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Old 2012-07-08, 05:56   Link #112
Hunter
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Originally Posted by james0246 View Post
One possible suggestion is that Orochimaru's control of the dead wasn't as strong, so the summoned souls could slightly disobey his orders (I.e. they would fight, but not at full power).

The most likely speculation, though, is that Orochimaru simply ordered the zombies to play around with Sarutobi.
The latter isn't even speculation, it's a fact apparent from when Orochimaru explained he was doing it to torture Sarutobi emotionally and was then confirmed in the Data book.
You can rationalize their strength (or lack there of) with two other things I think :
First the strongest state of Edo Tensei is when the deads are aware, in control of their actions and willing to fight. Oro (who might have been aware of the jutsu weakness) completely controled their bodies and erased their personality so that they couldn't possibly release themselves but in doing so made them little more than puppets. It wasn't Hashirama and his brother fighting, it was Orochimaru manipulating powerfull tools.
Secondly many forgot that the battlefield was severely limited to a single rooftop where they couldn't use over the scale (litteraly) jutsu. Take what Edo-Madara has done until now and remove all jutsu that can't fit within the barrier which confined them and suddenly you have no perfect Susanoo, no meteor, no deadly forest nor two dozens of Susanoo, etc.

Now of course the real answer is the fact that powerscaling has dramatically increased in the last ~450 chapters but taking into account the facts that the Senju brothers weren't meant to kill Sarutobi quickly, were only mindless machines and could only use close range ninjutsu make things a little less hard to swallow.

Last edited by Hunter; 2012-07-08 at 06:07.
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