JAIF

The Databooks mean what the Databooks mean. A person with tier 5 speed is faster than a person with tier 4 speed. A person's overall ability with ninjutsu at tier 5 is greater than one's at tier 4. However, a person with tier 4 ninjutsu specializing in Fuuton and long-range jutsu could potentially beat a person with tier 5 ninjutsu specializing in Raiton and mid-to-short-range jutsu. Like I said, Naruto is not linear, no matter how you try to defend the opposite. I've already proven there is little, if anything, that Kimimaro could do once Kirigakure no Jutsu is set. I've already proven that Zabuza's cleaver can cut through Kimimaro's bones. I've already proven that Suirou no Jutsu will not be used without a Mizu Bunshin, because Zabuza has knowledge on Kimimaro's techniques since his clan originated from Zabuza's own village. I've already proven that Kimimaro lacks all forms of knowledge on Zabuza because he was abducted from the village as a child and had little or no contact with it whatsoever.

I already know full well that you cannot counter these points, because they are raw facts. However, if you feel like it, by all means try. The Databook stats in no way determine the outcome of a fight. Fact. By my facts and logically valid trails of thought, Zabuza defeats Kimimaro. You can go around arguing day and night about how Databook stats determine everything. Unless you somehow manage to disprove facts, or Kishimoto himself pops out of my computer screen, grabs me by the neck and starts shaking me yelling in my ear that Zabuza will be raped hardcore by Kimimaro, my opinion stands. You can make yourself into believing otherwise, and that changes nothing.

Hmpfh.

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