Naruto Power Scaling Trumps One Piece: Gear 5 Luffy Can't Tank Sasuke's Strongest Six Paths Jutsu

If your gut says there is no universe where Gear 5 Luffy gets smoked by Sasuke Uchiha, buckle up. Once Naruto starts handing out literal god perks in its final arcs, this matchup stops being cute and turns into a scale problem.

Where Sasuke is by the end of Shippuden

This isn't early-days, revenge-obsessed Sasuke. We're talking about the Six Paths version: Hagoromo Otsutsuki himself flips the upgrade switch, Sasuke awakens the tomoe Rinnegan, taps Six Paths chakra, and rolls out a Perfect Susanoo that operates at kaiju scale. That armored avatar tanks hits that shredded battlefields, trades shots in fights on Kaguya's level, and stands up to Naruto's Six Paths Rasenshuriken without folding. It shields, it swings, it can act like a towering bodyguard, and when Sasuke dials it up, it channels his nastiest finisher.

"Six Paths Sasuke isn't a power-up. He's a walking hard reset."

Why Luffy's best tricks don't move this mountain

One Piece at its wildest is still built on physical limits: Haki, Devil Fruits, and big destructive moments. Think Marineford, Kaido's dragon blasts, the recent God Valley flashback — massive, sure, but still mortal. Naruto's endgame tosses that scale out the window and brings in chakra deities, pocket dimensions, and reality-warping attacks. Gear 5 can punch, bend, and slap physics all day; a Susanoo forged from Six Paths chakra is playing a different sport.

Sasuke's late-game toolkit vs. Luffy

• Indra's Arrow: Sasuke's ultimate lightning shot, juiced by the power of all nine Tailed Beasts. Naruto had to answer it with his own maximum move. Stack that against Luffy's Bajrang Gun and you can already feel the gap.
• Amaterasu: The black flames that don't quit. Elasticity doesn't help, scales and armor don't matter, and nobody in One Piece has a switch that says "stop burning now."
• Dimension-warping weapons: This is where the series gets extra nerdy. The finale even gave us Susanoo shuriken that warp anything they touch into another dimension — that specific trick came from Kakashi's one-time power-up, not Sasuke's. But the takeaway stands: late-stage Naruto can erase you from the arena in a way Haki and Devil Fruits don't counter.

The mismatch, in plain terms

Sasuke's Susanoo is built to clash with beings who rewrite reality. It shrugs off battlefield-level attacks, fires a tailed-beast–tier nuke, and brings hax that ignores durability checks altogether. Luffy's Gear 5 chaos is incredible inside One Piece's ruleset — it just doesn't address a chakra fortress that has already gone toe-to-toe with godlike enemies. Even monsters like Kaido, legends like Whitebeard, or top dogs like Shanks haven't faced something as outright divine as this version of Susanoo.

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