Okay, I'm not mad at you for expressing your opinion, okay good job, but Madara is on a way other level than Sasuke. What I want to point out is when you said Kabuto can counter Madara's fire techs, with water techs. That's not necissarily true. It actually depends on who's stronger. If there is a FOREST FIRE, and you have a bucket of water, do you think that bucket will take out ALL of that fire? No, and the reason is because, since there's more fire, there's more heat molecules than there is in a measly bucket of water. Now if there was a TSUNAMI, then the water would extinguish that fire easily. In vise verca, if you set a small piece of paper on fire, do you think that fire will put out water filled in a bucket? Nope, but you have a FLAME THROWER, where fire is continuously blowing.. then you can evaporate the water....
Madara's fire techniques are on a way other level. His one fire technique, require an entire squadron of ninjas to counter with there water techniques. Come on, there's no stopping that.
Him stopping Susano? PERFECT Susanoo? Um, no. His white rupture technique, may be strong, but as Madara's says, only the bijuu have a power comparable to his susanoo. I'm only going with what the manga says, and truefully, have you looked at that thing? the kages are tiny ants compared to that massive thing, there is no way Kabuto is breaking that down. Not even Onooki can take it down, and I KNOW, Onooki is stronger than Kabuto.
Last thing I want to point out, is Kabuto cannot defeat the Rinnegan techniques. I agree he probably may find his way out of Preta path. But how do you know if Madara as STRONG as he is, absorbs his ninjutsu, but turns into a dragon stone and dies??? For all we know, that could only just be with the Toad sage modes. That meterite I really want to talk about. How can you say, Madara can only be in his perfect susanoo, but then say with that white rupture technique, Madara can't maintain it? That goes back to my earlier point, only the bijuu can stand against that perfect susanoo, but that besides the point now.
Basically in all, Kabuto isn't ready for the Rinnegan techniques, HE EVEN says so, when he was face to face with Tobi. He said in his mind, I don't have what it takes to fight against the Rinnegan right now. AND DON'T say, "oh, he wasn't as strong then" or "He was still absorbing orochimaru's chakra from Anko" or some sh!t like that. Kabuto Still had Sage mode even during that time. When he lept away he said, as long as I have edo tensei and that "other jutsu" I'm invincible. And last I checked, Kabuto hasn't been training during the war, so I know he had Sage mode when he was talking to Tobi. Yet he in HIS own words, he can't fight against the Rinnegan yet. HE HASN'T changed drastically since then.
Plus come on now, Shinra Tensei, what is Kabuto going to do against that when he flying away?
