Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28861328-20140618060932/@comment-20077569-20140703194955

Deathmailrock wrote: Actually, it wasn't exactly the Uchiha being inferior to the Senju but Madara being inferior to Hashirama.... the clans over all were about equal. If one guy got the Senju, the other side would hire the Uchiha....

It should also be noticed that Madara and his brother Izuna at some point started to go blind, so the Uchiha was being led by blind guys...

Over all, the clans themselves were probably equal, it was the leaders that made the real difference....

No that is not true because in his flashback with Sasuke questions, Hashirama says "everyone could see that the Uchiha were clearly inferior in our battles."

He would have said that only Madara and Izuna were inferior but no that theme of being inferior to the Senju ran through the whole clan.

They were just about even but clearly there is a reason why the Senju is known as the most powerful clan and there is a reason the Uchiha began to surrender to them willingly.