Orochimaru with His Arms is Busted. He is a Threat to Almost Anyone.
He has an even more impressive statement than the one Jiraiya said about Minato being a once in a decade talent. Orochimaru is called a once in a couple decades type of Prodigy by Hiruzen who is trained by the other God of Shinobi Hashirama The Fist Hokage and his Brother Tobirama The Second Hokage. And Has seen all Shinobi talent throughout the History of Konoha and is the only other to be given the title " God of Shinobi ". Over Minato.
Danzo who is around since the Founders similar age to Hiruzen's, and was Part of a war with Tobirama and Hiruzen and like him, Danzo saw Hashirama and Tobirama aswell, and has seen many talents in the Academy's History. He Chooses a Young Orochimaru to be his Personal Guard over anyone else including Kakashi who is known to be one of the best Prodigies, has The Sharingan, Raikiri, and worldwide fame gained from his accomplishments in the War, and copying over 1,000 Jutsu. and even graduated at 5 and became the youngest Jonin ever, cut through a lightning bolt with his Raikiri. Danzo still chooses Orochimaru over Kakashi.
Hiruzen also mentions that Orochimaru was the most Talented of The Sannin.
( Hiruzen is stated The " Strongest Kage of All Nations " )
( The Sannin are stated to
" Stand Beyond Any Kage "
This includes all the current alive 5 Kage and Orochimaru scales individually stronger than each one. He was able to Kill Hiruzen )
Orochimaru's Style Body Replacement and Durability in general is arguably better than Hashirama's or Tsunade's. Like Brother has been Pummeled, bysected all over his face, Neck and almost through his entire upper body by Kabuto, burnt, crashed across forests, cut in half, partially Hit by a TBB, he just reconstructs his Body no Matter how much damage it recieves, or creates a new one that shoots out of the Older Body and keeps going like is nothing 💀💀 He also has Hashirama's Cells aswell and the chakra Buff from those. Like honestly Orochimaru sometimes be on some Wolverine shit.
The fact that Orochimaru outlived everyone and All Wars, The Akatsuki. And the other guys that are known to be Tanks or Have great Regen. Says a lot about his Durability, Resilience, his ability to adapt and his Survival instincts / skills overall.
Tsunade with her Byakugo was able to Punch through Edo Madara have really impressive showings with the AP of her Punches. and Orochimaru just tanks them with a Weakened Body. and Arms Recently sealed and completely useless. He brawls with the other 2 Sannin simultaneously (All 3 Had Handicaps to be Fair. still impressive tho.)
Tanked Powerful Shinra Tensei from Pain and was there suprised by it but chilling 😆 (While getting Recruited to The Akatsuki by Sasori and Pain, prior to this Orochimaru also had a whole battle with Sasori and his 3rd Kazekage Puppet just for Fun)
Has all Basic Chakra Natures, All Kekkei Genkai Sound 4 and Taka abilities (Except Sasuke), Ying Release, Yang Release, and Wood Release.
Orochimaru's in the Anime displayed advanced prowess in Clone techniques, medical Ninjutsu, Space-time Ninjutsu, And Barrier Ninjutsu.
He contains chakra and aura strong enough that is able to Make Kakashi Panic and Sweat and question why he ever oppossed Orochimaru. With his chakra Orochimaru is able to Match Hirzune's, and impress Pain and intimidate Sasori. His chakra aura strong enough to make Kakashi panic and paralyze Sasuke with his Sharingan.
He even holds his own in the aura chakra flexing that Tobirama did. That had EMS Sasuke shaken up.
Praised by Hashirama Senju who overpowered everyone's chakra there, Orochimaru looked like the Best to hold his own in this scene. The first " God of Shinobi " Orochimaru Was the guy Hiruzen chose to be his Succesor. You know the Protege of One of The " God of Shinobi ".
Can summon Rashōmon Gates that are able to Block Bijuu Bomb level attacks or atleast deflected them.
At Some point after the Fourth Ninja War, Orochimaru's body became able to instantly Regenerate his lost anatomy unfazed.
Orochimaru in Boruto is able to defeat a Kara inner, Victor. He is buffed by scientific ninja tools, his chakra, physicals, Victor is also able to regenerate limbs and use all five nature transformations.
Orochimaru through his living corpse Reincarnation Technique, is able to emit some sort of Poisonous Gas or fumes that paralyzes you after you damage his White Snake Form. if you inhale it and he starts his body transfer process in his own pocket Dimension. Orochimaru could be troublesome with this and his Edo Tensei Shinobi backing up the Process. He was forced to use it in a Weakened state or without prior having any options to Weaken Hebi Sasuke, Most his Jutsu and Power was sealed away in the belly of The Reaper by Hiruzen using RDS on him.
However. When he does have both his arms back. And Access to all his Jutsu, Research, Data, experience and durability. Orochimaru is a threat to any Shinobi in the Ninja World. Even The Akatsuki, other Nations and Jinchūriki considered him a threat. I mean the Guy literally invaded Konoha and Killed Their Hokage, prior to this Orochimaru casually Killed the 4th Kazekage Rasa.
Orochimaru is very adept in taijutsu also, masterful in wielding the legendary Sword of Kusanagi, able to compete against his former teacher Hiruzen while wielding his mighty emna Adamantine Staff that is even able to Push the 9 Tails outside the Village and Tank Deep Forest Emergence from Hashirama. The blade is able to extend great distances, cut through almost anything, and even be remotely controlled. He is also able to adapt and shape his Body to any needs, He is very strong, able to knock down a tree with a single kick, and temporarily stunned a second state Four-Tails Naruto with his punch and physically brawl with him, and Launched him across a forest with his Kusanagi Sword 💀.
He is also blazingly fast, able to move with such sudden change in direction to leaving even a Sharingan user disoriented or an Akatsuki member like Sasori. Able to catch the Captain Yamato's Zetsu amped form with the 5 Elements Sage Wood Statue off guard. And Seal him momentarily. Able to slither extremely fast towards Tendo Pain to the point that He is forced to Use Shinra Tensei. Orochimaru's Speed is a Good tier just below the high tier Speedsters. But durable and fast enough to still be a threat.
Orochimaru has many summons and jutsu to help pressure even Speedsters. As one of his Summons is also Minato with the FTG. And Hashirama who can make entire forests and mostly control the Battlefield.
Has Snakes small enough to enter the Armor of Others and even sensor type, to Poison them off guard. Has Poisonous Snakes in General. Can Spawn an entire Mountain of them. Those can then be used to overwhelm and Poison or can take Blades out their mouths too. It Takes Jinchūriki second State aoe type of chakra attacks to counter those.
Which means Orochimaru doesn't need to typically be a high tier Speedster himself to fight them. Tobirama also has The Absolute Darkness genjutsu for Battlefield control and to help as a genjutsu counter measure. He can also FTG to Orochimaru to break him out of a genjutsu by disrupting his Chakra.
Has the 5 Elements Seal which seals the selected individual's chakra he uses it on and makes them unable to use it properly. Able to seal off the 9 tails chakra from leaking out even just a little bit.
People praise Jiraiya for being versatile for Good Reason, but honestly Orochimaru is as much if not more Versatile, and via his Edo Tensei specially + The added benefit of his insane Regen.
The Suigetsu Believed Orochimaru with both his arms back was a mayor threat to the last MS Sasuke he saw during the Kage summit, the MS sasuke that was fighting The 4th Raikage A and Kazekage Gaara.
(People will throw this off as Wank by Suigetsu however. Even Sasuke does not even disagree with this. Suigetsu is able to face 8 tails Killer Bee with his water Release Tate Eboshi form and even Tank a TBB and distort it away from Taka who where running with an injured Sasuke. Although He went unconcious from it, that is still a very impressive feat. But, also Suigetsu knows Orochimaru and Sasuke well, He knows what He's talking about.)