Someone told me that in Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 2, the profiles section has spinning Kabuto cards for all the characters, and that Asuma apparently is REALLY good if you go by the stats alone. And by good, he meant REALLY good.

On a side note, Baki (The Sand Jounin teacher) is also ridiculously good and Hinata is the worst in terms of overall stats.

Though that could probably answer you guys' questions in terms of his abilities, if you could get a translation of that card.