Gaara is still relatively inexperienced in BoS and Deidara has the intelligence to pull it off.ĭeidara is hurt by the lack of KI more as his jutsu aren't optimized for capturing victims a live, while Gaara at least has coffin-sealing techniques. And we saw how with more clay Deidara could commander two birds at the same time, such as what he did after capturing the Isobu. Deidara was able to dupe Naruto/Sharingan Kakashi and Sharingan Sasuke with his Bunshin feints, so he only really needs to swap out with a clay clone/bird, then flank above Gaara with his original. With more clay he doesn't have to play it so conservatively and safe.Ī desert worth of normal sand is what blocked C3 not his standard gourd sand. Gaara may have gotten faster at grinding out sand but Deidara is also faster than Sick Base Kimimaro and he still wouldn't quite have the level of sand he summoned in the manga without being in a desert.īecause Deidara was low on clay he had to manage his resources carefully, and that's why he waited for the precise moment to use C3, when he had a plan in place to make the best use of his remaining clay against Gaara and to KO him efficiently. Against Kimimaro Gaara was vulnerable for several clashes and only built up a sizeable amount of sand after CS1 Kimimaro broke his sand coffin.ĭeidara can clap Gaara with C3 in that time. MAYBE Hidan isn’t, but everyone else isīut Deidara would have to get around that sand as well regardless, as even if it's not used for the village Gaara can still maneuver it to protect himself or use it for the offense.
Kakashi even in P1 was a peer to Kabuto, who while provably weaker then blood phobia Tsunade was still no more then a tier behind her, and she was a kage candidate as well. Yes he was not going all out but that’s still pretty good especially with her showing how her paper can also outspeed Obito’s self warpĪsuma admitted Hidan was > him and Asuma is a top jounin, peer to Kakashi.
If not she was still holding her own against Obito even before her paper ocean came into play. Konan you can say is a little ambiguous if you really try but she did best Sasori if you consider that fight canon. Orochimaru was a kage candidate even before he was an akatsuki member, all of the sannin were already kage level long before he joined the organization He’s also stated to be strong enough to be paired with Itachi, and the dude by feats slam dunks on named kage like Mei Kisame taking on Bee even with matchup advantage shows he’s kage level. Sasori defeated the third Kazekage who was a kage, don’t need to prove much hereĭeidara already beat a kage and also nearly killed Hebi Sasuke who also is definitely kage level already Jman and Tsunade considered Kakashi kage level right after the IA, and Kakazu was very clearly above him. Have to be very fucking dishonest to hold that belief Really love to know where this whole "most akatsuki arent Kage level" comes from tho Kisame RAGDOLLED V2 and V1 Bee when Base/V1 Bee was getting the better of Taka, who are all high Jonin to Kage level fighters including Sasuke Lol at Obito not being Kage level.Not even gonna entertain thatĭeidara has the firepower to nuke an entire village instantly, seemingly oneshotted a fucking Biju, and threw hands with Hebi Sasuke who is Sannin/well into Kage level Pain bodied Kages or Kage level folk his entire life Itachi dunked on multiple higher level Kage people such as Orochimaru even before Itachi had like any of his powers or skills developed at fucking 13 Sasori literally murked a Kage, and arguably the strongest one in Sunas history Kakuzu, likely the weakest member aside from the aforementioned 2, was head and shoulders above IA Kakashi who had intel on kakuzu AND with backup, Kakashi who was a top level Jonin solo if not a low Kage already Literally every member of Akatsuki bar like White Zetsu and Hidan are very clearly fucking Kage level