A win against B, B win against C doesn't mean A will win against C. Also need to take their performances, stamina at that point. Anyone can be kill if they are having low morale, poor performances no matter how many OP feats they had.

Madara 10 Jinchuriki died to sneaky Zetsu.

Tobirama is a very strong shinobi yet died to 20-ish cloud shinobis.

Sasori died to Sakura and Chiyo.

Sarutobi died to Orochimaru,

Neji lost to Naruto in part 1.

Etc...

There are many factors to make a stronger shinobi lose to the weaker one just like in real life there is a G.O.A.T player name Faker yet he didn't win certain tournament lmao. What I mean to say is, feats are just feats, they don't guarantee a shinobi with greater feats will win against weaker opponents every time and this apply to everyone.

Okay so first off, I used that A>C>B thing because it's how people like to downplay Tobirama in saying he is weaker than Darui, when in fact that isn't the case. In case I didn't make it clear, Tobirama lost to 20 elite ninja, all of which are at least jonin level. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, quite the opposite. But the point that I'm trying to make is Tobirama is stronger than what people make him out to be:; specifically speaking, he may have almost died taking on gin and kin at the same time, but that doesn't mean he is weaker than Darui who was actually able to beat gin and kin. That's what I meant and been pointing out.

Now, for you saying "feats are just feats" well that is certainly true when we consider the character itself. Every character in fiction has the potential to do better. But we use feat scaling when we pit two characters against each other when in reality it would be impossible for them to meet each other in the story due to lore. Going to the earlier example, Tobirama and Darui didn't interact with each other and would be impossible to meet each other due to Tobirama being dead for two generations before Darui was even born. So to settle a hypothetical fight between them, there is no other choice but to use feats that they both accomplished (and also compare them to similar fights or opponents they fought) to come up with a conclusive winner.

Again, I'm not trying to settle any "who would win" this time. I'm just trying to give Tobirama the credit he deserves and let people know how strong he actually is because people tend to think he is one of the weakest of the kage.

edit: also, the fight examples you gave all have specific reasons for why they lost. But for Tobirama against the kinkaku force and against the kin and gin brothers, there wasn't really a stated reason to how and why he lost which is what makes it such a frustrating case since it was clearly shown how powerful Tobirama was in the war and yet was beaten by two ninjas who obviously should not have been able to keep up with his speed and technique.

Itachi uses Kotoamatsukami on him with the crow, a genjutsu that requires no eye contact and is also the strongest in the series.

Itachi would also Totsuka sweep and Amaterasu those 20 jonin level ninjas including Gin and Kin like they were nothing.

But yea Tobirama is cool, he couldn't even take Madara by surprise behind his back with his teleport.

And also Black Zetsu used all the chakra from the Infinite Tsukuyomi. then put it inside Madara and somehow it was too much for him so he imploded and turned into Kaguya. I think he didn't dodge him because he thought he was on his side.

Uchiha > everyone else

too many hax

Can you get out of your itachi fanboying just once and try to keep on topic? NOWHERE did I state or even compare him to Itachi and didn't even say he is weaker or stronger than anyone. Just the Darui and Gin and Kin part but does that warrant you trying to literally insert your Itachi *? You had your chance with the thread you made about Itachi. Now give other characters a chance without constantly pulling up Itachi.

I made it very clear this post is meant to gauge and show Tobirama. Not a competition of who is stronger, but how strong he is.

I'm just trying to justify why a strong ninja can be beaten by weaker ninjas. I don't mean to deny anything you said about tobirama.

Ahh yeah I'm sorry too. I'm a bit on edge with these kinds of threads I make because of some people who can't seem to understand a logical argument and just keep saying things from how they want to see it; even if ends up with them disregarding logic just to prove their character is greater.

"...weak enough to lose to some wannabe nine-tails jinchuriki..." I kinda disagree here.

Tobirama's fight and Darui's fight are totally different.

Tobirama group was already attacked by Kinkaku Force. That leaves the factor that he's already weakened.

To hold off 20 elite ninjas with Gin and Kin, who had power of Kage level (with 9 tail chakra) for period of time to let his group made a safe escape.

Imagine scenario where 20 ninjas splits in small groups to chase after his group and had to defend that.

Meanwhile Darui's fight he and other ninjas were able to all-in those two, thus they struggled to win with the help of Sage Tools.

I'll never understand such topics. Babling about who is who in a anime or movie Same as discussing about wind. Try to discuss why Naruto is a male, not a female Write emails to the writer of Naruto saga, and ask him why he did what he did So silly..

In case it wasn't painfully obvious, I was using sarcasm there. If you had read my full post, I defended Tobirama multiple times by saying what you just said.

And hey, I'll never understand why some people take the time to participate in something they claim not to like or not understand. I do it because it's fun to discuss (without the toxicity of others) and others too like to discuss characters. To each their own, I say. If you don't like, then feel free not to participate.

I personally like him as Hokage more than others, because of his leadership skill and decisiveness, whereas Hashirama was too kind and too soft, which led it to downfall of Konoha.

If Tobirama lived long enough, I believe Konoha military strength would be as good as Kumo.

I actually do as well, and can say he is my favorite hokage. But where Hashirama is rather sofrhearted, Tobirama is too hard on the uchiha; pushing them to the brink of starting another war. Hiruzen is the one who brought balance at last but the damage done to the uchiha was irreversible.