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Madara Uchiha, the strongest member of the Uchiha clan, the main villain of the latter portion ofNaruto. Ryomen Sukuna, The King of Curses, the main villain ofJujutsu Kaisen. Since the massive success ofJujutsu Kaisen, Shōnen fans have speculated and debated about who is the strongest between these two epic fighters. Both of these are men of legend, who were talked about for a large portion of the series.
The sole mention of their names is a topic of great importance. And once they showed their full power in the final arcs of the respective series, fans were treated to the big payoff for these two antagonists. Let’s analyze the strengths and abilities of each of these iconic villains to determine who is the strongest of the two.
Madara Uchiha, Power in a Name
The Strongest Member of Clan Uchiha
Madara is the most important and most powerful member of Clan Uchiha. He was close friends with Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage. Until this friendship falls through, and they battle for the sake of the Hidden Leaf Village. Madara ultimately fell to his friend, and that place and battle became legendary. Madara was later resurrected by the edo Tensei during the Fourth Great Ninja War.Cementing his place as the main villainofNaruto.
“While I walk towards my real dream, I’ll enjoy fighting you.”
Madara is an expert at taijutsu. His mastery at hand-to-hand combat is almost unparalleled. He’s able to battle numerous powerful opponents with only taijutsu. He has top-level ninjutsu. As an Uchiha, his proficiency at Ninjutsu is of the highest possible level. His fire-style jutsu is particularly strong; he can produce massive destructive flames that destroy anything in his path.His Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan lets him react faster and enhances his analysisof his enemies. He’s one of the few Uchiha to possess it. It has the same abilities as the Sharingan but at a much higher level. His special jutsu is Limbo, which creates invisible clones that can also attack and use the same abilities as Madara.
Rinnegan gives him all the Six Paths of Pain and more, he’s far stronger than Nagato, the most well-known user of the Rinnegan. Perfect Susano’O gives him an extremely powerful giant warrior with his own abilities. His Susano’O is stronger than the other Uchiha. Each of his clones can use Perfect Susano’O. He did this to battle the 5 Kage simultaneously. Tengai Shinsei is one of Madara’s most powerful Jutsu. It brings a meteor down onto the battlefield, he can easily decimate an Army with this jutsu. His use of Hashirama Cells lets him use Wood Style Jutsu, one of the most powerful nature types. Thanks to his massive Chaka reserves, he can use Wood Style on a large scale.
He has superhuman levels of stamina and can fight for days on end, as he did when he battled Hashirama. He is so skilled at hand-to-hand combat that he can fight an entire army on his own, as shown when he defeated an entire army during the Fourth Great Ninja War.As Ten Tails Jinchuuriki, all of his abilities are enhanced, as well as gaining the truth-seeking orbs, Sage Mode and fast healing. He survived Night Guy, the strongest taijutsu technique. He fought and defeated Naruto and Sasuke at once. He’s often named the second-strongest Shinobi in history, only surpassed byHashirama Senju, his best friend, and who was called the God of Shinobi.
Ryomen Sukuna, King of Curses
The Strongest Sorcerer in History
Ryomen Sukuna is the strongest sorcerer from 1000 years ago. During his prime, numerous top-class sorcerers did their best and gave their all to take him down, but they all fell to his might one after the other. Sukuna was a human sorcerer who became a monstrous legend, known as the King of Curses or the Disgraced One. After Yuji Itadori consumed one of his fingers, he became his host for a time until the King of Cursesincarnated into another body, regaining his full power.
“Stand proud. You are strong”
Sukuna is a master hand-to-hand fighter. His proficiency at Martial Arts and close quarters combat isonly rivaled by Satoru Gojo. Due to his unnatural nature, he possesses Immense strength that goes beyond any other sorcerer or special grade curse. This also gives him overwhelming speed, perfect reflexes and immense durability, which allows him to fight for a very extended period of time without showing any sign of exhaustion.
He has great tactical intellect which, paired with his physical prowess, makes him a virtually invincible foe. As the king of curses, he possesses top-level cursed energy capacity, allowing him to employ top-level cursed techniques and even expand his domain multiple times a day. His cursed energy manipulation magnifies his proficiency at cursed techniques, along with his high cursed energy output, he is an extremely skilled sorcerer, unlike any other.
He possesses Black Flash expertise, allowing him to employ this extremely difficult technique continuously to great effect. Shrine, as his main cursed technique, lets him slash at wide ranges, cutting through objects and space, as well as using destructive flames. Dismantle is an extremely powerful ranged slash. Thanks to Mahoraga’s adaptation to Limitless, Sukuna enhanced it to cut the world itself. Cleave is a powerful slash that adapts to its target. Sukuna must make physical contact with his target to use it. Spiderweb uses Cleave to slash the ground in the shape of a spiderweb. Divine Flame creates fire for long-range attacks in the form of an arrow.This fire exceeds Jogo’s, whose pyrokinetic powers are his defining trait.
Sukuna can use all ofMegumi’s Ten Shadows Techniques after incarnating into his body.He can summon and control Mahoraga, unlike Megumi. Sukuna can use Reverse Cursed Technique at the highest level, regenerating his body parts instantly. With Domain Amplification, Sukuna envelops his body in his own domain as an aura. Sukuna uses this to neutralize Gojo’s Limitless and is capable of making contact with him. Hollow Wicker Basket is an anti-Domain technique that erects a barrier to neutralize a Domain’s guaranteed hit factor. Sukuna’s Domain Expansion is Malevolent Shrine, a Buddhist Shrine decorated with Skulls. Everything inside its airspace is continuously and relentlessly slashed with Dismantle or Cleave.
Conclusion: Who is the Strongest?
Imaginary Demon Versus Ninja of Legend
This battle is extremely close due to the overwhelming world-shattering powers of the two antagonists. They both excel at both hand-to-hand combat and using powerful special techniques that allow them to fight large groups of enemies at once with ease. However, the sheer versatility of Sukuna gives him an edge as well as his feats during his prime, as he was completely undefeated by every high-level sorcerer of the era.Sukuna didn’t just battle and defeat the strongest sorcerer of the current times, but also defeated a large group of special grade sorcerers on his own. In this bout, the King of Curses stands victorious.
