The regular fire is no stronger than regular fire of the same size. The earth manipulation is not stronger, either: it's the same thing as the Earth because they are manipulating the earth. Same thing with the wood. In fact, the wood seems to splinter very easily like dry wood. It appears to be weaker than living wood.
Except the fire jutsu cause way more destruction than regular fire, and so on.
An it REALLY is just plain ol' dry wood. Why do I know? Cause Yamato was rebuilding Konoha with it. If it were wet wood, it would warp like made crazy and smell while it dried.
Dry chakra wood =/= normal dry wood.
It was restraining a super-strong monster even with the 4-tails straining against it. Normal wood cannot withstand the strength that can rip through earth like this. And that giant crater? He made that too.
He also with one hand made shockwaves felt hundreds of feet away, that took out Orochimaru's snake swarm and even Sai's ink bird.
Wood a foot thick is very strong. And, he did not seem to be struggling very much when he caught him with the wood. Also, he was initializing the chakra stealing jutsu from the First. All nice elements that point to why a four tales can be capture. Also, a weak form of Oro appears to be physically stronger than the four tails cloak.
Not strong enough to hold back something that had no problem ripping through dozens of feet of Earth and punching huge craters. Not even close.
Also he had not yet activated the first's Biju jutsu, he restrained the
Kyuubi first and only started that one after it started to break free. Here
And that form of Oro used a sword to drag him something like a mile across the ground destroying every tree in it's path. It was only 'weak' in the sense that after using too much chakra/regens it started to break down, not in the sense of actually being physically weak in any way.
A final thing I'll note, Kyuubi's chakra was literally burning everything else living it touched, like Orochimaru's snakes, yet the wood stayed strong.
Originally posted by King Kandy
If we need a class above SSS then it's a sign we're inflating the top too much.
Yes, really. Considering we might have, what, 3-4 people above S+? Most if not all of whom are likely going to be SS-?