Do the four Boruto Era Kage (without Naruto) do better against Edo Madara than the War Arc Five Kage?
VS BattleAbsolutely not. I never understand those people that think that just because the newer Kage were pressing a non-fused Momoshiki and tagging Kinshiki that the virtue of them simply being Otsutsuki's gives them free valor as "stronger than Kaguya." It literally boggles my mind that people accept that as truth despite the verses' own rules of power and even their own feats completely go against that point.
While this group of Kage is younger so will lack some weaknesses of the previous Kage (e.g. A's missing arm, Ohnoki's fragile back), they have none of the monstrous traits their predecessors had that made them so strong.
DISCUSSION:
- The Boruto Kage are strong no doubt, but they all are exemplifications of technique and skill development, while lacking much of the raw power of their predecessors.
- Ay's power alone, as a shinobi with Tailed Beast levels of chakra and Yellow Flash level speed, wasn't getting any true finishing shots on a Madara that was playing around. A Darui with only his sword, Storm Release, and Black Lightning that have never power like the Third and Fourth Raikage, will not touch Madara.
- Mei's power in the Five Kage was as the distance fighter, something that only Gaara embodied in the Boruto era. While Chojuro has greater skills than her in the short range department, his skills don't mesh well with the boruto era Kage like Mei's did to aid the other Kage in positioning attacks on Madara.
- Kurotsuchi is more nimble than Ohnoki but, just like with Darui, she doesn't have nearly the power that Ohnoki did using his Weighted Boulder Jutsu to augment his punches and Dust Release to obliterate his target to atoms. What's more Ohnoki was the most experienced of the previous generation and Madara noted the difference it made in dealing with the power gap. Kurotsuchi can't possibly bridge that same gap.
- Gaara in Boruto is obviously improved from Naruto's Gaara, however this is mostly in technique. He didn't achieve massive growth in power, only in rounding out his skills. A battle with a Madara with decades of combat experience in the harshest battlefields would still barely change with this new Gaara.
All in all, outside of Boruto Otsutsuki scaling wankers, most people with logic see that Boruto's Kage are very balanced in their skills and show a lot of improvement in technique and skill that came with learning from the past.
However, they lack the monstrous raw power of their predecessors and, in all cases, except Gaara, the Boruto Kage have far less actual experience, considering the Naruto Kage were on average older and had utilized their skills repetitively in multiple shinobi wars unlike the newer gen that only experienced the Fourth war.
I'd daresay the battle won't even go as far as it did with the original Five Kage, since Ohnoki's Dust Release, Tsunade's strength, the combo of Ohnoki and Ay's nintaijutsu, and the Five Kage's full synergistic combo on Madara were the only things that pushed him to use the Perfect Susanoo out of some respect for them, feats of individual and team power I've not seen at all from the new Kage (with the exception of Naruto of course, but he's not considered here).
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Name one technique in their arsenal or an example of any one of them using an attack that could come at all close to putting Edo Madara down.