Originally posted by Darkstorm Zero
I will say this, if one believes an attacks overall power purely by it's explosive output, then of course one would think that Raditz is weaker than Sasuke. However, they would be believing in an incomplete picture. For example, the actual technique Piccolo used to kill both Raditz & Goku simultaneously was a piercing attack, rather than an explosive one.I however, am of the personal belief that the Naruto High enders may break the Raditz hurdle, not due to overall power, because anyone trying to physically overpower Raditz, or clash energy levels with him, would get beaten down horribly. They are not going to beat Raditz in a slugfest. His physical power, his energy manip, and his high end speed COMBINED, make him a powerhouse that is an out-of-context foe. However, they can win using their more esoteric techniques. Hax abilities that can bypass Raditz's strengths are quite common in Naruto.
The problem becomes exasperated exponentially the further one delves into DBZ/Movies/GT. Now, last time I did a thread like this, Naruto characters could not break the Nappa wall according to most people, and that was 2012. Currently, I think they may breach the Nappa wall, but they either get stopped solidly by Vegeta, or if not by that point, you then have guys like Qui, Dodorian, Zarbon, and the Ginyus...
If I am going to be extremely lenient, I would give Naruto characters, at most up to Recoome, who demolishes any Naruto character 1-on-1 despite being dumb as a bag of hammers. There is only so far hax abilities would work before they can get overpowered by sheer speed, power and fighting talent, and Recoome was single handedly pushing in Vegeta's and Krillin's shit, before breaking Gohan's neck with an ankle kick.
Okay, I can work with this. Granted Sasuke still has hax powers on his side but that's another thing.
Back in 2012, that was indeed a correct assessment of Naruto. Now the strongest person from that verse could take Nappa on solo due to actually having a better power output beyond just exploding attacks. Right now I'd say Waitangi Saga Vegeta is the weakest character to solo the Narutoverse.
That's way too lenient. Anyone past the 10k power levels would indeed steamroll the Narutoverse effortlessly. The Narutoverse isn't past Saiyan Saga, but they've cleared the Raditz barrier 2/3 years ago.