If hanzo is as weak as they've shown him in the last chapter, then what of the sannin, maybe they're overrated too? Let's face it, hanzo was the one who gave them the title and i have my doubts as to how strong these 3 are/were. Tsunade was pathetic when konoha was attacked, and could any of the sannin stand up to the likes of itachi, pain, minato,kabuto or even sasuke/naruto (at their current levels)? I don't think so.
Sannin overrated?
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It's Hanzou who's overhyped...
The Sannins are much more powerful than Hanzou....
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The Sannins are much more powerful than Hanzou....
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i dont buy that opinion of yours, remember hanzo can teleport and the sannin were still learning back then so they must have surpassed hanzo
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How was Tsunade pathetic when Konoha was attacked she practically healed the whole village at the same time keeping them from dying. You have to remember that she can't just rush into battle like naruto did because she is the hokage now so who is going to look after the village. Plus, who would heal all those people and keep them from dying if she were to go out and fight. And, she was actually going to fight Pain but naruto told her not to get involved and that he would handle it. So, just because she didn't defend the village like Minato or the third hokage doesn't make her pathetic Tsunade simply defended the village in a different way which was still effective
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i agree, cause it was big battle and there is a chance that hanzou wasn´t fighting in it, so sannins got tired and would maybe lose to him at the end of the battle
I don't think they're over-rated at all, Jaraiya killed like four of the pain bodies, and if it wasn't for him they wouldn't have beaten pain, in fact it was his book that moved pain to bring everyone back and give up. Tsunade is sick, she is the only one besides the nine tails cloak that almost killed jaraiya, destroyed half a castle in like one punch, she's just got to get over her hemophobia. Now Orochimaru is so feared, even while existing in Kabuto's body, people fear him. Sasori used kabuto just to get an upperhand on the guy. In fact we've seen him defeated three times in the manga (the third, sasuke, itachi) and he's still kicking and a huge threat. I think Mifune just had the upperhand on Hanzou with his speed and technique, like zetsu said during the battle of sasuke and itachi, A master with a stone can beat a novice with a shuriken. By eliminating his ninjutsu, he put him on his level, where he is the best.
Sannin are under-rated actually. Everyone thinks Tsunade is a weakling, Jirayia still doesn't get the respect he deserves. As for Orochimaru, well he still lives through Kabuto, so I guess he needs to get the respect that he managed to remain such an important factor in the story still.
I disagree with most of you. As for tsunade healing the village, if minato were kage and pain had attacked, they would'nt need any healing because he would'nt let the pains do the damage they did to the village. Also, orochimaru got beaten by itachi with such ease it was laughable, nothing 'legendary' about that. I personally feel jiraiya is the strongest of the 3, but his real legacy was his students, not his own fighting strength.
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I understand where you are coming from but Tsunade isn't really the go-out and fight person right away. What I mean by that is if she has the choice to heal the villagers and save lives or fight pain and die in the process possibly having lives being lost due to her being unable to heal, she is going to go with healing the people of konoha. Plus, Tsunade knew this was not her battle and that naruto was the only person who could beat pain.
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We are all entitled to our opinion and how we picture a scenario or match up. As for mine, this is how I view this with the other Hokages:
Now tell me, if Hiruzen was the Kage and he got stucked in a four violate flames barrier with one body of pain, and the other pains and Konan were doing their thing. Isn't that more pathetic?
Minato, no matter how fast he is, can't stop the Chibaku & Shinra Tensei damage to the village. Damn, there are 7 bodies all in all in different parts of Konoha with share intellect and vision plus the several summons. How the hell could he stop right away Deva if he's in the air without putting him a seal? He could have killed most of the bodies, but many people will Die.
The enemy of Tsunade is Pain, from Akatsuki. She is medical ninja who cures people in Pain. So it is safe to assume that Pain is really a match up for Tsunade that time.
And i think the Sannins are not overrated. How could a trio who could be Kage of a village on their own right be overrated?
Minato was a different kind of fighter. Tsunade = medical ninja, she did what she does best.
Itachi is top5 ninja in the naruto world. Of course he beat Orochimaru with ease.
Jirayia is really strong. Just because you didn't see him win big fights, it doesn't mean he is weak. And his students did surpass him, but only shows how good he is. He trained 3 of the strongest shinobi ever. And even if they all surpassed him, he still is at kage level.
Tsunade-fan.....that's all i can say. Minato would not have let the pains touch the village , believe me, even if he had died himself. So what if one pain flies? Did you see what he did to the tailed beast bomb? Same thing would happen with any shinra tensei used to attack the leaf, or he'd teleport to the god realm and stop him. Also, the ONLY reason the sannin were listed as kages was because the 3rd died and konoha was in an emergency....if they were that good, would'nt the 3rd have asked jiraiya or tsunade to take over instead of minato?
Lol, so naruto being strong shows how good iruka is?:flaw:
Btw, im guessing sasuke is in the other 5, cuz he beat oro as well, so did his former sensei the 3rd(pretty much) at the ripe young age of 70
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they're more underrated than overrated. let's face it. jiraiya is one of the greatest ninja from konoha. and about tsunade, she's not a frontline fighter type like jiraiya and naruto (that may change of course). ever since i saw tsunade lose to kabuto in a retarded way, i seriously doubted tsunade's combat potential. so i didn't expect to see much combat prowess from her in the first place. and combat is not one of her strong points at all anyways.
i think it depends on who u use as a parameter. i dont think that the sannin are top 5 currently, and with the dead i wouldnt even refer them as top 10. i too think that they are overrated to some extend, but we saw only Jiraya and Oro in an all-out-fight yet. tsunade was just healing (pretty impressive though) so far. However, Jiraya was more useful through his knowledge than through his fighting and Oro didnt look too great against the third and his edo tensei truly is his greatest technique.
Of course they are above the normal nins and probably could fight the weaker half of the kages, but the other half would probably smash them.
Of course they are above the normal nins and probably could fight the weaker half of the kages, but the other half would probably smash them.
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well I disagree with you. first off I think the sannins, Hanzo at not least Mifune being vastly underrated. Mifune is a kage in all his respect. they have a different system, but its symbolically the same. Hanzo restricted to not using jutsus is a big deal since he was a great master of jutsus.
Jiraya is one of the strongest and Pain said himself that if Jiraya knew his secret he would probably lose.
Tsunade is as said a master of healing. is there more to say? If she manages to land a punch it would in most cases mean instant death. Orochimaru feared her power. Her losing to Kabuto is indeed silly, but the again Kabuto is a freak lol. I think Itachi is a match for most people anyway so to say that
Orochimaru is bad cause he lost to Itachis Mangekyo which only 5 people in the ninja world have mastered.
I dont think Minato can seal away the gravity powers of the deva-path shinra tensei. Naruto was the best option to kill pain with the dead included.
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Minato is the fastest, but the Pain's have a bad habbit of watching each other making it close to impossible to kill if they are not one on one. against Naruto he fought without trying to evade him so much cause Pain needed Naruto alive.. so in all fairness I think that the sannins are being unjust fully underrated.
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The Sannin are not overrated at all they deserve all the hype they get in the ninja world.
Just because Hanzo was defeated so easily by Mifune does not reflect on the Sannin.At the time they fought Hanzo the had no summonings and he did which is a big disadvantage for them.Jiraiya didnt have Sage Mode tsunade didnt have Mitotic regeneration and Orochimaru didnt have his white snake maode.
So saying all that Hanzo was just battling a bunch of sapplings back then if he were to battle all three now he would get trashed because now they are full grown Oak trees.
Just because Hanzo was defeated so easily by Mifune does not reflect on the Sannin.At the time they fought Hanzo the had no summonings and he did which is a big disadvantage for them.Jiraiya didnt have Sage Mode tsunade didnt have Mitotic regeneration and Orochimaru didnt have his white snake maode.
So saying all that Hanzo was just battling a bunch of sapplings back then if he were to battle all three now he would get trashed because now they are full grown Oak trees.