They are not frauds, especially Gaara, who is likely the strongest non-hokage Kage in the show.

Gotta break the ice for once, they are frauds. As the big 4 Hokage, I expect them to at least be more powerful with a lot of action like how they were in Shippuden in the war arc, but no. They got fodderized by Kinshiki and Momoshiki (before Gaara had to try his best and succeed in trapping Kinshiki) which Garra carried. The blue haired Kage was relative towards the 3rd Tailed Beasts ancestor, essentially fodder in the show, and in another arc, Ohnoki's clone jumped another Kage and she just let them put cuffs on her. Her only resistance was summoning some stone in her arms and trying to fight which she failed miserably. The new Kage are utterly pathetic in my opinion.

Yeah I completely forgot the characters names too.

I’ll vouch for Gaara but that’s it

I’ll also get some hate for this but I think Chojuro is the weakest Mizukage of his village history. 2nd Mizukage, Yagura, and Mei are a lot stronger.

@Tim Xman chojuro kept up in a fight against otsutsuki

Mei got stomped by Edo Madara

The Boruto era Kage are just objectively stronger than any Kage that came before them

@A Professional Idiot mk.2 Urashiki isn’t really the best example. And chojuro got sliced by Kinshiki and had help from Kurotsuchi and Sasuke.

I didn’t say anything about Urashiki

He could keep up in the Kinshiki/Momoshiki fight

Even Hashirama couldn’t keep up with Revived Madara, much less Juubidara, who isn’t as strong as Kinshiki or Momoshiki

The fact that he could react or be relevant in that fight at all scales him and the other Boruto era Kage above literally every other Kage in history besides naruto

I see, maybe I underestimated him

Yeah honestly I feel like nobody WANTS the Boruto era Kage to be that strong, since they aren’t very interesting as characters and it doesn’t feel like they earned their strength, but they’re all just absurdly strong

"Absurdly strong" is what I wouldn't put it as. Just the 4 of them were barely able to subdue Kinshiki and they've already shown that on their own individually, they suck. They just can't keep up with the new villains like Otsutsuki.

I bet Hashirama could have a better performance because the power scaling in Naruto is inconsistent. He still has way better capabilities and feats. If Chojuro and Kurotsuchi had poor performance individually on separate arcs, it only makes sense that Hashirama can do way better.

4 normal humans with no unique abilities or six paths power beat an Otsutsuki who’s stronger than Juubidara

I’d consider that “absurdly strong”