People are vastly underestimating 3rd Raikage and Over estimating Kabuto.
They arguments here are just absurb. Kabuto has DSM sensing allowing him to react quickly, but that doesn't mean he's now super fast. He's still up against a high speed kage who could also effortlessly dodge his attacks.
Then we have people talking about Soound 5 abilities 'enhanced by SM', which is a blatant lie. The sound 5 already had their abilities enhanced by a pseudo SM when they used it -- Cursed seal version 2 -- and they were still beaten by a bunch of genins. For that matter, it's not even Kabuto that uses their abilities. Kabuto uses sakon's technique to deconstruct and reconstruct his molecules so that he can use the sound 5 DNA within him to protrude them from his stomach and have them use their jutsu. From the scan's we've seen, Kabuto's abilities are vassstttllyyyyy inferior to even that of the Sound 5.
base Kidomaru[
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] - identical. Infact, Sasuke ripped through it with enton sword. 3rd raikage's raiton powered slashes would rip through these webs with ease
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- Inferior to the umpteenth power.
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- inferior. It doesn't even matter that they had a sharingan because they'd still see the jutsu. Sharingan only makes them notice they're in a genjutsu so that they can break it but they'd still experience it.
And so forth. Clearly these abilities aren't being enhanced by kabuto's SM. For that matter, sound gen is far less useful in such a wide area with little acoustics and walls to bounce sound. Kabuto would have to be in raikage's face to use this jutsu. Kabuto's going to use sakon, then kimimaro, then tayuya while standing 10 feet from 3rd raikage? lol, no. He'd get destroyed. He isn'tdodging forever without that roof to jump onto.
Then, there are the people who talk about white Rage. White rage, come on. What is this supposed to do? Itachi of all people was able to use his susano'o through it and it doesn't matter one bit that he was an edo. He still felt pain like a normal person and gritted his teeth like a normal person. If the vibrations didn't affect him, kabuto wouldn't have used that jutsu. White rage isn't stopping 3rd raikage, nor is it even going to release his raiton armor boosting his defences. Kabuto literally has 0 attacks to affect him. Even Base Raikage tanked a Combination Cast Net jutsu. He tank a high level cutting jutsu that was derived from the element he was
weak to. Kabuto has nothing on that scale.
Outlasting raikage? Ha! that's highly unlikely. Kabuto still has to use chakra to do all what he does such as jutsu, oral rebirth, etc. Sage Mode doesn't compensate for 0 chakra reserves. Raikage lasted 2 damn days. Kabuto has no conceivable feat to suggest he can fight for even 1 day, let alone 2. In a battle of attrition he gets vastly out gunned.
Hydrification? Clearly useless. If he gets restrained or raikage shunshins to him then uses black lightning while he's dodging, kabuto is taking all that damage and has to heal it off. It doesn't matter whether or not raikage can kill him through his oral rebirth and healing because all of that is heavy on chakra. Kabuto would drain his chakra quickly. SM naruto could only shoot off 2 rasenshuriken before he was tanked showing us that there is a chakra limit on sage mode. Kabuto will exceed that quickly.
Chakra scalpels? Lol? That only works on a restrained opponent. Kabuto won't even have the time to stay still to metamorphasize sakon, kimimaro and tayuya. White rage isn't restraining the guy with iron blood and skin for long either, that's if it would in the first place. All raikage would have to worry about is the Bright light and sound, but, most importantly he is
very fast as a kage. Anyone seeing such an attack coming towards them would more than obviously try to evade it. Infact, itachi thought it was a ninjutsu and tried to jump infront of sasuke. The raikage has no one to protect, therefore all he needs to do is run away.
People take kabuto's cave advantage lightly. Kabuto only did so well because of that cave and kishi gave it to him to put more into the fight. Sound gen, white rage, evasion(jumping on roof and hiding behind stalagmites) are all greatly reduced outside. The little he gained in manda 2, he lost elsewhere. I don't see how kabuto is ever winning this battle.
