I asked you to explain why the people wouldn't believe in a weaker power. If you can't, then that's ok, because I don't expect you to overcome this conundrum by taking Iruka's words as absolute. Clearly the majority of people were labeling Sarutobi as the strongest Hokage because they were disregarding some of Hashirama's feats (most likely his witness-less feat of fighting EMS Madara [who's name starts wars] and the Tsunami inducing, mountain busting Kyūbi [
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]). Let's delve even further into what's actually going on here. Ōnoki, who is from Hiruzen's era, had no knowledge of Perfect Susano'o (like the other Gokage, even Shodai's own granddaughter) - a Perfect Susano'o which has been heavily implied to have been in use at VOTE [
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]. So, how can these people provide an accurate or valid opinion regarding Hashirama's strength if they have no idea about the immensity of Perfect Susano'o's strength [
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]? This is yet more evidence showing that most people were ignorantly heralding Hiruzen as Konoha's greatest ever. Unless you have responses to these points whilst holding both Iruka and Kabuto's (recent) words as true?
Kabuto can use the Rinnegan as well as a Nagato with 30 years of experience in the locker. Ok.