Kakashi and Hiruzen are comparable

Are they comparable??

  • Yes, they are

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  • No, they aren't

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I think personally that Kakashi and Hiruzen have similarly the same style from what we know from each other. I will try to put my analysis about it by comparing each other(notice that i'm trying to compare with prime Hiruzen from what we've seen from old Hiruzen)

Ninjutsu: So far we know, Hiruzen has 2affinities(katon and doton jutsus) when Kakashi has shown 3affinities: Suiton, doton, raiton, and even katon if we believe in the anime. So when Hiruzen uses katon like this for example
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, -you can notice Nidaime countered it with a suiton suijinheki, a jutsu Kakashi can use also-, Kakashi can counter it like this:
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What is also funny is that the doton jutsu(doton doryuuheki) Hiruzen created here against Nidaime to counter his suiton,
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can also be used by Kakashi:
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And apart from that he has also has raiton jutsu(his main affinity) and a lot of other jutsus with raiton, doton, suiton element

The two of them could use Kage bunshin but now it depends on stamina they each have to maintain the jutsu:
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The two of them are really skillfull in ninjutsu even praised to be able to use thousand jutsus:
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So personally i think Kakashi has the edge in ninjutsu since he has elementar advantage(suiton>katon and doton=doton) and even one more affinity than Hiruzen(Kakashi has raiton also), but i must admit also that Kakashi had more screen time than him, so maybe he had jutsus we have not seen.

And besides from that, Hiruzen has his summoning jutsu which is really useful for him in his fights especially thanks to his defense harder than diamond. He can also use it to fight in close combat and have a certain advantage

That justify also why both of them have 5/5 in ninjutsu in the databook

Taijutsu: I think both of them have shown to be really skillfull in this department. Kakashi especially has shown too much all along this manga that could help us to know he is a really skillfull taijutsu fighter. The fact he has a partner like Gai(one of the strongest taijutsu fighter in NU) probably helped him to improve his skill during his life. Proof is that he can even open gates himself and even currently he has shown being able to fight on par with him(6gates) against Tailed beast.

On the other side, Hiruzen has shown to be really skillfull while fighting Kages avoiding Mokuton, placing explosiv tags on them without they even notice.
Anyway you can see it yourself in the manga. The both of them are good in taijutsu

If we refer in the databook, Hiruzen has slightly the edge though, since he has 5/5 in taijutsu when Kakashi "only" has 4.5/5 in taijutsu

Genjutsu:
If we refer in databook, Hiruzen has the edge since he has 5/5 in genjutsu when Kakashi has 4 there, but in the manga he hasn't shown genjutsu skills and was in the contrary caught in Hashirama's genjutsu. And even if he is stronger in genjutsu like databook says, i think the fact Kakashi has the sharingan give him advantage since it helps him to see quicker through genjutsus and possibly counter them. He has also shown being able to cast strong sharingan genjutsus against Zabuza or against Anbus.

Sharingan has shown to be really usefull. For example, Sasuke also has "only" 4/5 in genjutsu when Orochimaru has 5/5 there, but he was still defeated by the sharingan power

So i personally from what we've seen, i would have given Kakashi the edge here, but we never know

Stamina: If we refer to the last databook, old Hiruzen and Kakashi had the same amount of chakra(3/5 for each other), but from what we've seen in the manga, i personally think Kakashi has the edge here since he has shown to be able to use much more jutsus than Hiruzen.

His stamina has increased since part1 cuz he trained hard with it like databook says so that he could use more jutsus with less chakra. Hiruzen for example feared to use kage bunshins for example when it's a jutsu Kakashi uses very often. But i think also that with age, Hiruzen's stamina decreased like this Anbu said here:
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So i believe prime Hiruzen had more chakra. So in stamina i think Hiruzen had more chakra than Kakashi

Intelligence: I think here we all know how much smart Kakashi is. He shows his skills in almost every battle where he is fighting. He was even known as the number one tactician in Konoha and notice that was even when Hiruzen was alive.

Speed: Kakashi has been praised all along in this manga cuz of his impressiv speed even by Tobi:
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Hiruzen old didn't seemed to be that fast, and even databook says he only had 3/5 in speed when Kakashi has 4.5/5 there. Even if we consider speed decreased with age i think there will still be a gap, so i'll give the edge to Kakashi here

So if we compare their skill, i believe they are similar. What do you think? :noc:
 
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I think you like starting flame threads.
 

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you cant compare characters who have appeared only in the first part with those who appeared in both.
 

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Well you did a lot of work there, but Kakashi couldn't handle the 1st and 2nd hokage at the same time. Also, you can only compare Hiruzen's old age to current Kakashi which is sad.
 

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I read it all, and on paper what you pointed out sounds very comparable. and I somewhat agree because after all both of them have been offered hokage position before.

but that's because I'm unbiased lol I think Hiruzen fanboys are coming as I type.. so you better get your own water release: water wall ready yourself.. lol
 

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Sure, current Kakashi= or >Old Hiruzen imo.
And they are similar arsenal-wise, besides the MS
 

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Too long didn't read.
Here's how you can compare them
1. They both know a shit ton of jutsu
2. They're both super pervs
Case closed
 

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Kakashi and Hiruzen are similar, yes, but only people who don't pay attention to the series wouldn't know that.
 

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What's Kakashi without Obito's Sharingan?

Most of what he know about Hiruzen is Hype and from his Fight between Orochimaru,Hashirama and Tobirama.

We've seen Kakashi's skills throughout the entire series...

Now,IMO, I don't think these two are comparable...Because of lack of information.
 

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What's Kakashi without Obito's Sharingan?

Most of what he know about Hiruzen is Hype and from his Fight between Orochimaru,Hashirama and Tobirama.

We've seen Kakashi's skills throughout the entire series...

Now,IMO, I don't think these two are comparable...Because of lack of information.

Well he was a jounin at a very young age, without the sharingan he would still be a very skilled shinobi. His lightning abilities would most likely be very developed since he wouldn't be spending his time trying to master the sharingan. He would be like itachi without the sharingan, but with more stamina.
 

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What's Kakashi without Obito's Sharingan?

Most of what he know about Hiruzen is Hype and from his Fight between Orochimaru,Hashirama and Tobirama.

We've seen Kakashi's skills throughout the entire series...

Now,IMO, I don't think these two are comparable...Because of lack of information.
Why do you remove him Sharingan? We don't know. Maybe he would have been a completly different ninja creating his own original jutsus. After all what did he do before having sharingan? Didn't he created chidori on his own?

And for Hiruzen i've already acknowledge Kakashi has more screen time(if you had read you'd have seen it), but i'm only judging from what we've seen and he was fighting kages, so he must have do the best he could. So at that time we have seen him at his best(when he was old though) and i think it's comparable to what Kakashi can do.
 

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Imo Kakashi is better. Yeah yeah Hiruzen god of shinobi blah blah blah knows all of konohas justus, beat two ZOMBIE hokages when they weren't in control of their own skills/judgements, w/e. kakashi has an arsenal at least equal if not greater than the 3rd and he has the age to back it up. Ppl who say prime, have you seen prime Hiruzen? No. The weaknesses stack up more towards the 3rd then kakashi.
 

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I think personally that Kakashi and Hiruzen have similarly the same style from what we know from each other. I will try to put my analysis about it by comparing each other(notice that i'm trying to compare with prime Hiruzen from what we've seen from old Hiruzen)

Ninjutsu: So far we know, Hiruzen has 2affinities(katon and doton jutsus) when Kakashi has shown 3affinities: Suiton, doton, raiton, and even katon if we believe in the anime. So when Hiruzen uses katon like this for example
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, -you can notice Nidaime countered it with a suiton suijinheki, a jutsu Kakashi can use also-, Kakashi can counter it like this:
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What is also funny is that the doton jutsu(doton doryuuheki) Hiruzen created here against Nidaime to counter his suiton,
You must be registered for see images
can also be used by Kakashi:
You must be registered for see images

And apart from that he has also has raiton jutsu(his main affinity) and a lot of other jutsus with raiton, doton, suiton element

The two of them could use Kage bunshin but now it depends on stamina they each have to maintain the jutsu:
You must be registered for see images
You must be registered for see images

The two of them are really skillfull in ninjutsu even praised to be able to use thousand jutsus:
You must be registered for see images

So personally i think Kakashi has the edge in ninjutsu since he has elementar advantage(suiton>katon and doton=doton) and even one more affinity than Hiruzen(Kakashi has raiton also), but i must admit also that Kakashi had more screen time than him, so maybe he had jutsus we have not seen.

And besides from that, Hiruzen has his summoning jutsu which is really useful for him in his fights especially thanks to his defense harder than diamond. He can also use it to fight in close combat and have a certain advantage

That justify also why both of them have 5/5 in ninjutsu in the databook

Taijutsu: I think both of them have shown to be really skillfull in this department. Kakashi especially has shown too much all along this manga that could help us to know he is a really skillfull taijutsu fighter. The fact he has a partner like Gai(one of the strongest taijutsu fighter in NU) probably helped him to improve his skill during his life. Proof is that he can even open gates himself and even currently he has shown being able to fight on par with him(6gates) against Tailed beast.

On the other side, Hiruzen has shown to be really skillfull while fighting Kages avoiding Mokuton, placing explosiv tags on them without they even notice.
Anyway you can see it yourself in the manga. The both of them are good in taijutsu

If we refer in the databook, Hiruzen has slightly the edge though, since he has 5/5 in taijutsu when Kakashi "only" has 4.5/5 in taijutsu

Genjutsu:
If we refer in databook, Hiruzen has the edge since he has 5/5 in genjutsu when Kakashi has 4 there, but in the manga he hasn't shown genjutsu skills and was in the contrary caught in Hashirama's genjutsu. And even if he is stronger in genjutsu like databook says, i think the fact Kakashi has the sharingan give him advantage since it helps him to see quicker through genjutsus and possibly counter them. He has also shown being able to cast strong sharingan genjutsus against Zabuza or against Anbus.

Sharingan has shown to be really usefull. For example, Sasuke also has "only" 4/5 in genjutsu when Orochimaru has 5/5 there, but he was still defeated by the sharingan power

So i personally from what we've seen, i would have given Kakashi the edge here, but we never know

Stamina: If we refer to the last databook, old Hiruzen and Kakashi had the same amount of chakra(3/5 for each other), but from what we've seen in the manga, i personally think Kakashi has the edge here since he has shown to be able to use much more jutsus than Hiruzen.

His stamina has increased since part1 cuz he trained hard with it like databook says so that he could use more jutsus with less chakra. Hiruzen for example feared to use kage bunshins for example when it's a jutsu Kakashi uses very often. But i think also that with age, Hiruzen's stamina decreased like this Anbu said here:
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So i believe prime Hiruzen had more chakra. So in stamina i think Hiruzen had more chakra than Kakashi

Intelligence: I think here we all know how much smart Kakashi is. He shows his skills in almost every battle where he is fighting. He was even known as the number one tactician in Konoha and notice that was even when Hiruzen was alive.

So if we compare their skill, i believe they are similar. What do you think? :noc:

Honestly, I'm not gonna knock it. I agree with you with 90% of this thread but many Hiruzen fanboys most likely will go berserk on you lol. Now they are comparable like you say but to some extent. War Arc Kakashi and Part I Sarutobi you really can't compare the two like that b/c as we all have seen Kakashi has grown alot since then. Part I he had three elements at his disposal, sharingan, and exceptional combat sense but had little chakra reserves for his lighting release raikiri. Sarutobi on the other hand had two elements, his monkey king summoning Enma, and also like Kakashi exceptional battle sense as well but little reserves. You could only compare these two like this.
1) You go by the databooks information.
2) You compare them only by what we have seen from them both of them in Part I. Part II wouldn't count since we've haven't seen a Part II Hiruzen.
To compare the two otherwise would be like comparing Edo Madara and Hirashima. We only seen Part I Hirashima(which I kinda expected more from) and War Arc or Part II Edo Madara who has wood release like the 1st, a much stronger Madara since their battle. Basicly Part II characters are alot stronger than Part I characters. Kakashi got stronger over the years while Sarutobi remained the same. Lol Besides the 3rd was way past his prime was there even room for him to get any stronger? Oh and +rep btw. I like the info you provided. :kakashi:
 

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From what i have seen,
Hiruzen>Kakashi
When added hype, its
Hiruzen>>kaka U_U
 

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Honestly, I'm not gonna knock it. I agree with you with 90% of this thread but many Hiruzen fanboys most likely will go berserk on you lol. Now they are comparable like you say but to some extent. War Arc Kakashi and Part I Sarutobi you really can't compare the two like that b/c as we all have seen Kakashi has grown alot since then. Part I he had three elements at his disposal, sharingan, and exceptional combat sense but had little chakra reserves for his lighting release raikiri. Sarutobi on the other hand had two elements, his monkey king summoning Enma, and also like Kakashi exceptional battle sense as well but little reserves. You could only compare these two like this.
1) You go by the databooks information.
2) You compare them only by what we have seen from them both of them in Part I. Part II wouldn't count since we've haven't seen a Part II Hiruzen.
To compare the two otherwise would be like comparing Edo Madara and Hirashima. We only seen Part I Hirashima(which I kinda expected more from) and War Arc or Part II Edo Madara who has wood release like the 1st, a much stronger Madara since their battle. Basicly Part II characters are alot stronger than Part I characters. Kakashi got stronger over the years while Saruobi remained the same. Lol Besides the 3rd was way past his prime was there even room for him to get any stronger? Oh and +rep btw. I like the info you provided. :kakashi:

Why couldn't this be in every Hiruzen thread. I agree with everything you said except the Databooks. IMO you can't judge a chacracter attributes based on #'s. Just skills/knowledge.

And Kishi could have done a better job with Hiruzen chacracter development (Flashbacks). So this whole Hiruzen being the strongest is mostly kishi's fought because once people read and seen that chapter "Hiruzen, god of shinobi". People went ape ****.

*Sidenote
And technically you can say Kakashi has the chakra of a mini tail beast because he can turn it off/on which is a strength/weakness.
 

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Hiruzen rapes Kakashi no matter how comparable
Hiruzen has over 1000 ninjutsus and genjutsus

Hiruzens taijutsu is clearly better, he was able to out manuver Hashirama, Tobirama and Orochimaru with his taijutsu

I hope your not implying kakashi can beat the strongest shinobi on the show
And i can say Hiruzen is smarter plus more experience

Experience happen to be the reason why Kakazu was beating Kakashi
 

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Why couldn't this be in every Hiruzen thread. I agree with everything you said except the Databooks. IMO you can't judge a chacracter attributes based on #'s. Just skills/knowledge.

And Kishi could have done a better job with Hiruzen chacracter development (Flashbacks). So this whole Hiruzen being the strongest is mostly kishi's fought because once people read and seen that chapter "Hiruzen, god of shinobi". People went ape ****.

*Sidenote
And technically you can say Kakashi has the chakra of a mini tail beast because he can turn it off/on which is a strength/weakness.

Yeah man they went crazy with that lol. I'd go by the databooks mainly b/c they're the closest I can get to an exact answer on how strong a shinobi really is besides watching all their fights, observing their battle tatics closely, and then formulating my own response oppinion. Even then I could still be wrong. And it's somewhat faster that way lol. Now your last sentence my friend, could you please elaborate what you mean by mini tailed beast. He's my favorate character and his chakra has grown considerably since part I but I don't see with that much chakra now.
 

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Hiruzen rapes Kakashi no matter how comparable
Hiruzen has over 1000 ninjutsus and genjutsus

Hiruzens taijutsu is clearly better, he was able to out manuver Hashirama, Tobirama and Orochimaru with his taijutsu

I hope your not implying kakashi can beat the strongest shinobi on the show
And i can say Hiruzen is smarter plus more experience

Experience happen to be the reason why Kakazu was beating Kakashi

I agree
 

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3rd taught jaraiya, jaraiya taught the 4th, the 4th taught kakashi, they are all bound to be simular in certain ways, the fundementals were learned the same way.
 
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