After returning to the village with Jiraiya Naruto is tasked by a wealthy family to return their kidnapped daughter from the villainous Avatar and his cohorts.
Naruto (beginning of Shippuden)
Vs
(End of series)
Aang
Sokka
Katara
Toph
Zuko
Suki
Appa
Fight on a glacier in the Southern Water tribe.
Naruto is completely unknown to team Avatar
Naruto has as much information as the Bei Fongs have on team Avatar.
And I didn't even account for Zuko's fire bending. Big ol' A.O.E. attacks are Zuko's specialty and clones don't exactly stick around a while after a good bop.
Naruto is probably stronger, but zyko is still super humanly fast and strong, and he has much better defenses than early shippuden naruto
Early shippuden Naruto can't create 1,000 shadow clones without Kurama.
Early shippuden Naruto can't summon Gamabunta without Kurama.
Early shippuden Naruto has never taken a serious punch from Sakura.
Early shippuden Naruto isn't faster than gaiden Kakashi.
That all being said, I don't remember enough about Avatar to say who wins. I suspect it's the team, though.
Those earthquake style punches are way out of the depth of what anyone can survive in Avatar. But Naruto has shown he can tank punches that send him flying and get back up with only superficial damage.
I do agree about the rest though, but Naruto can create a lot of clones.
If you agree on that point, then the fact that Sakura's serious punches can cause earthquakes is just a red herring. "Naruto can survive punches strong enough to send a person flying" is what's relevant, and that's something I suspect is true of Avatar characters as well.
Are you forgetting that Zuko's war ship exploded on top of him and he was fine. Or that was thrown through several walls in a single hit, and was fine. Or took an enraged avatar state attack and was fine, or constantly gets hit by aang's airbending attacks in season one which can shatter glaciers? Or the time he fell from like 100 feet and landed on his head, and was fine? Getting punched off your feet is hardly a game changer
He wasn’t fine he was pretty damn injured to the point he was exhausted just carrying Aang which we both admit should be nothing to him and the implication was he jumped off but couldn’t avoid the full explosion.
Iroh who knows Zuko’s ability thought he would be dead.
Aang multiple times in the series states he uses non lethal attacks against living beings.
What was the 100 foot fall onto his head? I don’t know what that is.