General & Others Rank the hokage

#1
Rules for the thread
This goes based on who would be the best ruler, From dealing with threats to the responsibilities they hold
it goes 1 to 8, with 8 being the worst

The characters used here are as seen below


My Own List

1. danzo, He was active in dealing threats to the village safety like kabuto and sasuke at the time. He was also willing to forgo his own safety if he meant saving konoha much like his rival sarutobi. He also was willing to forgo his own creditably by mind controlling mifune and ensuring the formation of the shinobi alliance to deal with the threat of tobi


2. Minato was a kage for a couple years and all the things that happened wrong under his rein were not even his own fault like the kyubi being in konoha that was hashirama's genius choice though he managed to deal with the threat though if not for sarutobi's own plans at taking back power. Minato would still be alive and minato did make some stupid choices like having kakashi be an anbu to deal with ptsd had from battle


3, Sarutobi failed at every task expected of him not only did he fail to kill orochimaru causing the sound and sand to invade the leaf but he actively gave no care about the safety of the child that he was expected to protect that being naruto not only that but he failed at protecting minato when he could of saved him. Danzo confirmed that this done to ensure his own seat back in office.

He also refused to gain orochimaru a hokage position despite no counter arguments being given to danzo's reasoning that he was more experied,esblished and even knowledgable. He suggested minato out of spite for danzo and saru had so little confidence in this spite pick that he literally went on to spar with him just to see if he was able. You can say that was just a game scene but my point still stands minato was a spite pick

4. Tsunade, She failed at everything like she couldt stop madara or even protect konoha from pain's invasion not only that but she sucked at her job employing force on the senior council of the village to get what she wants clearly violating whatever laws that konoha has also she sends genin to deal with a sannin during the sra arc showing that she cannot properly assign missions

Maybe if you ignored all this she would be a great leader you say but her proneness to anger and bias nearly lead to the jinchruki getting captured something that everyone on the coulsil warned her of not only that though her drinking problems created to cope with her husband and brother dying makes her too mentally comprised to ever lead

5. Tobirama, This dude created every uchiha conflict that we see in series indirectly by his sheer and utter bigotry also his own policies lead to child soldiers being common place something that his brother made konoha to stop not only that but he put a kid sarutobi in power due to his own inability to deal with jonin level foes
His creation of the edo tensei jutsu also lead to him indirectly killing saru his own student as had he never invented edo tensei hiruzen would of had enough energy to pull orochimaru's soul out not only that though but this jutsu created by him caused the deaths of at least thousands of shinobi in the fourth world war

6. Hashirama was a naïve idiot and a hypocrite who's actions nearly caused the downfall of the entire world like enabling his racist brother caused the uchiha genoside and his best friend madara becoming the evil foe that he became. Also caused the indirect deaths of minato,kushina and iruka's parents by keeping the kyubi slaved to konohagakure
He also gave the bjuu to every different nation causing years of war and making the akatsuki's efforts to capture them rather easy like if not for this choice then it would be impossible for anyone to ever capture the bjuu so he indirectly caused the deaths of neji,shikaku,asuma,jiraya and rin.


7. Naruto not only did he fail at protecting the leaf from threats like momo and isshiki but he fails at policy reform like he promised to gain the hyuga slaves freedom from their masters but did no such thing and not only that but he harbored a known threat to the safety of his nation kawaki. Mind you this kid was a member of a terrorist organization kara so logically as a leader it would of been naruto's responbility to kill this threat for the safety of his own


8. Kakashi, Was a horrible leader failing to deal with the chino threat instead letting a known terrorist that he aided and supported deal with the threat not only did he risk the safety of konoha by doing this but it also shows that he values his emotional connections over his role as a leader something that everybody above naruto to some degree could act upon
 
#4
And I don't want to look like Tsunade fanboy, but her rebuilding village, bringing it back to the top and turning former oppressor into an ally in such short amount of time with so little experience as a political figure is hella impressive.

When she became Hokage, village was a mess and she made Konoha great again. She should be up there on any list like that for these few first weeks alone.
 
#5
Danzo let Pein destroy village
he tried, His best to prevent it from occurring
killed the messager toad so that naruto would not be in the village for pain to take


informed the council to take action when pein did strike so they can take military action



Pein would of destroyed konoha regardless of what danzo had done, as danzo said, it's what happens when you teach foreigners and give them kindness as danzo once said. I mean if you think about it, Is he really wrong? Who was the one behind the death of the third hokage, Sunagakure or the sand village





Danzo was the best hokage.
 
#6
he tried, His best to prevent it from occurring
killed the messager toad so that naruto would not be in the village for pain to take


informed the council to take action when pein did strike so they can take military action



Pein would of destroyed konoha regardless of what danzo had done, as danzo said, it's what happens when you teach foreigners and give them kindness as danzo once said. I mean if you think about it, Is he really wrong? Who was the one behind the death of the third hokage, Sunagakure or the sand village





Danzo was the best hokage.
he tried his best to stop naruto from stoping Pein?
 
#7
he tried his best to stop naruto from stoping Pein?
To stop naruto from being captured, They already had most of jinchruki at the time


Danzo knows naruto could not completely control the kyubi, Why would he think that they would fair any better then bee and yagura did

He has perfect reason to have naruto stay out of combat, Those who are seemingly better then him have fallen plus just makes no sense to take the rist


He said, konoha would be destroyed had they done what tsunade wanted and you know he was right



guess they shoulda just listened to danzo and kept the kyubi out of konoha
 
#9
You realise Konoha got destroyed while Naruto wasn't there, right? And neither he nor anyone of his formation tried to stop him.
You realize, Pain was only there to get the kyubi had they just told him the truth that he was on toad island or whatever then he would of screwed off to that island where they can just collectively ambush pain all of the shinobi at once, Cloud,stone or whatever nation would surely be fine with assisting

Pain and his organization is a international threat at this point and has collected beasts which can nuke continents right, But if it was wrote like this then pein would of died far quicker
 
#10
You realize, Pain was only there to get the kyubi had they just told him the truth that he was on toad island or whatever then he would of screwed off
He learned he's on toad island or whathever and THEN he destroyed village ANYWAY because he wanted to show them pain xd
 
#15
Best Rulers:

1. Tobirama, canonically Oda's established him as the best Hokage when it comes to leadership of the village.
2. Hiruzen Reign #1, leading the village through 3 wars... I mean
3. Hashirama, was effective in the short time he had as Hokage.
4. Kakashi, industrialized the leaf like crazy
5. Tsunade, 2nd least amount of time as far as we know
6. Minato, least amount of time.. didn't really do much in terms of leadership
7. Hiruzen Reign #2, the worst Hokage by a huge margin


The last 3 are really hard to judge since Kakashi has the benefit of peace time in being able to develop the village along with the likes of Naruto & Sasuke supporting him. I'm sure Minato & Tsunade if they had more time than Kakashi in a peaceful era would've been better. Though I can make an argument for Tsunade being the better leader than Kakashi even still, but too much work.


If Hashirama had more time as Hokage he'd be #1, he is the best leader in general for Naruto-verse. But for Hokage due to his time limit compared to the others, he's gonna take the #3 position.
 
#19
#DanzoDidNothingWrong
Other than multiple assassinations on the Hokage
Other than setting up the Uchiha genocide
Other than teaming up with enemies of the village in middle of a war to overthrow the Hokage
Other than chilling around for the Hokage and people of the village to die so he can take over

Sounds like the Hokage Konoha needed I guess.
 
#20
Other than multiple assassinations on the Hokage
Other than setting up the Uchiha genocide
Other than teaming up with enemies of the village in middle of a war to overthrow the Hokage
Other than chilling around for the Hokage and people of the village to die so he can take over

Sounds like the Hokage Konoha needed I guess.
Justified assassinations
The world is better off without the Uchiha clan
Justified
Justified

 
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