How I love, when people who probably don't even own Hiruzen claim he is "garbage everywhere except fights vs 50k lower powers".

There are teams with Hiruzen as main source of damage that can easily carry you to 6 paths in arena. Of course you can't do that using brainless EM + Asuma + Hiruzen, but you know, you c*e ninjas in more than one team...

Example:

Hiruzen FM x

Shisui (or any barrier ninja) x x

Edo Sasori x x

Talents: mirror + bani chakra; 3rd mystery, 4th standard, 1st chase, any combo summon (other than tonton)