Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
Your old position was Minato > Hashirama based on their fights with Madara. uhuh
No, that Minato is better than the Tobi that Minato fought and that a full powered Madara was not different than Tobi because, at the time, we thought that Tobi had the EMS Sharingan from Madara and that that was still the same madara but with less chakra.
Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
Everyone agrees that Minato > Pre-Rinnegan & Izanagi Tobi.
I was arguing that the version of "Madara" that Tobi fought wasn't functionally weaker than his prime version: just had about half as much chakra to do jutsus with (meaning, he was just as powerful in abilities, speed, techs, etc...but just couldn't spam them as much as his prime because Hashirama "did" something to him).
His idea that the 10-tails would restore him to that form supported my position (because, we just had to assume it was Madara) and the 10-tails was just a chakra boost AND a new eye technique (that eye technique was additional to the chakra boost).
Keep in mind that I think that the full powered Kyuubi has as much as if not more chakra than all other 8 beasts combined. So I see the beasts as having as much chakra, on average, as much as a powerful chakra wielding ninja (like A or Jiraiya).
Well, I was being serious. uhuh
Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
If Tobi activates Izanagi before the Ball hits, then I see no reason why it wouldn't work even if he and the eye got vaped, which is likely what happened when Konan used those explosions.
Danzo and the eyes were turned into mulch right after he first used Izanagi. It worked out just fine.
I don't remember that happening. He was still "whole" and his eyes were too.
Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
Ahh okay. Yeah, they couldn't get past multiple Bijuu Balls. Minato could transport more than 2-5 IMO. He only had trouble when he had to transport the Kyuubi as well, who is huge, and this was after his fight with Tobi.
I thought it was the combo that caused him to tire? Transporting the blast and the bijuu was what I thought wore him out. It's the size of the object that wears you out, isn't it? The larger it is, the more chakra it takes?
But, yes, the blast would be smaller than the bijuu. Only when the Kyuubi created the ultimate bijuu ball did it absurdly eclipse the size of himself.
Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
His Giant Shark Missile absorbs chakra and gets stronger in proportion.
Sh*t, you're right. I forgot about that. cry
That was the whole thing about Gai's attack being effective: a major plot point of why Gai still won: it wasn't chakra.
So, yeah, add that to the list of characters that could take a Kyuubi wielding ninja.
Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
The other Bijuu certainly wouldn't stand up to the Kyuubi in a fight, and I never said otherwise. What I stated was that a Bijuu could tank Menacing Balls depending on the circumstances.
Could they? I don't think even the Kyuubi could take his own blast, can he?
Wasn't the kyuubi willing to kill himself in Naruto's mind just to avoid getting tamed by Naruto with his ultimate bijuu blast thing?
Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
Hachibi was unaffected by his own Bijuu Ball which vaped a valley, and he later stopped a Yang chakra Kyuubi Menacing Ball inside Naruto's head.
But wasn't he on the very edge of the blast radius of that? I don't remember, man. And didn't he stop it by using some sort of nulling effect that used up all his chakra (lending credence to my thought that the kyuubi not only has more chakra than the others...but much more so even in his half chakra mode form...granted, B did say it took more chakra to be in Naruto's head(no homo)).
Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
And yes, more tails = more chakra. I'm undecided on the 9 Tails being the strongest right now, but based on what Kisame said near the beginning of Part 2, the Kyuubi apparently had about as much chakra as the other 8 Bijuu did combined. That was at full power.
Really? Where did Kisame say that? Because that supports the position I held about the nine tails all these years.
That ALSO explains why Hashirama would give away multiple bijuu (for money or something): he kept one so powerful that even if they all banded together to fight Konoha, Konoha could still come out on top because his equaled all 8 others (or was greater in power).