Didn't get the point. Having a 5 in ninjutsu in no way makes you a top tier ninjutsu user.
And the time of the databook is irrelevant to this discussion since Tsunade had a 5 before all these new feats...
Actually this is actually just stupidity at this point. What is the databook? Is it Kishi's way of elaborating on that which is but not explicitly stated or displayed? Well yes, that's exactly what it seems to be. That may be why it explicates what justus do and provide a power level to them. Actually I wonder if that's why Kishi seems to include information that doesn't exist within the pages of the manga... such as enumerating which elements characters have or don't have. I sure wonder why the skills have a rating next to them between one and five Even the skills we haven't seen seem to have ratings next to them? I can't possibly seem to imagine why? I wonder if those ratings mean to state how proficient those characters are at the thing they are next to? Why would Kishi include that kind of information? Is he trying to to explicate tiers of abilities to allow us to understand his artistic vision and the portrayal of characters?
This post is oozing of fanfic. A lot of assumptions made for a top tier ninjutsu user.
The execution point makes no sense to begin with. If his curse is a ninjutsu its of the highest quality, how he fights aside from that (his speed, reactions etc.) has absolutely nothing to do with the ninjutsu itself.
Again this is idiocy, if Kishi says that Hidan's skill in Ninjutsu is that which warrants a 5 then the burden of proof is on those who wish to say that when he performs ninjutsu it is not masterfully performed. However, if it can't be disproved there is no contradiction and Kishi's rating remains valid. Not seeing him use ninjutsu (which we did see) and not seeing him use many jutsu still doesn't mean his doesn't have a mastery of the ninjutsu he possess. And as 5 is the highest rating, the top tier of all of the ratings, that means that he has a mastery of the ninjutsu that he uses. And that the ninjutsu is difficult enough that mastery of it gains him the highest tier of ranking in ninjutsu. None of this is complicated. Pretty basic stuff.
Databook scores doesnt mean much when the character has displayed zilch in terms of ninjutsu. Gaara in the 3rd db has a 5 in ninjutsu if am not mistaken yet i dont see him utilize actual ninjutsu i mean we are talking about someone who literally jumped/ran to punch madaras katonand you are telling me she is a top tier ninjutsu user? joke if you ask me. run and punch, run and punch with medical ninjutsu, thats tsunade for you period
bold. so what? sakura also has byakugou, is she a top tier ninjutsu user now? pls. if you want to say top tier medical ninjutsu user then fine but overstating her feats in that one category in no way shape or form makes her a top tier ninjutsu user in general. otherwise we might as well be calling sakura a top tier ninjutsu user. face it, you are making assumptions with nothing concrete to go on
Did you say that Gaara hasn't earned his 5 in ninjutsu? Literally every move we've ever seen Gaara use was ninjutsu. Thus there are two possibilities you have no idea what your talking about, or you think Gaara is incompetent as a ninja and kage.
Are you thick? "Databook Scores don't mean much when a character hasn't displayed has displayed zilch"? Actually it means everything. It means you have no room to comment, because there are no contradictions. Kishi has stated it as fact and thus it is so as there are no contradictions. You just don't like that it is so. You want it not to be so. But there's no conceivable reason why it isn't so. How else do you suppose you measure a character's ninjutsu ability when you haven't seen it? Are you going to assume they possess no ninjutsu and are incapable of shunshin jutsu and even bunshin jutsu, what about substitution jutsu are we to assume that those who you haven't seen use the most basic of ninjutsu are incapable of doing so? You assume that unless you see something, and you didn't see the vast majority of Tsunade or Hidan's arsenal, that you know what isn't in it when Kishimoto states otherwise.
So when you see some one use a top tier Katon jutsu almost exclusively are they a top tier ninjutsu user, probably as their skills in that ninjutsu is top tier. If a person uses top tier sand ninjutsu are they a top tier ninjutsu user? Yes, Gaara is. Likewise top tier medical ninjutsu, namely that which is the gold standard for chakra control certainly implies that their usage of other ninjutsu would be flawless if its of lesser difficulty. Medical ninjutsu is ninjutsu, it takes the most precise of chakra control. Tsunade developed, not just used, but created two S-rank techniques. One of which rivaled the skill portrayed by the God of Shinobi.
Luckily, no one asked you as you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Tsunade punched away the Katon because someone undeniably top tier in ninjutsu couldn't form a ninjutsu fast enough to counter. So you think she should have started trying to form a ninjutsu after Mei displayed that her ninjutsu wouldn't have been fast enough? Yeah that makes sense. The only response that possibly would have made sense would be a physical defense. Otherwise Gaara and Oonoki's two pronged defense could have been used again. However even the manga hints at Tsunade have strong ninjutsu skills. In fact what were Kabuto's words when we he got hit by Ranshinsho, yes, he described the power of being that of a living legend, y'know because the jutsu is of a high tier technique exceeding his own abilities, which were on par with Kakashi's at the time.