All jokes aside, hiruzen was stated to be the strongest of the 5 kages at the time of his death and he was known as the god of the shinobi in his prime which shows that he was the strongest ninja on the planet during his prime. Even in his old age, he was able to hold his own orochimaru and his edo hokages and although the edo kages were no where close to full power, they were still kage level shinobi. So all together, he pretty much makes it close to the top 10.
And just because he lacks feats doesn't mean he's fodder....
Hiruzen has amateresu
Has. Byakugou
Has susanoo
Can do Ino-Shika-Cho formation on his own
Has mokuton
Has ftg
Has suiton
Has fuuton
Has raiton
Has doton
Has enma
Has neutralizer
Has katon
Has RDS
Soloed Hashirama
Soloed Tobirama
Soloed shinju
Nearly soloed juubito
Decapitate oro
Made Oro run
Oro needed help to fight him
Has Totsuka
Well i've been seeing comments like hiruzen weak he's fodder all he does is Shadow shuriken when being reanimanted he has no features he only fought a weak edo version of Tobirama & Hashirama like what manga are you reading? The feature of edo gives you unlimited chakra,stamina,and undieing body on top of that he's fighting 3 vs 1 how in god name is that even a fair fight ?
No features really his best feature was shown while being revived.
A Giant Juubi tail beast bomb Killer bee in his bijuu form shooting countless beast bomb couldn't stop it with the help of a whole army using how many earth style barrier walls.
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Hiruzen side of the Four Red Suns Battle Encampment barrier was still held up now so im guessing that wasn't a feature on that of that Hiruzen was using earth style barriers since part one lmao So please people at this point who would of had a technique to stop a tail beast bomb of that level and not have a scracth on them the 3rd raikage,4th raikage, 5th Hokage, 2nd Mizukage, 4th mizukage, 5th Mizukage, 3rd Kazekage ,4th Kazekage, 5th Kazekage 2nd Tsuchikage, 3rd Tsuchikage , Kakashi,Might Guy,Yamato,Darui,Hanzo ,Mifune ?
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Well here's another comment that he got 1 shotted lol for real ? Who wouldn't get one shotted by Juubito at this point ?
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Juubito would have one shotted KCM naruto if Sasuke hadn't gone saved him? Or how about when Minato had to warp both naruto & Sasuke out of the way , Lets not forget KCM Minato who was rescued by Tobirama?
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Hiruzen was the guy who was able to seal Orochimaru arms away in a fight already taking a edo Tobirama & Hashirama yes they were not a full power but still had unlimited Chakra ,Stamina, and a undieing body. The same Orochimaru who took on a 4 tail Kurma Naruto mode will his body was weaken with no arms. He's shown to have 2 elements at a good scale, 2 S- Rank techinques one a Barrier & another a sealing , Summoning Technique , Great intelligence and knowledge.