Hiruzen was one nasty dude.. he is the only person who mastered almost all Konoha's jutsus both straight and forbidden. We saw his awesomeness during the Hokage battle..Stated, stated.. I would want to see true reasons
He knows the counters to all Konoha's techniques, know's the jutsu he has the elements for, and if in his prime, could most likely open the 8 gates. But, A does win over Old Sarutobi.Sarutobi wasn't fast as Raikage in my opinion.. Though he has speed as Raikage, A has Raiton no Yoroi. He said that Chidori was the first jutsu what perforated his armour. Saruitobi has elemental techniques and I'm not thinking he can perforat his armour.
Next question is whether Sarutobi has 5 element, if he allegedly can do all techniques of Konoha
I agree , btw his name was HidanBy what we have seen and read, Sarutobi. First, it is stated that Sarutobi was the only other person to be called the "God of shinobi" and someone so well versed in controlling his chakra and knowing every arts, dark or not, that he was also called the "Professor".
Second, we have seen a glimpse of what he could do even in his old age. Orochimaru summoned the first and the second, two legendary kages, and implanted talismans into them to restore them to their former selves in terms of power and abilities. Furthermore, only Madara was able to stand a chance against the first, although he stil lost. Well, Hiruzen was able to fight them off while being distracted by orochimaru. And this was while doing kage bunshin, which is know to distribute chakra evenly among all copies. So each was a weaker clone at the time fighting the former kages and orochimaru. Right now, the 5 present kages together, including a, is having a hard time with Madara. One of them also says in the newest chapter the 5 vs Madara is fair because, well, he is Madara. This all goes to show that Hiruzen may have been able to go toe to toe with Madara. (if a and b is true, then c is true logic).
So, with a young Hiruzen would have won against a, probably more so by logic...kinda like shikamrau did against the akatsuki member (I fail to remember his name, sorry).
i agree that A<Hiruzen i would've loved to see a V.S between those too it sucks he died so quickly as you saidall of those who said A> Hiruzen... seriously what do you know?...
even though it was a while back when we saw Hiruzen fought oro and died, hes still remarkable... all though he wasen't ''the god of the shinobis'' he was en titled with it... and he was stated by kabuto that he was a strongest current kage of hes era and iruka (i dont consider it true but kishi stated that iruka said it so...) said that Hiruzen was the strongest hokage.
even though hes old and lack of stamina, he still knows ALOT of ninjutsu... he also was said to know all of the jutsus that exists in konoha...
he has enma summon, lot of fire/earth ninjutsu and other ninjutsu that we haven't seen.
A in the other hand, yes hes fast and super strong... but cmon, he got almost beaten by a MS Sasuke... if Gaara didn't protect Sasuke with sand, sasuke would have got crushed and A would have burnt to death. I dont see how A is beating Hiruzen with Raiton Tajutsu and super speed.
its so sad that kishi killed off hiruzen so early, would have been nice to see him atleast as a edo summoning but to bad none of the hokages can be revived.
all of those who said A> Hiruzen... seriously what do you know?...
even though it was a while back when we saw Hiruzen fought oro and died, hes still remarkable... all though he wasen't ''the god of the shinobis'' he was en titled with it... and he was stated by kabuto that he was a strongest current kage of hes era and iruka (i dont consider it true but kishi stated that iruka said it so...) said that Hiruzen was the strongest hokage.
even though hes old and lack of stamina, he still knows ALOT of ninjutsu... he also was said to know all of the jutsus that exists in konoha...
he has enma summon, lot of fire/earth ninjutsu and other ninjutsu that we haven't seen.
A in the other hand, yes hes fast and super strong... but cmon, he got almost beaten by a MS Sasuke... if Gaara didn't protect Sasuke with sand, sasuke would have got crushed and A would have burnt to death. I dont see how A is beating Hiruzen with Raiton Tajutsu and super speed.
its so sad that kishi killed off hiruzen so early, would have been nice to see him atleast as a edo summoning but to bad none of the hokages can be revived.