Tsunade well worthy of the Hokage title

[Olorin]

Tsunade is one of the strongest characters in Naruto. She also is the medical ninja expert (possibly the best) and that includes chakra control and avoidance (for which you need speed). From this (speed, avoidance and power) we can assume that she has some prowess in taijutsu (because with her strength she only needs to land one hit in most cases, that is where speed helps her).

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Medical-nin (医療忍, iryō-nin) are ninja who specialize in medical treatment and use of medical-oriented jutsu, to heal others. Becoming a medic-nin requires high intelligence and excellent chakra control. A medic-nin is trained to avoid getting injured in any way, for the reason that if they are injured, then there would be nobody to heal the other members of their team. Medic-nin accompany other ninja on high ranking missions to increase the success rate of the mission and overall survival rate of the squad.

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Painful sky leg: This technique is simply a falling axe kick. Tsunade concentrates her incredible strength into her heel and strikes the enemy. The power of this attack is so great that it would cause immediate death to anyone who it hit by the attack directly. It was shown that when she strikes the ground it results in a gigantic crater that can even kill an opponent caught in its immediate strike zone.

Chakra enhanced strength: This is a technique where the user focuses chakra into their hands and feet using precise chakra control and releases it with pinpoint timing, which greatly enhances their strength. Tsunade created the concept of this technique to intimidate enemies and keep them at bay while she healed injured ninja.

The training for this technique is quite arduous, as Tsunade repeatedly came at Sakura with full power to help her learn. Despite this, the outcome of this training is incredible, giving the user enough strength to easily make gigantic craters or kill opponents with single strikes.

She also has enormous chakra reserves: she healed most of konoha and lend Katsuyu her chakra to save everyone, but summoning alone takes quite some chakra.

Elemental Release: she used a technique which is supposidly a lightning release on kabuto, the Important Body Points Disturbance, Being a lightning release user, having great chakra control and enormous chakra reserves she could actually be able to use a technique similar to Raikiri or Chidori, and elements open a wide range of new possibilities.

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By converting her chakra into electricity and striking the enemy, Tsunade is able to disrupt the signals that are sent from the brain to the opponent's nervous system in order to function. For example, if someone tried to move their right arm, a different part of the body would move in the way they wanted their right arm to move. However, the victim can partially overcome the technique if they manage to relearn the connection between their brain and their limbs, as Kabuto Yakushi demonstrates. This feat however is not an easy one and takes a high amount of concentration and intelligence.

However: Despite Tsunade converting chakra into electricity, it is not completely clear whether or not this technique really involves Lightning Release, as it could possibly mean that she simply converts chakra into electrical impulses inside the body.

Fuinjutsu: her Yin Seal release is a powerful S-rank fuinjutsu, which possibly means she has prowess in Fuinjutsu (which wouldn't be uncommon with a Sannin):

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Yin Seal: Release is a powerful sealing technique used by Tsunade. Over a period of time, Tsunade will focus and build up chakra in the seal mark on her forehead. The release command will disperse the seal and allow the stored chakra to pump back into her body. She has used this stored chakra to perform the Creation Rebirth technique on herself and healed a vast amount of people through Katsuyu.

Also she is one of the legendary Sannins of Konoha, She is the granddaughter of Hashirama Senju (this kind of things mean something in the manga), she is the 5th Hokage of Konoha and praised by Jiraiya and Orochimaru

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So in my opinion she can easily compete with other Kages today, and is not far behind (if she is) after the previous Hokage. But some of this are assumptions in which I believe are true.

I made a similar but a lot shorter thread a few days ago I just wanted to do it proper?

Does now anyone dare to disagree with me? XD

 

[Migualon J.J.]

Re: Tsunade well worthy of the Hokage name

that about those other current kages, she might be close to gaara a bit, but to other hokages? i don´t really think so man, sry + i am not saying she is weak, which she isn´t. she is strong, but compared to other current kages or hokages, she is pretty much weak against all of these, her biggest disadvantage is that she must get close to her opponents, which if we see the abilities of other kages: gaara, mei are both long-range, so big disadvantage for tsunade, than there is raikage, his taijutsu is stronger than tsunade´s i believe and he has that cool armor and is fast, than there is tsuchikage onoki, eh, i am not really sure about his type, but cause he can fly than he can dodge all her attacks, than to other hokages, hiruzen was her teacher and is pretty strong, than hashirama beat madara, so i doubt that he was weaker than tsunade, than there is tobirama, not much is known about him really, only that he had some cool sword, master of suiton and last thing he had space-time ninjutsu (not sure if he is weaker than tsunade, but i don´t think so) and minato is stronger than tsunade obviously as he beat tobi

 

[Shoton]

Re: Tsunade well worthy of the Hokage name

that about those other current kages, she might be close to gaara a bit, but to other hokages? i don´t really think so man, sry + i am not saying she is weak, which she isn´t. she is strong, but compared to other current kages or hokages, she is pretty much weak against all of these, her biggest disadvantage is that she must get close to her opponents, which if we see the abilities of other kages: gaara, mei are both long-range, so big disadvantage for tsunade, than there is raikage, his taijutsu is stronger than tsunade´s i believe and he has that cool armor and is fast, than there is tsuchikage onoki, eh, i am not really sure about his type, but cause he can fly than he can dodge all her attacks, than to other hokages, hiruzen was her teacher and is pretty strong, than hashirama beat madara, so i doubt that he was weaker than tsunade, than there is tobirama, not much is known about him really, only that he had some cool sword, master of suiton and last thing he had space-time ninjutsu (not sure if he is weaker than tsunade, but i don´t think so) and minato is stronger than tsunade obviously as he beat tobi

For a direct hit on her target, ofcourse she needs get close. But she has shown herself to attack from distance before. For example, she can crack up the ground ,causing fissures that goes in long range. She basically uses the earth with her strength for long range. Im not saying its probably very efficient, but she CAN attack from long range.

 

[hollwichi]

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i agree tsunade is well suited for a kage position. though i do feel that others would have been better. i wish jiraiya would have taken it. but also kakashi i feel would be a great hokage. no doubt she is a good shinobi, i just feel there is better. because seeing tsunade uses pretty much only taijutsu, and hasnt done anything to fight except for heal people, in such times as the invasion of pein, she should have been fighting as well and not just making naruto do it.

 

[Anub]

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Every hokage has worthy of the title so far.

 

[kanesannin]

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Tsunade is weak stuff....she's the all time weakest kage in my opinion

 

[Migualon J.J.]

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Tsunade is weak stuff....she's the all time weakest kage in my opinion

if you mean from those we have seen fight up until now, than i guess you are right, but we still know nothing about 1st and 3rd mizukages, 1st and 2nd raikages, 1st tsuchikage and 1st, 2nd and 4th kazekages

 

[kanesannin]

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if you mean from those we have seen fight up until now, than i guess you are right, but we still know nothing about 1st and 3rd mizukages, 1st and 2nd raikages, 1st tsuchikage and 1st, 2nd and 4th kazekages

Yeah well like u said we never seen them fight so i go by wat we've seen

 

[Sharingdork]

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If Tsunade was such a great choice for Hokage, why didn't the elders pick her first, instead of Jiraiya turning it down first. She don't have elements (that jutsu on Kabuto doesn't count), needs to get close to be effective, needs Naruto to save her butt in every battle she's in (which is, like, two (FILLERS DON'T COUNT!)), and is sort of a 'default Hokage'. I'm sorry, but the only other Kage less fitting of their status was Danzo.

 

[Migualon J.J.]

Re: Tsunade well worthy of the Hokage name

If Tsunade was such a great choice for Hokage, why didn't the elders pick her first, instead of Jiraiya turning it down first. She don't have elements (that jutsu on Kabuto doesn't count), needs to get close to be effective, needs Naruto to save her butt in every battle she's in (which is, like, two (FILLERS DON'T COUNT!)), and is sort of a 'default Hokage'. I'm sorry, but the only other Kage less fitting of their status was Danzo.

i must disagree with you on that danzo part, at least he does take care of the village at any cost man

 

[~Hebi Terumi~]

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If Tsunade was such a great choice for Hokage, why didn't the elders pick her first, instead of Jiraiya turning it down first. She don't have elements (that jutsu on Kabuto doesn't count), needs to get close to be effective, needs Naruto to save her butt in every battle she's in (which is, like, two (FILLERS DON'T COUNT!)), and is sort of a 'default Hokage'. I'm sorry, but the only other Kage less fitting of their status was Danzo.

Ok well... I'm sure the idea of Tsunade being the Hokage didn't even cross the minds of the elders with Jiraiya standing right in front of them. And so what she doesn't have any elements gai doesn't have any elements and people always praise him for his taijutsu. Naruto may have saved her from two battles but those aren't the only battles she has been in. Plus, she was terrified after seeing blood so she wasn't in any condition to fight at the moment but eventually overcame that. And the thing with Pain well guess what she knew that she couldn't handle pain as he took down Jiraiya someone who was more powerful than her. But, she practically healed all the villagers and protected them from the Shinra Tensei. And when the Asura Path was charging towards her we don't know if she was going to be able to retaliate or not but she had expended large amounts of her chakra already healing the whole village.

 

[Shoton]

When did this start to be a "make your own manga" thread?! Stick to the facts, seriously.

i must disagree with you on that danzo part, at least he does take care of the village at any cost man

atleast he does stake care of the village at any cost? What????! Have you read the manga or even watched the anime?! She did anything in her power to save konohas citizen under Pains attack, you are insanely mistaken if you really think Danzo could have "take care of the village any any cost" better than Tsunade.

 

[Tsunade Senju]

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Tsunade is worthy from the beginning of the title Hokage. She has a good reputation to be acknowledge even with the five kages. She has a royal blood (Senju and Uzumaki) and one of the Sannins.

It's not yet safe to say that Tsunade's weak because she still has the chance to prove herself. How can you conclude that she's weak if we only saw her fight once?

 

[kanesannin]

Re: Tsunade well worthy of the Hokage name

Tsunade is worthy from the beginning of the title Hokage. She has a good reputation to be acknowledge even with the five kages. She has a royal blood (Senju and Uzumaki) and one of the Sannins.

It's not yet safe to say that Tsunade's weak because she still has the chance to prove herself. How can you conclude that she's weak if we only saw her fight once?

Against kabuto she got owned and if she was strong she would have gone out and sought the fight, like the fourth when madara summoned the kyuubi, instead of healing everyone it would have helped if she fought pain so there wud have been less ppl to heal in the first place.

 

[Sharingdork]

Re: Tsunade well worthy of the Hokage name

Tsunade is worthy from the beginning of the title Hokage. She has a good reputation to be acknowledge even with the five kages. She has a royal blood (Senju and Uzumaki) and one of the Sannins.

It's not yet safe to say that Tsunade's weak because she still has the chance to prove herself. How can you conclude that she's weak if we only saw her fight once?

jsut that. if we only saw her fight once, when there were COUNTLESS oppertunities for her to fight, why? why didn't she herself go on dangerous missions (and don't say it's cause she's Hokage; the fourth did, the second did, the first beat the crap out of Madara, and I'm pretty sure the third did)?

 

[niblack89]

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Naruto is the strongest shinobi in he leaf but the title of kage is to early for him. Its to early for Gaara. Kakashi is strong but he isn't powerful for the position. Kakashi is a great 1on1 but for something large scale, Kakashi can't really help out the village.

Lets take the Kyuubi incident. All the other kage's have the power and skill to stop the kyuubi or help out the village. Kakashi wouldn't be so helpful

 

[Tsunade Senju]

Against kabuto she got owned and if she was strong she would have gone out and sought the fight, like the fourth when madara summoned the kyuubi, instead of healing everyone it would have helped if she fought pain so there wud have been less ppl to heal in the first place.

Again. Try reading my posts from other threads. That would be helpful, but for your sake i'll explain.

First, you can't compare a one on one fight to an invasion where a village is your responsibility.

During her Kabuto fight, all the three Sannins were handicapped. Jiraiya (drugged), Orochimaru (Armless) & Tsunade (Rusty & Blood Phobia) Kishi can't just show to us Sage mode and Hydra Justu that time because the Sannin will be overpowered and will lack development later on.

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Still, Kabuto praised her power even at her fallen state.

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Did you see, she was even holding her own in an elite jounin on Kakahi's level despite of being rusty.

Minato and Tsunade's administration were faced into an invasion, but with different invaders. Comparing Minato and Tsunade is not right. If Minato was on Tsunade's position, many people would have died. The attack of the Kyuubi can be anticipated as it doesn't use techniques, only massive chakra blast which minato teleported somewhere else.

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On the other hand, Pain is human/shinobi who possesses the rinnegan. He knows variety of justus which Tsunade/Konoha was in the process of learning. Pain's technique is not a blast rather a gravitational pull. How could have minato teleported such attack?

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And I don't think Minato would have fought Pain head on. There are five shinobis plus Konan roaming around Konoha. Even he's fast he wouldn't be able to defeat one body easily. If he fought one pain, deva could prepare Shinra Tensei on the air.

Also, the third Hokage is there to give assistance. So basically two Kages are fighting that's why Minato wasn't afraid to risk his life because he knew the third was there, as oppose to Tsunade. Danzo didn't even help her, even so Danzo isn't the person to trust most.

As with Tsunade, we don't know how well she could have done in Minato's postion, but with the help of the Third the success rate is huge. We still don't know what she's really capable of. She's a senju & a uzumaki after all which means she can be proficient with seals like Minato.

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jsut that. if we only saw her fight once, when there were COUNTLESS oppertunities for her to fight, why? why didn't she herself go on dangerous missions (and don't say it's cause she's Hokage; the fourth did, the second did, the first beat the crap out of Madara, and I'm pretty sure the third did)?

Countless opportunities?

I haven't seen anyone from the Kages went out for a Mission? aren't they the ones giving orders for mission? If the Hokage went out for missions the village will be vulnerable for attacks. Common Sense.

Beating Madara, Kyuubi or the Kin Gin Bros weren't missions at all. The Kages were forced to fight them. As for Tsunade, Pain was the greatest threat where she had the opportunity to fight, but Pain flew and nuke the village. You can't blame her for that. This is a shonen manga and the bests are saved for last that's why we haven't seen her fight all out and she's the last remaining sannin. I'm sure that's why the naruto and sasuke fight will be the last fight we'll see in this manga.

 

[NewKageism]

well written but you do know if she shows her ablities n still suck theses threads will come back up. but yea well written.

 

[Tsunade Senju]

well written but you do know if she shows her ablities n still suck theses threads will come back up. but yea well written.

Thank You!

Well, it depends on how you define "Her abilities suck". You have to understand she's medical ninja first. If she shows techniques like super duper advance medical jutsu then i won't consider it lame. Remember, Kishi has been consistent in writings. Tsunade's power would be related to slugs like Jiraiys to toads and Orochimaru wth Snakes.

 

[MilleniumStorm4]

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Tsunade is weak stuff....she's the all time weakest kage in my opinion

she may be the weakest but shes one of the most suited...i mean look how many lives she saved during pains invasion....if pain attacked any other village its r.i.p.....to them all shes not a front line fighter which i wouldnt want as my kage anyway...id want em on the line fighting...kakashi isnt kage type he is front line jiraiya was there scout getting all the info for the village...the point is why would u even want ur strongest fighter kage anyway?...id much rather have an more intellegent ninja who can make battle plans and strategies and stuff...if tsunade died id pick shikuaku not naruto or kakashi...just my opinion tho