Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26388300-20160506202426/@comment-26704954-20160508043906

I see enormous amounts of Chakra Worship in the Versus section on this site. Seriously, thumb through some of the past threads created; as a general rule of thumb, the character with the most bombastic chakra reserve is listed as the champion. Users do so in error: not only do comparable situations in real life not work that way, but the manga itself doesn't work that way. In fact, in all of the fiction I've read and analyzed in my life (and teaching literature for a living, that's quite a lot), the mere fact that a character is a cannon is not a suitable argument for the fact that they;d succeed one way or the other. There are a host of factors at play, many of them listed above by @A True Sage.

Wolverine defeated the Hulk. Spider-Man defeated the entirety of the X-Men, at one point. In 1783 America defeated a far more armored Great Britain. Batman, using stealth and strategic superiority, once picked apart the Justice League alone.

The "bigger guns win" delusion is consistently expounded on in the world of anime (a world I love, admittedly). Goku can't defeat Cell? He trains. Does he defeat Cell due to an improvement in skill? Not generally, no; he wins because he trained and became capable of projecting and sustaining more power. The Naruto series is less a member of this sort than most. Do you see Krillin standing a chance against Golden Frieza? No. But what about the Konoha 11 in the Fourth Shinobi World War? Yes, actually; they made great contributions to the war effort. In Naruto, it isn't so much "power" as it is "skill". Hence, all of the illustrations in the manga and anime showing the how-they-did-it after they did it.

Kakashi is not only smarter than Kisame, he is damn powerful regardless. His stamina is less a factor than his skill; hell, Itachi has some of the most feeble stamina in the series and he is amazing in battle. Why? Did he cannon his way to victory? No, he was simply smarter.

Kakashi is simply smarter. Sorry guys. Unless Kisame catches Kakashi in an environment that's very unusual or simply disadvantageous, Kakashi wins with high difficulty.