Part 1 Tier List
This was harder to do than I thought. Mix of feats and hype. Here are some of my thoughts:
- Edo Hashirama and Tobirama are nerfed, Hiruzen was able to get off powerful hits on them and ultimately seal not just them but Orochimaru's arms all while being blind.
- Minato and Itachi are hard to place and I don't mind dropping them into Mid Kage, but Oro admits inferiority to Itachi, and all the quotes about Minato in part 1 really go towards his placing as well as FTG + Rasengan combo being incredible.
- Kisame hadn't shown enough to be placed higher, Sakumo extremely hard to rank but have to assume he's around the same strength as a younger Sannin. Dan and Fugaku must have been at least somewhat comparable to a Kage for either of their plots to make sense.
- Ranking some of the elite Jonin is difficult. Firstly, Zabuza lost to LOW Kakashi twice who was obviously weaker than post-training Kakashi due to low chakra reserves, but is pretty much the definition of an Elite Jonin, and Kakashi doesn't show any Kage level feats at all in part 1. Kurenai and Asuma are pretty hard to rank, but either High or Elite Jonin seems fair. Both were able to do something to Kisame, though arguably Asuma made more progress.
I think the rest is pretty self-explanatory.
How did I do? Let me know where I'm wrong!
