WTF? Its backwards. Naruto and Sasuke had to save kakashi! Go read the whole arc again. Kakashi had a lot of trouble with zabuza and he was also outsmarted and outspeeded. He could barely react to zabuza only thanks to his sharingan. He got his ass handled by zabuza on their first encounter until Naruto and Sasuke came in.What are you talking about, Wave arc Kakashi did fine reacting to Zabuza in the mist, he protected Naruto & Sasuke , then protected Sakura & Tazuna.
War arc Kakashi was able to beat Zabuza in the mist by himself.
And Hebi Sasuke is on a whole other level compared to Zabuza.
Sasuke could blitz him
He can evaporate hidden mist jutsu with Katon
He can Genjutsu him seeing as Kakashi did it, & Sasuke is a superior genjutsu sharingan user & an uchiha.
Zabuza is arguably beaten, by Sasuke in Kenjutsu ( that may be going to far) but Raiton and his sword is still very potent.
Sasuke is just a bad match up for Zabuza.
Zabuza already created a counter for sharingan on the battle of the bridge, it seems you really need to read the whole arc again. Genjutsu is useles here. Hebi Sasuke is no blitzing zabuza. Its okay, Sasuke is faster, but you need to be leagues above another character in order to speedblitz him, while zabuza showed speed feats that put him on the same tier pt1 kakashi was, wich is pretty fast.
Fire evapourating mist doesn't work in NV. Madara would have done that against mei's mist if he could. Instead he had to fight against Ay and Oonoki without a clear vision. Not to mention Zabuza's v2 mist >> The one used against Madara. Zabuza was able to almost completely block a sharingan user reflexes, Kakashi only survived due to his Sharingan pre-cog (wich was a lot weakened here) and because naruto and sasuke saved his ass.
Hebi Sasuke beats Zabuza but its not like he can do it easely, while we know that even Kakashi is going to be giving a hand to Zabuza here.
Team Kakasi- Zabuza wins