We're talking peak Hiruzen here, not the significantly aged one from the original Naruto series. This means in terms of both physical stature and chakra levels, he's much greater.

That being out of the way, both of these two have been called 'The God of Shinobi', and the greatest of the Hokage. Hashirama was said to have powers that many wrote off as a fairy tale, while Hiruzen was said to be the strongest of the five Kage even in his advanced age. The only restriction is that Hashirama may not enter Sage/Hermit Mode, other than that this is fair game. Setting: The rocky area where Pain used Chibaku Tensei against Naruto. I agree Hashirama is the stronger of the two, but considering that even in his old age he successfully took on both Hashirama and Tobirama, I don't see how he's going to get his ass kicked here. I mean, he is a master of all 5 chakra elements, and has the most vast knowledge of ninjutsu of anyone else in the series. His Adamatine Nyoi is harder than diamond, and has the power to drive back the complete Kurama and smash through the Shinju's branches.

And if all else fails, he does have the Reaper Death Seal, which IIRC unlike in his old age, he can use with ranged distance. I don't see Hiruzen being outclassed here. If anything, out of all of the Hokage he is second to Hashirama, and Madara considered Tobirama to be someone of his own caliber pre-Rinnegan. Well honestly, I have no clue why you guys are saying Hashi wins this. Without his sage mode, Sarutobi should be perfectly capable of beating him. He was apparently stronger than Jiraiya even in his old age, and was recently able to stand up to Jyuubito in his old age for a bit.

They were both considered the god of shinobi though, but I still think that since Saru knows every jutsu there is, and is just as strong as Hashi, he should be able to pull a win, at least since Hashi doesn't have sage mode in this. Hashirama wins. Barring the obvious fact that a Prime Hiruzen Sarutobi is an unknown, there's lip-service, his status as one of Ashura's reincarnations, stupidly ridiculous high-level feats & jutsu that blow anything Sarutobi has demonstrated way out of the park, and so on and so forth, that swing this fight in Hashirama's favour. There's also Tsunade being unable to fathom just how powerful her grandfather was for being able to defeat Madara, and being Hiruzen's pupil, she'd know the extent of Hiruzen's power. Hashirama operated on another level entirely.

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Originally posted by NewGuy01 He's not, really. Just think of Old Sarutobi with greater chakra reserves and stamina, or just look to Edo Sarutobi for reference. That moment where he fought the smaller Thousand Fist Statue summoned by Guruguru by using high level techniques from each chakra nature via Shadow Clones was badass in itself. His most ridiculous jutsu were done in Sage Mode, which is not available to him in this fight.