He's not fodder! Just because he isn't able to fight equally with the madara, naruto, sasuke or 8 gates guy ( shock gasp suprise! ) a fodder does not make him. He is still top tier, just not ( nor was he ever ) god tier.
Until you discover he still possesses all his thousand justsus and possibly the ability to learn senjutsu and then all the "fodders" crumble to ash around him, along with the town.First Gai surpasses the **** outta him, then his Sharingan is snatched before he even notices it, then that ******* Naruto gives him a normal eye, no chance of a new Sharingan or even Rinnegan then?
WHY YOU DO THIS KISHI!?