Let's look at Asuma's "Fascinating" feats throughout his appearances in the manga
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And then we have Kisame
dodging Bee's raiton pencil when it was literally next to his head
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Which is far faster than the kunai Asuma was FORCED to block against Hidan
Casually blocking B's normal swords
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Tell me what made you stupid enough to even think about Asuma providing a discomfort to Kisame?
inb4 a truckload of bullshit
wow.
What was the point of showing me all the feats from the fight against Bee? Lol maybe those would do you some service, if maybe just maybe, Asuma and Kisame hadn't actually confronted each other in canon?
If you're showing me all these feats to prove to me Asuma kept up with a guy who did all that, then its served its purpose. Cause really that's all those feats offer "Asuma kept up with a man who kept up with Bee"
Secondly Asuma is nothing like Bee, Bee was a clear cut mismatch for Samehada. Proof of this is in the same panels you just posted.
shitted on KB in v1
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Bee even states that no one except raikage could react to his speed in v1 in his fight vs Sasuke
Kisame also being able to react to B's speed in v2, but couldn't surpass B's brute strength in the mode
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"the sword parried" , thats samehada doing its magic on a cloak, it hardly has anything to do with Kisame's own attack speed. This doesn't speak heavily on Kisame's CQC prowess, this is not even something that will be factored in against Asuma. His sword is not gonna turn into a chakra eating monster bigger than Kisame himself. So its pretty irrelevant.
Now moving on to Asuma vs Kisame which is what matters.
Lets analyze the feats shall we?
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is where they are all respectively standing.
-Asuma
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Kisame before he could strike Kurenai, indicating that Kisame's attack speed ain't all that much for Asuma.
-Regarding Asuma's injury he only recieved this due to protecting Kurenai, if anything it showed Asuma's superior speed for intercepting.
-Further proof of Kisame's attack speed not being all that much for Asuma is despite Kisame about to attack with Asuma not paying
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. Asuma casually
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all of Kisame's strikes
-Kisame then resorts to using
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Asuma got outdone by Hidan? That only speaks for Hidan's striking speed being above Kisame.
Now I can already predict what you're gonna say
1.Part 2 > Part 1.
Before you start making excuses like that Forbidden Techinique guy, on Kishi not planning far ahead or Kisame's part 2 portrayal not matching up.
The databook praised Asuma as Konoha's most skilled
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, this includes Kakashi and Gai so its no surprise why he was doing this. And this goes for anyone who says Kisame was fighting Gai so he should have no trouble with Asuma.....not really when Databook backs Asuma's portrayal against Kisame.
As for your second form of logic
2.Hidan outdid Asuma so he should not be in the league of Kisame? Wrong.
Asuma
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in a clash, Hidan
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had a similar clash.
It was only due to his
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and usage of the weapons where he outdid Asuma.
Guess what?
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against Kakashi so his style was handicapped from when he went against Asuma.
And before you go spitting that mask nonsense like that other fool Benjir
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So yes Hidan did pressure Kakashi despite Kakashi having all that time to prepare from that distance.
So we have Hidan
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in CQC with
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We all know Kakashi can tango with pretty much anyone in this series when it comes to pure CQC.
So this crap logic of Hidan with his full arsenal getting a drop of blood from Asuma with no intel, meaning Asuma << Kisame does not work for shit.
Give me a Hidan vs Kisame CQC battle any day with no intel and Hidan would shit on Kisame as well. Gets one drop of blood and its GG. Which
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to do, yet he couldn't against Hidan.
I can't believe we have people here who will ignore canon evidence in their face because they can't swallow the fact that someone like Asuma could even be mentioned in the same breath as Kisame, completely ignoring what this thread is even about.
@NarutoX28
dude are you serious? You're arguing as if this is a full power Kisame vs Asuma? No shit Asuma can't replicate feats Kisame can pull off and no shit Kisame's portrayal is greater as a whole. What are you even arguing?
When it comes to CQC Asuma's portrayal does not put him below Kisame one bit. That's Asuma's area of expertise, you forgot what this thread was about?