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Hadn’t Gaara canonically killed multiple Jonin by the time he got introduced?
If he wasn’t even Jonin level, I’d assume one of the assassins would’ve killed him
Shikamaru was also Chunin level and Gaara could easily make quick work of him. Gaara was able to defeat a Jonin level fighter-that being Kimimaro-who struck fear into the heart of Tayuya, who is a Jonin level fighter herself. I'm not saying that Gaara is on the same level Kakashi necessarily, Kakashi still outclasses him in terms of intelligence, but in terms of power and stamina, he arguably does have the feats to back it up. I also consider 1T Naruto and CM2 Sasuke to have already been Jonin level as well, maybe not on the level of Kakashi, but they had far surpassed the normal limits of any normal Jonin at that point, same as Gaara. The tiers of power between Genin, Chunin, and Jonin become blurred very quickly; based on the feats of characters that were considered to be Chunin level by the time of the exams, Gaara far outclasses them.
Also idk about him being above 1T Naruto or CM2 Sasuke
Sasuke especially would probably beat him one on one because of Chidori, Naruto might be able to just overpower him with raw stats and rasengan (plus Kurama regen)
@Chezzy SSJ4 8G Guy & Stable Juubito are both in the same tier. 8G Guy would smack Juubito around though (but would still survive and somewhat hold his own at least). Tayuya is not Jonin level. She fought Genma & Raido who were basically out of chakra and she had to go into CM2 including the other members and even after they won, they had to rest afterwards. A Jonin level character wouldn't be huffing and puffing after fighting a Special Jonin who was basically out of chakra. Also, Shikamaru is barely Low Chunin.
@A Professional Idiot mk.2 Not sure but even if that was the case, it's not like they couldn't have been weak Jonin's. For example, Ebisu is a Special Jonin but is Chunin level. Gaara does have a lot of good feats that would put him at Low Jonin in the SRM.
Ok yeah but like why would all of the assassins be weak shinobi?
Like did he just get lucky and Rasa kept picking weak guys who seemed strong?
Because the assassination attempts were kinda implied to be a somewhat regular thing if I remember right
The assassinations only happened six times. One of the main reasons that Gaara survived was just because none of the shinobi could gain speed beyond Gaara's sand shield. It was also stated that CE Sasuke was Chunin level and he was above Gaara
@IKTime They literally weren't; only one guy who didn't even participate in the fight said he was fatigued. Sure they were a little bit from doing recon for a while, but none of them complained or showed any signs of fatigue besides that one irrelevant guy. Where did you get that they used CM2; it didn't even show the fight and only showed them transforming into the first stage, not the second.
@Chezzy SSJ4 They were coming back a from a mission and Raido says he didn't think it would take this long implying fatigue with Genma confirming this when Tsunade visited them in the hospital saying that they were out of chakra
Also, they did fight in CM2. Tayuya says this after the fight is over and Kidomaru implies it further by saying if they held back, they would've died.
@IKTime I see.
What do you think?