Is the Third Hokage weak?

[Vagabond]

kinda off topic but.. can someone tell me if this is right.

3rd was group leader to Jiraiya, Oro, and the blonde girl.
Jiraiya was group leader to the 4th
and the 4th was Kakashi's group leader.

Is that right?

[raijin]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (VagabondLBD @ Dec 22 2003, 11:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> kinda off topic but.. can someone tell me if this is right.

3rd was group leader to Jiraiya, Oro, and the blonde girl.
Jiraiya was group leader to the 4th
and the 4th was Kakashi&#39;s group leader.

Is that right? </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
You are correct.

[DB_Hunter]

Maaaaaan 3rd is old lol.

[Guest]

I only believe my eyes. And I wanna see 4th kick serious deep butt. Make them feel old man&#33;&#33;

[Evil Eyes]

I don&#39;t *think* he&#39;s weak. I *believe* that he&#39;s extremely powerful despite his very very old age. The thing is that although he&#39;s still strong now, he&#39;s no way near as powerful as he was in his prime. He was godlike in his prime, the greatest shinobi ever.

[Uchiha-Itachi]

The Hokage was the strongest ninja of konoha at the moment he was chosen... i bet he isnt the strongest anymore now...

[Baka-chan]

there is no doubt in my mind that he&#39;s not incredibly strong. he is a hokage, after all i&#39;m sure he kicks some serious ass

[Thermonuclear]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Orochimaru, there is noone in Konoha who can fight him equally, not even I.
-The 3rd</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

The last part was a lie

[DB_Hunter]

Well we don&#39;t know that yet for sure.

[Vagabond]

Alright, we already know that the strongest shinobi who resides in Konoha is Hokage. So I would assume that the 3rd is still the strongest in Konoha because if he wasn&#39;t then they would apoint a new Hokage. It would make sense that when the 4th was hokage the 3rd was retired and when the 4th died someone had to step up and become hokage. Since the 3rd was the strongest shinobi in konoha he became hokage again.

Also i don&#39;t want people to think i&#39;m saying the 3rd is stronger than oro or jiraiya. Im just saying he is probably the strongest shinobi in konoha. Remember Jiraya and Oro don&#39;t really live in Konoha.

I dont know if that made any sense

[DB_Hunter]

Makes sense.... though maybe the 3rd/4th change happened because the 4th was clearly more powerful than the 3rd... right now if someone is stronger it probably isn&#39;t by much so no point having a contest or whatever to decide who should be Hokage.

[DB_Hunter]

I get a feeling that it won&#39;t be too long before we see 3rd Hokage bust out with a few killer Jutsu&#39;s and show who&#39;s da main shinobi around here.

[itsgalf]

Hokage is to Naruto as Yoda is to Starwars

[Sigure]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DB_Hunter @ Dec 21 2003, 08:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> You mean the 4th was the strongest of all and the 3rd was the professor? </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I know this isn&#39;t really related, but doesn&#39;t that make Jiraiyi stronger than the 3rd since Jiraiyi was the sensei of the 4th...and the 4th is &quot;stronger&quot; than the 3rd?

[DB_Hunter]

Not necessarily, since Jiraiya would have been 4th&#39;s Sensei when he was just a Genin... and when he became a Chunnin or a Jounin the 4th moved on.

[Sigure]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DB_Hunter @ Dec 22 2003, 09:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Not necessarily, since Jiraiya would have been 4th&#39;s Sensei when he was just a Genin... and when he became a Chunnin or a Jounin the 4th moved on. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
That can&#39;t be Jiraiya had to be a jounin or at least chunnin to be the sensei of the 4th...you could look at the picture of Jiraiya with the 4th (as a kid) in narutoguide.com...somewhere in their

[DB_Hunter]

No no I mean when the 4th was just a Genin..... Jiraiya could have been a Jounin then and have been his Sensei.