing blow and with people on top of or inside massive battle avatars thats hard to do.