Quote Originally Posted by Yukimura
If Kakashi is a front runner for Hokage after Tsunade that would imply he's one of the best warriors Konoha has to offer right now. I don't doubt his intelligence or leadership ability but his battle record is a bit spotty seeing as how we've never seen him walk away from a named opponent he defeated on his own two legs as far as I can remember.
My question is, where are all the Jounin level ninja's from the 4th's generation? Shouldn't there be people around the age of the fourth that were jounin when Kakashi was growing up? Older than him but younger than the Sannin, I know they've lost a lot of people with the wars and the Kyuubi attack, but having Kakashi be stronger than every surviving ninja of the Fourths generation (they should be all be in their mid to late 30's by now) seems a bit of a stretch to me. What could have happened to them all? Or did they al just suck except for Kakashi, the Fourth, the Sannin, and Kakashi's dad.
Well according to the databooks kakashi is the strongest jounin in the leaf.
And well kakashi not walking away from a fight, i think that is cause of his "low" stamina, meaning he won't go all out unless he needs to.
After playing around with zabuza, he gave him some backhands and made him is bitch :P.
He was also the only real defense against Itachi, if it wasn't for him, kurenai would've been so killed by that clone bomb.
I would say kakashi is better then Itachi, seeing how he was a super genuis even without sharingan, even graduating and becoming jounin etc.. earlier then itachi, Tsukiyomi just fucked him up bad, heck it might've killed any other jounin.

Then there is the whole deidara thing, well kakashi was once again the only defense they had against the bomb, and he did what he had to do to save everyone, at the expense of fucking himself up big time.
Naruto saving kakashi crew from kakuzu? I don't buy that, to me it felt like kakashi was fighting zabuza again, and we all know how he turned that around, he also still had his hax mangekyou as a trump card.

And I think the only really active and jounin from the 4th's generation is Anko, judging from her encounter with orochimaru, she is prolly fucking strong, where kakashi almost second guessed his reasoning, she was prepared to blow herself up to kill him, and judging from the games, once she does it, there is no escaping it, you just die.

/analysis :P