but minato was not stated to be the strongest kage of his time like hiruzen was, so your speculating how good he was , when all we've seen was a incomplete a level rasengan, ftg,and some seals ,
people just like assuming minato was the strongest kage ever because we only ever see him in his "prime" before he died and the only one who ever made him sweat is tobi and even then he beats him and saves the village from the 9 tails, we have yet and probably never will see sarutobi at his prime 
kages in hiruzen's time i think were, a , garras father,yagura as the mizukage(being controlled by tobi), oonoki would have been the tsuchikage but younger
if you mean 20ish years ago before minato was hokage then it would have been 3rd raikage, 3rd or 4th kazekage, yagura, middle age oonoki.
the first hokage was the greatest kage period. he kept up with madara(the one everybody is riding like that girl do^_^) and he has a kkg of earth and water which is wood and he also has fire.
and he was also able to control the bijuuu who else could do that?
we have not seen their final fight but they were rivals, madara didn't have rinnegan till right before he died so all the details are cloudy still. and hashirama doesn't have fire -_- so i hope you meant madara.
this thread is supper dupper FAIL!!!! its saddreally! i can tell you didnt read the manga... if you did you would see saru was getting owned the whole fight and stood no chance in hell winning! and oru was playing with him the whole time! they were standing around the most the time watching/letting saru and oru talk and have flash backs.
do you read the manga??? they didnt even show all there moves
hashi'- secret scrrolls he used against madara, didnt destroy that small roof they fought on, (he built the whole leaf village btw)
tobimaru- space time nin, edo tensei, and other feats he could of did.
you are a prime example of some one who uses emotions to base there opinion off of instead of the manga.. sad..
i agree sarutobi is a beast! but only a noob will base there true powers (all 3 hokages) off that pathetic fight! dont be a noob siyo... i know your better then that bruh..
compared to shippuden nothing from the original naruto is powerful, and still want to see the 3rd and 4th compared in their primes not just that fight and all of minato's prime feats (stoping the 9tails and hitting tobi, FTG owning A+B) and besides the fact that the hokages were not even 1% of the hype they got/get the 3rd did still blow them up, find them through infinite darkness and seal both of them and oro's hands. Obviously you can't judge his power when he has what, 25-45% of his chakra (guessing, based on enma and the anbu and oro's comments about his chakra levels and fighting being totally different) and decades out of practice (and 2-3 times older then the 1st,2nd or 4th hokages were when they died)
thats different
name 5 ninja that can def. kill the first hokage?
ive seen the first hokages jutsu. it brings fear. you cant stop him unless your someone close to madaras power. or narutos or sasukes.
plus kisame is slow. he doesnt have speed. he cant mess with a master of taijutsu that doesnt use much chakra
Naruto,Sasuke, Tobi could probably suck him up in his eye or worse now that he has 6 paths, Nagato, Minato (i'd say hiruzen but we don't know his prime abilities so either way)
Kisame got overpowered not out ran...well actually he got tricked because he thought afternoon tiger was made of chakra and it wasn't, but his 30% clone got killed by morning peacock as well so really it was a fact of with 6-7 gates open Gai is OP and kisame is screwed since he eats chakra and uses water, both useless vs EIGs.
Nagato was revived, so he was an edo-zombie just like the first hokage.Nagato still toyed with bee and naruto and he actually looked stronger than he was alive.
Kabuto's edos are perfected versions of oro's edos though, and oro's are improved versions of tobirama's. so you can't compare anyone summoned in the war to the 1st and 2nd hokage's edos since they are improved upon by kabuto, he even managed to "improve" madara's prime apperently.
stfu,its Hashirama>Minato>Tobirama>Hiruzen
by fanbase maybe, by hype its
Hiruzen > or equal to Minato>Hashirama>Tobirama
personally i think the 1st 3rd and 4th are about even between feats/hype and tobirama is all hype and his only feat is greatest water user