Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-2064642-20180217165859/@comment-30323490-20180321075055

@Daboiwunda Yet Hashirama ended up being by far the strongest Hokage of the first 5. Way stronger than Minato himself. And please, let's not read too much into "Hiruzen knew every jutsu from Konoha"...i mean c'mon. Even about Kakashi was said that he "copied 1000 jutsus" and he ever used like 5-6. "Prime" Hiruzen's fighting style would be similar to "Old" Hiruzen's fighting style. He didn't even used any "special unseen jutsu" against Kurama, and that was 12 years ago from part 1, when he resigned his first Hokage run for a year or so. Orochimaru stated that if Hiruzen would've been 10 years younger he would've beaten him or something like that. Yet here we are 12 years in the past from part 1 and Hiruzen is using the same things and same jutsus as he does as an old guy.

I give this fight to Minato, prime Hiruzen or not.