Gaara is the strongest of the current Kage

[Unorthodox]

agreed

 

[Meowazziel]

I disagree. The strongest is Onoki, the 2nd is Tsunade.

You mean in general, or in a 5 kage, 1 on 1 tournament? I dont see how Tsunade can take flying shinobi like Onoki AND Gaara.
You need longrange jutsus in the form of ninjutsus, genjutsus or taijutsus (Like Gai's Hirudora) or other form to reach that person, who is attacking from the sky. Tsunade doesnt have such an ability. She doesnt have much weaknesses, but only being able to fight close range is a weakness though.

 

[shelke]

I agree. Gaara in my opinion can easily take Onoki out. Onoki maybe more powerful but he is a slow fighter. His Jinton has prep time, whilst Onoki prepares Jinton, Gaara can use hail to disrupt it and finish him off with imperial Funeral. Tsunade and Mei can get easily taken out with water fall funeral and even with coffin. The latter is more true for Mei who seems quite sluggish.

A maybe fast, but he doesn't seem to have any particular skills to penetrate a vast volume of Gaara's sands. Gaara can take to the air as well, and finish A from above with the aforementioned techniques. In all honesty, I believe A is the weakest because of his lack of long-range techniques. He relies on his speed, and strength which doesn't hold a candle to Tsunade's, in fact, it's no where near hers. So yes, I do agree with the thread title that Gaara is a well-rounded Kage compared to others.

 

[Shikamaru101]

He would lose against Tsunade and Onoki for definite. And most likely he would lose against A.

Against Onoki - He does not stand a chance, i am afraid. Particle Style totally obliterates any sand techniques Gaara has and Onoki can fly as well as Gaara. Also, Onoki has Earth Style as well as Particle Style so can use Rock Golems etc. So he has more stuff as well as Particle Style. Also, if Onoki does come into contact with Gaara's sand, he can lighten it so it would bemore difficult for Gaara to control it.Gaara only has sand techniques which can be blocked via earth jutsu or particle style to reduce it to molecular size.

Against Tsunade - Yes Gaara can fly, but Tsunade could summon Katsuyu who could shoot acid. Gaara is known to be a stationary fighter so moving around dodging acid would reduce his attacks effectiveness. Tsunade could also jump towards him, and she is not slow as shown when she engaged Pain when she was before on the roof. Tsunade could survive through all of his attacks through Creation Rebirth and if she got close enough, derange his chakra pathways and then he would die.

Against A - A is one of the fastest ninja alive, so he could get to Gaara before him. I am not completely sure who would win as it is difficult so i would say 5 times out of 10, A would win.

 

[Jiraiya Namikaze]

I refuse to agree

 

[Meowazziel]

I refuse to agree

You dont have to .

Gaara vs Onoki.
Gaara vs Tsunade.
Gaara vs Mei.
Gaara vs Raikage.

Which matches could he win you think?

 

[Slug Princess Tsunade]

Gaara vs Onoki. Onoki's experience wins, hands down.
Gaara vs Tsunade. This is debatable, but I go with Gaara, because of his overwhelming attacks
Gaara vs Mei. Obviously Gaara wins this
Gaara vs Raikage. This is a tricky one, but I go with A. He is faster then Gaara's sand.

So no, Gaara isn't the strongest Kage.

 

[Rainbow Dash]

A and Oonoki will trash Gaara.

As for Mei and Tsunade, they will get their tits handed to them.

 

[SasukeNamikaze]

Gaara vs A is completely dependant on the distance at which the battle starts and how Gaara fights. If they start close then A can blitz him in V2. If Gaara stays on the ground he gets blitzed. But if they start at a far enough distance where Gaara wont get blitzed, then Gaara takes to the Skies and A is helpless.

 

[Meowazziel]

Gaara vs A is completely dependant on the distance at which the battle starts and how Gaara fights. If they start close then A can blitz him in V2. If Gaara stays on the ground he gets blitzed. But if they start at a far enough distance where Gaara wont get blitzed, then Gaara takes to the Skies and A is helpless.

Indeed, but some people tend to forget that Gaara can fly. Gaara could survive Lee 5Gates in the chunin exams though (he got punched like 20-30 times or so). He might survive some beating from A. His sand had the speed to block and absorb A's guilotine kick on Sasuke after all.

 

[ItachiStyle]

A needs to power up to reach full speed, which takes a moment. That moment will be all Gaara needs to begin flying backwards, attacking with sand walls that screen him from A, creating sand clones to fake A out, etc. Gaara's sand also has feats of being able to catch Raikage who are not at full speed yet, so it's certain Gaara will be able to get distance and begin to wear A out... I mean, maybe if A starts the fight at 5 feet away, ready to strike, then sure... but that's not a balanced fight, is it? As I've posted earlier (with in depth reasons), this is Onoki easily, with Gaara a moderately close second, and everyone else a long distance below them.

 

[Zenic]

Gaara>A
Gaara>Tsunade.
Gaara>Mei.
Gaara>Onoki.

The last one might be difficult, but not impossible.

Gaara can fly on his sand and has longrange attacks. A and Tsunade lack long range attacks and cant fly.
Gaara's sand was shown to block a lightning guilotine kick from A (Sasuke vs A battle), so his sand is not THAT weak vs lightning. Gaara has large chakra reserves. He should be able to take both down 1 on 1.

Mei Cant fly either, but she has mid/long range attacks. Gaara his ability to fly makes sure he can stay out of boil release mist and he can dodge and block the lava release. The Mizukage Terumi Mei lacks good defences. This one goes to Gaara as well.

Onoki has good long range attacks and good defences. Even if he couldnt fly, he would have some good tools to battle Gaara. But Onoki can fly, in addition to the arsenal he has. However, with all the sand attacking you, it cant be easy to fire dust release attacks. Dust release takes a huge chunk of chakra. Onoki has to win fast, because a battle that is drawn out will be in Gaara's favor. Its not impossible to fight a dust release user(even though the manga said Muu needed to be stopped by Onoki, another dustrelease user). If it was impossible, than Madara would have been owned by Onoki AND Muu, but he wasnt owned. On the contrary, he owned them, two dust release users.
Taijutsu wise, Onoki cant hurt Gaara, cause even a Gates Lee couldnt get through his sand armor.
The only way for Onoki to win, is by hitting Gaara with a dust release.

So the youngest Kage, is the strongest one, if they would go 1 on 1.
Just as the second Mizukage said, he is the Golden egg, among the current Kage .

Do you agree?
Why?
or
Why not?

P.S
Ignore the Gaara ava/profile , it just happened to be made around the same time as this thread. No fanboying Gaara here (no unrealistic fanboying, like spouting nonsense at least).

I totally agree but against A it all depends on the scenario and location.