Back at Kage summit Raikage was not fodder they both would of died if it wasn't for Gaara so yea Sasuke was having a hard time. Able to respond to his attacks on par? His Chidori did nothing which brings in the Liger bomb that I posted. Sasunoo wasn't an attack he used it for defense. He only started using it as an attack when everyone else came and he cut the pillars to dip and get Danzo which doesn't make it a fight anymore.
Maddy is a different case he has way more experience than Sasuke plus he was going vs all of the kages not a 1 v 1
There is a reason he isn't Raikage anymore. Time kills.
I don't think you read my post at all :|, I never once said the Raikage was fodder I said that he was fodder when compared to the likes of rinnegan sasuke and madara, same for konohamaru, he's not fodder but he's fodder when compared to the likes of say juubi Jin Obito. And we don't know what would've happened if Gaara didn't intervene, what you're making is an assumption, it could've gone two ways, raikage breaks susano, loses a leg sasuke dies, Doesn't break susano , loses a leg. Also that was spiked amerasu a.k.a Enron, we don't know if the defenses of Susano and Ameterasu would've been enough, but one things for sure, raikage was dying either way, this is an assumption on my part but given by what we've seen from Ameterasu it's death, at least we didn't see the end result and gaara intervened, sadly if gaara didn't, plot would be on sasuke's side. I
I never said saauke wasn't having a hard time either hence why I didn't say raikage wasn't fodder, however, we don't know how raikage would fair against EMS Sasuke, MS sasuke's susano ribcage could survive a decent amount of attacks from the raikage, not to talk of complete and final susano, and EMS Sasuke having better clarity and eyes than MS sasuke. But even then in a fight Raikage wouldn't be fodder, raikage would get stomped by rinnegan sasuke unless you want to honestly make an argument for this. Madara does have more experience, which is why I obviously listed him as fodderizing raikage, but rinnegan sasuke is above Edo Madara so my point still stands. Heck madara negged the raikage with genjutsu alone, that was 1 v 1 right there and it was so casual
. Raikage isn't fodder but it takes an extremely strong opponent to beat him. Like I said he isn't fodder but compared to opponents like RSM Naruto, rinnegan sasuke, momoshiki, etc, yes, he's fodder in that area.
