Out of Tsunade, Minato and Sarutobi which Hokage struggled the most?

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In regards to keeping the village safe and political matters within the village?
 

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I'd say Minato for the fact that a raging Kyuubi was in the village along with the supposed Madara controlling him.
 

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Tsunade, also this is what happens when you give power to woman .

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They all had their problems and not one was equal to another, but honestly i say hiruzen.
 

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Tsunade, also this is what happens when you give power to woman .

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Do you think Pain was trying to tell us something with the boob shape?

OT:Hiruzen was the worst hokage, Minato's was more of a cameo. Tsunade's time had to deal with all the problems caused by Hiruzen, his council and predecessors.
 
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They all had their problems and not one was equal to another, but honestly i say hiruzen.

I agree but Tsunade had alot of opportunities to fix Hiruzen's mistakes
 

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Tsunade, also this is what happens when you give power to woman .

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Except that would have happened for any Hokage bar Hashirama. Even Tobirama or Minato couldnt have stopped him.
 

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I agree but Tsunade had alot of opportunities to fix Hiruzen's mistakes

I agree but its like you said hiruzens
mistakes.
She was doing what she could w her own problems.
its not like hiruzen was active about fixing tobiramas fk ups know what i mean
 

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Hiruzen’s “struggle” led to death (genocide) of an entire bloodline, but what seals the deal is how he failed to deal with Orochimaru and Danzo; even the elders micromanaged him.
 

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Hiruzen

politically:
Danzo & Root
Orochimaru
Kyuubi Jinchuuriki(looked at negatively still)
3rd great ninja war
Itachi & the Uchiha
Having to come back from retirement
Killing the Uchiha
Looking after new jinchuuriki orphan & uchiha survivor

protection:
Uchiha coup
Kyuubi
3rd ninja war
Orochimaru

probably more but definitely Hiruzen

Minato doesn’t even count
& Tsunade did great, her main struggles were keeping Naruto in check and safe from Akatsuki

Also she didn’t abide by typical hokage expectations(clashed a lot with the elders) aka 1st progressive hokage. Minato would of been 1st but he died.
 

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Tsunade struggled to even the sin Hiruzen piled up. She had to watch out for Danzo and save all the villagers.
 

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Tsunade, also this is what happens when you give power to woman .

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Tsunade is stronger than Hiruzen, Minato, Tobirama. None of them could've handled the situation better than her during Pain's invasion.
 

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Except that would have happened for any Hokage bar Hashirama. Even Tobirama or Minato couldnt have stopped him.

1. If SM Naruto with little help could do it I don't see how Minato or Tobirama couldn't do the same on their own or with little help.Unless you are trying to say early SM Naruto > MInato / TObirama.

2. All those kages confronted threat directly and didn't wait to see how much destruction they can cause

When Madara was about to attack village Hashirama confronted him directly.

Minato Obito / Kurama .

Hiruzen did same with Orochimaru.

Tsunade was waiting doing nothing.
 
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Hiruzen internally, tsunade physically. Minato would take tsunades spot had the whole village been decimated like with pain
 

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Except that would have happened for any Hokage bar Hashirama. Even Tobirama or Minato couldnt have stopped him.

Tobirama and Minato are well equipped to stop that. First off, Tobirama is paranoid so if the akatsuki were actually a thing. Naruto would have never left the village and been trained under him or Hiruzen most likely.

It would have been 100% on guard notice.


Nagato could have invaded with Minato as it was a time of peace but Minato already displayed his ability to remove threats from the village.





Politically, Hiruzen had issues, obviously.

Tsunade when it comes to defending the village. Healing is nice, but it shouldn't have came to that.
 

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Minato. He had to deal with the Kyuubi and Obito, and he carried the burden of ending an entire war by himself.
 

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Yondaime Hokage. Things were also pretty hard for Sarutobi. Tsunade just had to let others do the fighting..

Tsunade is stronger than Hiruzen, Minato, Tobirama. None of them could've handled the situation better than her during Pain's invasion.

What did she do?
 

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I'd say Minato for the fact that a raging Kyuubi was in the village along with the supposed Madara controlling him.

That was a one time thing, and that is not really a fault that reflects on Minato or his skills at keeping the village safe. Just because a terrorist attack happens doesn't mean that it is the government leader's fault. There was absolutely no way that Minato could have predicted that "Madara" (Obito) would suddenly show up while Kushina was giving birth, and unleash Kurama upon the village.

Besides, by your logic, every hokage struggled with keeping the village safe.

Hashirama/Tobirama's reigns saw the first shinobi world war (in which both died).

Hiruzen's reign saw the 2nd and 3rd war, a genocide, Orochimaru's invasion (in which Hiruzen died), the attempted kidnapping of two little girls (Kushina and Hinata) one of which led to the death of the brother of a clan leader (Hizashi), etc...

Minato's reign saw Obito/Kurama's attack.

Tsunade's reign saw Pain's attack and the 4th great shinobi war (which means that it also saw the juubi, Kaguya and infinite tsukuyomi)

Kakashi's reign nearly saw the world get destroyed by the moon due to Toneri's actions.

Naruto's reign saw Momoshiki's invasion and later it saw the as of yet unknown circumstances behind Konoha's destruction and Boruto vs Kawaki


Tsunade, also this is what happens when you give power to woman .

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Sexist, and see above


OT: I'd say Hiruzen. Hiruzen allowed a whole genocide to take place! People like to get on Minato or Tsunade because an attack happened while they were hokage, but neither of those two could have seen said attacks coming or control the fact that they came. Meanwhile, Hiruzen could have prevented the Uchiha massacre. The Uchiha did not have to die. That is why I say that Hiruzen was the worst in that aspect.
 
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