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Again, this is an ARM WRESTLING match...

How does Tsunade's apprentice fare against the Raikage?...

She goes gaga at the sight of the ripped body, imagines him doing it with Sasuke, and forfeits by default.

She cries like usual.

she doesn't even get a chance to cry as the Raikage breaks her arm off by accident and she goes into shock.

seriously, she's nowhere near the Raikage's level.

She is far stronger than the Raikage being able to punchout even a complete Sage...a level of Sage Mastery not seen among mortal humans since the Great Sage.

If she can do that to the Great Sage of this age, then the Raikage wil turn the page on his AIDS as his defeated outrage materializes on the arm-wrestling stage.

Originally posted by dadudemon
She is far stronger than the Raikage being able to punchout even a complete Sage...a level of Sage Mastery not seen among mortal humans since the Great Sage.

If she can do that to the Great Sage of this age, then the Raikage wil turn the page on his AIDS as his defeated outrage materializes on the arm-wrestling stage.

Aside from his first appearance where he lifts weights A doesn't really have any strength feats. His main attribute seem to be speed, his fighting style even seem impact based.

I would go out on a whim and say Sakura based on hers and Naruto's performance against Kakashi at the beginning of part 2 in the manga. But I'll reserve judgment until further notice.

By feats, Sakura has more brute strength.

On an unrelated note, Raikage would man handle her in a fight.

Sakura's strength comes from her chakra control not her own. Raikage is naturally strong.

They make babies.

Sakura beats him in an arm wrestling match, and so Raikage kidnaps her.

Originally posted by Astner
Aside from his first appearance where he lifts weights A doesn't really have any strength feats. His main attribute seem to be speed, his fighting style even seem impact based.

Didn't he make a pretty big crater liger-bombing Sasuke? A's quite strong, though as-of yet I don't think he's shown better than Sakura.





Well, that goes without saying

Originally posted by Q99
Didn't he make a pretty big crater liger-bombing Sasuke?
That's a feat of speed and acceleration, not strength. Think of it as a comet or meteor, the scale of impact is mainly based off the momentum.

He only jumped up a tiny bit, comparatively. Unless Raikage weighs many tons, the momentum alone can't account for that.

Originally posted by Kento
Sakura beats him in an arm wrestling match, and so Raikage kidnaps her.

I lol'd IRL.

~ What strength feats does Sakura have, that don't involve her punching something? AFAIK, her strength comes from her releasing chakra just as she punches something.

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
I lol'd IRL.

~ What strength feats does Sakura have, that don't involve her punching something? AFAIK, her strength comes from her releasing chakra just as she punches something. She gets her strength the same way Tsunade does iirc. It's all about amping up with chakra. Just like Butterfly Chouji, and Jirobu also.

If she's allowed to amp her arm with chakra, Raikage should be allowed to do so as well ha-son

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
If she's allowed to amp her arm with chakra, Raikage should be allowed to do so as well ha-son He can try. He's good at failing to do things after all like keeping a certain emo boy down XD

Originally posted by Kento
He can try. He's good at failing to do things after all like keeping a certain emo boy down XD

In Raikage's defense, kishi was protecting the Uchiha like a mother-hen(that likes seeing its children getting beat up). What more could he do?

As for the Sakura vs Raikage debate, if you were to factor in actual strength instead of chakra strenght, Raikage would crap on not just Sakura but Tsunade as well.

P.S: Now that someone has brought the whole chakra strenght up I have a question. Since this is an rm-wrestling match and not an actual fight is the chakra increase even allowed? just asking.

Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka
In Raikage's defense, kishi was protecting the Uchiha like a mother-hen(that likes seeing its children getting beat up). What more could he do?

As for the Sakura vs Raikage debate, if you were to factor in actual strength instead of chakra strenght, Raikage would crap on not just Sakura but Tsunade as well.

P.S: Now that someone has brought the whole chakra strenght up I have a question. Since this is an rm-wrestling match and not an actual fight is the chakra increase even allowed? just asking. I wasn't really serious.

Eh, if her chakra amped strength isn't allowed then Sakura has no chance. Since Raikage's nothing but muscle, and Sakura's......Sakura..

Originally posted by Kento
He can try. He's good at failing to do things after all like keeping a certain emo boy down XD

He'll try and succeed admirably against Sakura. That certain emo boy would beat Raikage if they fought now

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
He'll try and succeed admirably against Sakura. That certain emo boy would beat Raikage if they fought now Only cause he'll try to kidnap Chouji for the soldier pills to become Butterfly A. Oh wait the Cloud fails at kidnapping too. Certain emo boy can't beat anybody himself. His opponents beat themselves.

Originally posted by Kento
Only cause he'll try to kidnap Chouji for the soldier pills to become Butterfly A. Oh wait the Cloud fails at kidnapping too. Certain emo boy can't beat anybody himself. His opponents beat themselves.

The Cloud aren't capable of kidnapping their own ninja. 313
Raikage would cause Sakura to be instantly attracted to him.
Only because they realize that that certain emo boy would thrash them very easily. To save themselves from the embarrassment of losing to an emo, they beat themselves

in my mind this is how it goes, Sakura sits down at the table and is all pumped to do this and Raikage is like "...fine.." and JUST THEN Killer Bee walks by and sees this about to unfold locking eyes with his brother, A then kicks the table up knocking Sakura back and Killer Bee and A proceed to Double Lariat her thus beheading her and then locking hands and having a arm wrestling match of their own using her body as the table.

Originally posted by King Kandy
He only jumped up a tiny bit, comparatively. Unless Raikage weighs many tons, the momentum alone can't account for that.
He didn't jump at all, he swung Sasuke to the ground like a mallet. Speed was the deciding factor.

http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/463/04-05/

Originally posted by Astner
He didn't jump at all, he swung Sasuke to the ground like a mallet. Speed was the deciding factor.

http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/463/04-05/ There is no indication of speed at all.

Why would that not be an example of strength?

Originally posted by NemeBro
There is no indication of speed at all.

Why would that not be an example of strength?
Go back one page to the panel just before.

http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/463/03/

It's when he swings him down he gathers speed.

In the same way you throw your fist forward so it will gain speed.

He slammed Sasuke to the ground, shattering the ground with the impact.

Kind of like... All of Sakura's strength feats. They are impact feats.

By that logic we can chalk them all to speed.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Kind of like... All of Sakura's strength feats. They are impact feats.

By that logic we can chalk them all to speed.
Technically you're right.

Actually you're just wrong.

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix

~ What strength feats does Sakura have, that don't involve her punching something? AFAIK, her strength comes from her releasing chakra just as she punches something.

In ep. 103 she rips the mast of a ship from the deck and swings it at some enemies like a club.

Originally posted by Astner
Technically you're right. Velocity x mass right?

In real life, not magic fiction land, you need some amount of strength to throw a strong punch (Generally, leverage is also a big factor), hell, you do not even really need speed for what Raikage did, a powerbomb.

So yea, the Liger Bomb is about as solid a strength feat as you'll get.

I think the crater's a bit bigger than one of Sakura's punches, but it's a full-body both arms move, so per-arm she might have a bit more power.

Originally posted by Q99
So yea, the Liger Bomb is about as solid a strength feat as you'll get.

I think the crater's a bit bigger than one of Sakura's punches, but it's a full-body both arms move, so per-arm she might have a bit more power.
He also needs strength to pick up Sasuke and build up speed for the Liger-bomb.

When it comes to strength, only Tsunade's greater than her IMO. And Sage Mode Naruto of course.

Though afaik, Sakura's strength comes from releasing chakra right at the point of impact, so unless she plans on slapping Raikage's hand during the arm-wrestling match, I don't see how she can win.
Unless of course, she can put chakra in her arms to make them strong for longer than a second.

Originally posted by chilled monkey
In ep. 103 she rips the mast of a ship from the deck and swings it at some enemies like a club.
That's a filler episode, and I don't think it's canon.

Originally posted by Astner
Go back one page to the panel just before.

http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/463/03/

It's when he swings him down he gathers speed.



The Raikage is a gangster!



Look at his pants, all saggin'.

Kishi is my new hero.

Baggy pants are fairly standard in Narutoverse.

Originally posted by Q99
Baggy pants are fairly standard in Narutoverse.
I think he's referring to what appears to be A's third leg sticking out at the right (A's left).

Originally posted by Letum Lettow
They make babies. Originally posted by Kento
Sakura beats him in an arm wrestling match, and so Raikage kidnaps her.

Like I said...

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
That's a filler episode, and I don't think it's canon.

Beg your pardon, but why would you think that?

It happened in the anime so it's canon.

Originally posted by chilled monkey
Beg your pardon, but why would you think that?

It happened in the anime so it's canon.

The anime is often made without input of the original author and sometimes stuff that happens in it doesn't exactly fit with stuff from the manga. Like a ninja village so incredibly weak as having to rely on genin Naruto to save it, or genin Hinata coming up on her own with a better version of the Hyuuga secret rotation technique (which chunin Hinata hasn't shown having even the basic version of. It's a cool ep, but still).


Power levels in the anime yo-yo up and down. I'd rate it as a secondary canon, only to be taken when it doesn't contradict the main canon.

Originally posted by chilled monkey
Beg your pardon, but why would you think that?

It happened in the anime so it's canon.

Originally posted by Q99
The anime is often made without input of the original author and sometimes stuff that happens in it doesn't exactly fit with stuff from the manga. Like a ninja village so incredibly weak as having to rely on genin Naruto to save it, or genin Hinata coming up on her own with a better version of the Hyuuga secret rotation technique (which chunin Hinata hasn't shown having even the basic version of. It's a cool ep, but still).


Power levels in the anime yo-yo up and down. I'd rate it as a secondary canon, only to be taken when it doesn't contradict the main canon.

^ Pretty much that.

Even though this is the anime versus forum, it doesn't change the fact that the Manga overrides the Anime when it comes to canonicity.
Sakura hasn't displayed strength feats that involve lifting and such afaik. All of her strength feats are based on sending out chakra at the instant of impact.

She managed to override Sasori's flying abilities and toss him around like a rag doll. shrug

That said, the mast-swinging example doesn't really contradict anything from the manga.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
She managed to override Sasori's flying abilities and toss him around like a rag doll. shrug Personally I view Raikage's powerbomb as more of a strength feat, in fact I am pretty sure it is better than any of Sakura's impact feats.