Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-5110462-20140507152631/@comment-5110462-20140522124925

TheUltimate3 wrote: Most of the stuff Madara is pulling out of his ass has nothing to do with training. Remember, he only got the Rinnegan when he was so old he was about to die.

But honestly Kishimoto drew himself into a corner and he knew it by making Madara so unbelievably broken. The super power lottery overflowed and exploded with Madara and he couldn't logically make a situation where anyone but him was going to win without asspulling power to Naruto and Sasuke. I am glad to see that you agree that their powers are an ass-pull, but you are wrong on the Madara part, his powers aren't an ass-pull. He awakened the rinnegan when he was about to die, deciphered the stone tablet and summoned the Gedo Mazou and clinged on to the mazou to extend his life-span

The guy had plenty of time to master his rinnegan, after mastering the rinnegan's powers he gave them to nagato

But taught the rinnegan techniques to Obito who would go on to pass them to Nagato so that when the time's right Nagato sacrifices himself to revive Madara using Rinne Tensei Jutsu