Two important things you left out were that Kakashi’s goal was not to kill Deidara what he was trying to do then was protect Naruto who was chasing after Gaara’s dead body and then get back to Sakura and Chiyo. Killing Deidara was not his intention and like most of the leaf ninjas Kakashi is pretty laid back more so than anyone else in the village besides Shikamaru ofcourse, so if they can win or finish a battle without having to go too far or push themselves then that is what they would try to do.
About Deidara defeating Gaara, Gaara should have and would have won that battle if not for him having to save the sand village. Gaara was stronger than Deidara, he had a superior technique and he had a massive advantage. The reason he lost was because as Deidara said he did the typical Kage thing and sacrificed himself to save the village.
Sasori v Deidara....... ha.
Minato was the youngest Hokage ever not the third and although the third was regarded as the strongest that was strictly because of the fact that he knew so many jutsus. Secondly the fourth like I said in previous posts would have to have been the strongest strictly because of the plot and he was said to be the greatest ninja the village ever produced so I don't see how Sarutobi could have been better than him. Plus I never heard of Sarutobi having any original jutsu's and the strongest jutsus we've seen thus far Hiraishin, Shiki Fujin and Rasengan were the fourth's original techniques thus he was stronger than Sarutobi just by the level of his techniques alone.
As for your list, this is what mine would look like although there are far too many ninjas to mention them all but the major ones would be:
1. Madara, major villain in the story thus most likely stronger than almost everyone else, genius founder of the Uchiha clan also he supposedly summoned the Kyuubi.
2. Shodai, founder of the leaf village, first hokage, supposedly defeated Madara
3. Minato, greatest ninja the village ever produced, youngest hokage, creator of the strongest jutsus, defeated Kyuubi.
4. Jiraiya, Oro, Itachi. I put them before the third because the rule is in Naruto that the next generation always surpasses the previous ones and I believe Oro and Jiraiya most definitely surpassed their teacher. Oro is an obvious mad genius and although people don't view Jiraiya as one he most certainly was. Itachi is there because he is an obvious genius, he is incredibly strong and he did wipe out the most gifted clan in leaf history including his father who I assume was also considered a great "genius." I didn't want to put him in front of Jiraiya since I don't think he was "stronger" than Jiraiya although I would consider him more of a genius than Jiraiya was. Itachi did defeat Oro something Jiraiya was unable to do yet I don't think Jiraiya would lose to Itachi but based solely on "genius" it would be Itachi, Oro, then Jiraiya but I'm putting them on the same level.
5. Sarutobi. He was trained by the Hokages and taught the Sannin. Old man was great, clearly he had to be a genius just to learn every technique in the village, he couldn’t master them all ofcourse but still to know all of them damn.
6. Sasuke, not a semi genius a true genius who already defeated one of the people I put above him namely Oro and is destined to defeat Itachi. I also put him in this spot because by rule the next generation is supposed to surpass the previous one and Sasuke has clearly surpassed this next person. In case anyone was wondering I would put Tsunade in the five spot as well behind Sasuke but I don't care to talk about her.
7. Next up we have Kakashi, son of the genius White Fang, student of the fourth hokage, teacher of team seven, leaf's number one ninja and clearly a gifted ninja.
Then we have Shikaku and Shikamaru Nara although strength wise I'm not sure where they would rank but they are exceptionally intelligent and fulfill the role of the more traditional genius. Then we have Neji and the Hyuuga clan followed by the rest of the riff-raff.
- Now that is what you would call a long post.
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