He's known all over the ninja world and is considered Konoha's master tactician, and jutsu expert. And he can't beat anyone kage level without a team? lol, If anything the teams he's always with hinder him.
Vs Kakuzu/Hidan he had to save Chouji/Ino/Shikamaru from the electrical blast, wasting a lot of his chakra. Vs Sasuke he was going to kill him before Sakura hindered him. Vs Deva Path he had developed the plan to beat him and had it executed perfectly, but plot no jutsu kicked in and somehow that other path managed to move after getting smashed to what should have been little bits by the 2(arguably) strongest characters in the series in Chouji and Chouza. He's now currently a General of the shinobi army and was the biggest factor(along with Gai) in taking out the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist.
If you wanna go back to part 1 -
Vs Zabuza he had to worry about Team 7 and Tazuna. After he no longer had them to worry about he slapped Zabuza around like little bitch. He was ready to take Kabuto on, but he ran from him and vs Itachi he had to save Kurenai's useless ass(although he wasn't going to beat Itachi regardless, having her be so useless didn't help things).
He's more than made a name for himself..
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:scorps: you done ??
In that fight against kakazu and hidan i agree , ino and choji weren't help but apart from that , kisame would beat him , ok and when he saved kurenai that was his only highlight , if kurenai wasnt there the only clip would be kakashi knocked out and kisame carrying him to the base .... diedara didnt bring along enough clay ... even sasuke bearly survived a proper fight with him and sasuke back then is stronger than kakashi now ..... apart from that what has he done except get wacked but tobi - if it was a blade - death in a second
you honestly want more close calls
because from what im getting yall are trying to put kakashi in a position of high levels as jiraya , oro , kisame , itachi , kakazu , raikage , oonoki
ARE YALL MAD ?
i acknowledge his strength as a powerful shinobi but he is not kage in power
probably in jutsu knowledge and tactics yes , power nope not ready yet ... although he is great but not brilliant :scorps: