Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-23758952-20130927015655/@comment-4867780-20140924211743

Madara is the second greatest genius of ninja history, his Sharingan allows him to perfectly replicate any technique he sees, and he developped the already widely feared Uchiha eyes techniques far beyond anyone else. So he's bound to possess a whole arsenal of very powerful and diversified abilities. At that's before his Sharingan evolved into Rinnegan...

It is Hashirama that is more surprising, since he doesn't possess any particular abilities, yet his chackra reserves and ninja arts talent alone were enough to single-handedly best Madara every single time, even with all his eyes powers and the support of Kyubi in Susanoo armor...

When you think about it, Hashirama is much more sue-like than Madara.