because after seeing his full arsenal, I can now assess his abilities
he doesn't have the rinnegan techs, advanced mokuton, or wide variety of jutsu as I originally assumed
He has decent mokuton & human path, as well as a better mastery over the outer path than nagato ever did.
The "variety of jutsu" that you assume he had would make him even stronger than hashi, think about it. The rinnegan allows mastery over the 5 basic nature elements, when have we ever seen a rinnegan user use more than 2 different elemental jutsus?
The rinnegan is OP, if obito was given everything that it offers + kamui then he would literally be the strongest character, bar none.
so what exactly does he have?
Kamui....since day 1
Basic Katon
Basic Mokuton, less impressive than Yamato
Kamui is OP on its own, anything else is icing at this point.
His katon is not basic, being able to manipulate fire with his mangekyou. He can do what sasuke can & his eye isnt even made for that.
Obito can perform kgautsuchi (flame control) with kamui.
As for obito's mokuton, we havent seen the full extent of it to judge, zetsu hasnt ever used any form of mokuton, how did zetsu make obito perform all of those OP mokuton jutsus with no prior experience?
Zetsu isnt a mokuton user, the only plausible explanation is that he unlocked obito's mastery over mokuton, if thats the case then obito should be much stronger at using it than shown, given the multiple years he's had to train the craft.
doesn't have preta, animal, deva path which are the ones that actualyl change the tied of battle.
I'f obito had all of the paths then he would be #1 no contest, how can anybody stop a nagato + obito + 5 nature release user?
Bakufu Ranbu, his most impressive technique.
Kamui is more impressive than his katon
Also are you forgeting about his uchiha kaenjin? the barrier that killer bee couldnt even break through with sheer strength alone?
none of that will defeat Kabuto
Kamui alone defeats kabuto..Katon evaporates him, kaenjin traps him, human path kills him, etc...