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madara used the fox to get firepower, so obviously madara knew he needed something huge to deal with hasihrama.
no fox equals hasihrama wining with no problems.
Retarded logic as always.
Just because Madara used it doesn't mean he needed it.
He had obviously been fighting and competing with Hashirama on equal footing over the years as their two clans fought all the time and they fought many times.
So if they were equal before he got EMS then that means that Madara was probably just being an arrogant show-off like he has been the entire time we have seen him.
I urge you to think things through fully before you post them. The 9-tails was a detriment to Madara, there is no getting around that.
By the way did you see Hashirama after that fight? He was barely alive and he had help from the 9-tails on the back end of that fight anyway. So Madara survived fighting Hashirama +the 9-tails.