Orochimaru didn't use any real ninjutsu on Hiruzen, he sat back and had the Edo Tensei fight for him so in a straight up clash IDK how comparable they are. He caught Orochimaru napping and Orochimaru suffered for it.
Kakashi's got great feats against Kakuzu but wasn't able to keep up with Kakuzu's relentless assault with ninjutsu and TBH the major reason he got the draw on Kakuzu was because Kakuzu didn't know Kakashi was coming.
Well even a orochimaru's body who was severely rejecting him was still able to keep up in combat against the 4 tails version of naruto, much less a more healthy 2 armed orochimaru who hiruzen disarmed in close quarters combat.
It's crazy that Mayuri has like 3 major battles in the TYBW Arc, one of them against an Elite Stern Ritter which lasts like 2 volumes, while people like Toshirou and Byakuya got negged left and right and only has like 1 chapter of shining against Gerald before eventually getting negged. God damn Kubo and his Mayuri wanks.
Well even a orochimaru's body who was severely rejecting him was still able to keep up in combat against the 4 tails version of naruto, much less a more healthy 2 armed orochimaru who hiruzen disarmed in close quarters combat.
That just makes me think of Inuyasha's author and how they wrote Kagome and how annoying she is. Every fifteen chapters we need the mandatory and repetitive "maybe Inuyasha should go with Kikyo... I'm worthless to him..." arc.
I think Kakuzu is like a tier at least, possibly 2 tiers below.
Really the only akatsuki members I put on at least Sannin tier are Orochimaru (obviously), Obito (far above), Itachi, Pain, Kisame, and MAYBE Sasori (though I'm a LOT higher on him than most)
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