No, really, now that I think of it, his loss against the old man 500 chapters back was a fraud and the culprit was plot
Surely the weakened Hokage would target the clones instead of toying with an old man, right? No, they leave the clones alone smh. Oh, instead of using ninjutsu against the blinded Hiruzen, which would have been very effective as he isn't a sensor and can only sniff like a monkey (manga facts), they attack him with taijutsu smh:
Surely one of them would knock him down, but no, let's just see what he's doing:
Did the clones of a practically out-of-chakra man of average speed just catch the former Hokage? The same ones that easily matched him in taijutsu when he was full of chakra?:
So now all of a sudden the old man who was injured by the shinigami and was already just about out of chakra can catch Orochimaru? Come on, Asuma's faster than the old man. Yamato's faster than him. And you got caught by him when he was injured and out of chakra?:
Not to mention the old man already admitted inferiority to you before he even knew you had the Nidaime's jutsu in your arsenal. Surely you would stomp, but then you decide to play around with him and then plot hit you with the swindle:
swindle solos
Surely the weakened Hokage would target the clones instead of toying with an old man, right? No, they leave the clones alone smh. Oh, instead of using ninjutsu against the blinded Hiruzen, which would have been very effective as he isn't a sensor and can only sniff like a monkey (manga facts), they attack him with taijutsu smh:
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Surely one of them would knock him down, but no, let's just see what he's doing:
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Did the clones of a practically out-of-chakra man of average speed just catch the former Hokage? The same ones that easily matched him in taijutsu when he was full of chakra?:
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So now all of a sudden the old man who was injured by the shinigami and was already just about out of chakra can catch Orochimaru? Come on, Asuma's faster than the old man. Yamato's faster than him. And you got caught by him when he was injured and out of chakra?:
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Not to mention the old man already admitted inferiority to you before he even knew you had the Nidaime's jutsu in your arsenal. Surely you would stomp, but then you decide to play around with him and then plot hit you with the swindle:
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