it wasnt nearly as big and there are big jutsus in part 1. hiruzens jutsus werent one of them. even zabuzas great waterfall was bigger.
sasuke was stated as having killed zabuza, somethign we know to be false. its only konohas opinion that hes strongest hokage and only by the people living in his era (iruka, oro). the people who looked up to minato considered him the strongest and fastest (jiraiya, A, kakashi, naruto himself). surpassing his father has always been narutos goal. no one told him all the hokages sacrificed as much as minato did but he didnt care i guess.
There's no proof whatsoever that refutes the third hokage as the God of Shinobi or the strongest hokage. Your comparing a battle we read first hand to someone elses knowledge vs a character that was hyped up by kishi with no proof of his prime.
since when has someone outside of konoha spoken highly of the third? it never happened.
the best i can do is when madara/tobi didnt attack the village during his reign. the most famous ninja outside of konoha was minato. foriegn ninjas ran from him on sight. raikage considered him the best ever.
The raikage acknowledged him as unsurpassed in terms of speed. Although I do agree he's just as strong as hiruzen. Is the bolded part not proof enough? Also hiruzen led konoha in the second shinobi world war and didn't die, something tobirama and hashirama failed to do in the wars they fought.
all of those were only true 5 years ago. kishi has long since revealed just how strong the other hokages were, and other gokage. no one in part 2 has shown respect or admiration for the third. however they all look up to minato, third raikage, hashirama, third kazekage, and onoki. the kages themselves respect gaara as onoki stated. but not a single man or woman has ever said "gee you know that guy, sandaime hokage? he was so strong! he wiped out my whole army" or "gee you know that jutsu? only the sandaime could be capable of using that!"
How exactly did those make them false? Were there specific statements stating it to be true, or are you basing this off hype?
kishi writes alot of things in his manga. like sauske killing zabuza, kabuto being invincible, itachi being invincible, hashirama being written off as a fairy tale etc.
if you take anything and everythign written in the manga as proof of something then hiruzen admitted his own talent is inferior to orochimaru and orochiamru said his genius is inferior to sasuke's therefore sasuke > hiruzen prime.
This is probably the funniest thing i've read all day. Hiruzen didn't admit he was inferior to orochimaru, some guy posted the manga page above me and he said he probably wouldn't win. Or in other terms he might win he might not. Remember this is hiruzen old and your comparing being a genius to actual battle skills? Sasuke attributed his success to beating orochimaru to his sickly state.
databook says alot of things. most of which have been contradicted by new manga information. if we take everything said in part 1 as fact, then sharingan comes from byakugan (apparently sage of six paths never existed in part 1 logic), kyubi attack was an accident, hiruzens talent < oro's, 4th kazekage is iredeemably evil, gaaras mum hated him, itachi killed the clan cos he wanted to reach his limits etc. if you can accept one retcon, why not another?
Because not a single character has been stated to be the strongest hokage konoha ever had besides hiruzen? Tell me when hashirama and minato were stated to be the strongest hokage and i'll stop.
ok. source? damn you accuse me of having no proof. you say whatever you like and make crap up to your liking
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States he was the God of Shinobi, even orochimaru someone who hated the leaf acknowledged this.
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Here is emna stating he mastered the may of the shinobi.
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Kabuto stating he was the strongest of the 5 kages.
You can check the wikia for more, I can't spend all day posting links gotta go to work in a few. However if it makes a difference, A stated in the 4th shinobi war saying something along the lines, no wonder we haven't been able to beat konoha, you all have great shinobi. Now tsunade praised hiruzen for producing fine and determined shinobi. Mix two and two together there.
no because people didnt have that opinion of him. jiraiya and A respected his abilities because they saw them first hand. hiruzen hasnt done a damn thing to deserve his praise and especially in part 2 where this so called god of shinobi has gone almost completely ignored.
part 2 overrules part 1 as i pointed out. unless you want itachi to stay evil
Your right, he hasn't done anything to deserve praise, but there hasn't been a shinobi who was given the title strongest hokage konoha ever had, or God of shinobi since the sage of six paths or hiruzen.
nowhere in the manga was the mist's opinion of sasuke killing zabuza contradicted so therefore it must be true no matter what actually happened?