Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26005711-20150512133037/@comment-734582-20150720114452

Whitequeen666 wrote: Second, Hiruzen cannot use The Flying Thunder God Jutsu or many other high class jutsu. He is able to use a large number of jutsu but none that are on the power level of the rasenshuriken or Amaterasu for example. The only jutsu that Hiruzen has used that is on that power level is the dead demon consuming seal (aka the reaper death seal), which is self sacrificial. So yes, although he is a powerful shinobi, I wouldn't say that he is as powerful as Tobirama. Tobirama has been stated in canon to be just slightly less powerful than Hashirama and Madara when they were all alive. Hiruzen has never been close to that level. In short, my point is that Hiruzen has more quantity than Tobirama but Tobirama has a good deal of quantity and a ton more quality than Hiruzen.

Sorry to all the Hiruzen fans. He is a worthy Hokage and powerful shinobi. It's just that Tobirama has the tactics we saw in the war, unmatched water element, the flying thunder god jutsu, the summoning impure resurrection jutsu, and he created the shadow clone jutsu. Can you please point out a part in the Manga where we see Hiruzen use his full power against a worthy opponent? because i couldn't find it. Hiruzen, other than maybe 2 scenes where he uses a jutsu, is completely and utterly ignored during the entire Fourth Shinobi war. Where Tobirama, Hashirama and Minato get a massive spotlight showing off some of their finest jutsu, Hiruzen strolls in and casually makes a giant barrier and casually stops 5 powerful elemental blasts and then he appears near the end and that's it. We don't get to see any super-powerful techniques he uses. Hell, we don't even KNOW Hiruzen's most powerful technique.

During part 1 he was a 70-year old Hokage far past his prime. Hell he could barely create two Shadowclones, something a lowly Genin like Naruto beat him at. Yet even though he was old, weak and barely in any fighting state he defeated a Sennin with two Edo Tensei.