
. Sadly no.
Let me give you the reason why Orochimaru and Jiraiya were considered for Hokage.
1. Orochiamru was Hiruzen's fav student
2. Jiraiya was like Hiruzen
3. Tsuande had left the village
Again, as Jiraiya said, they wouldn't have found a better person to run the village than Tsunade. But it kills me when idiots think being Hokage is only what you do on screen.. no Hokage has bunch of other crap to deal with... Hell there could've been a 4th ninja war , while Naruto and etc were working on the Akatsuki.
Hokage - the role is beyond screen time. And is misunderstood by the fans who only stick to their "onscreen" bs.
@Exaar.. Pain would still **** up the village.
But just know Lee wouldn't be a ninja, and Sasuke wouldn't have been healed.. And same for Kakashi.
In terms of experience maybe but in terms of actual combat ability no.
Pain himself praised Jiraiya to the point of saying if he hadn't of kept his secret that he might not of defeated Jiraiya, that in it's self is a very bold statement of someone on pains level.
I cannot see him saying the same thing about tsunade. Let alone her dealing with 3 paths at once and winning, Nor fighting all 6 paths and managing to kill at least one with only one arm and with no info and being in enemy territory.
@Bold, you are gonna post stuff...about jiraiya.. and defend him.. while disagreeing about him admitting inferiority in combat to tsunadE?
And also, Just so you know Jiraiya fought pain on his home turf.. a place where Pain couldn't do Chibaku tensei/Shinra tensei on a large scale.. ok
And if Pain had done Ultimate SHinra tensei.. Jiraiya has 0 things in his arsenal to stop him from doing so.