Who Is The Stronger Sensei?

Kakashi Hatake, The Copy Ninja from Naruto, and Satoru Gojo, The Honored One from Jujutsu Kaisen. Two world-famous mentors from two of the biggest Shōnen series. Many comparisons have been made between these two: the original white-haired mentor from the Big 3 and the Almighty white-haired cocky mentor from the new generation of Shōnen. But beyond the similarities, many fans also debate about their power levels and how they compare against each other.

There are few things that Shōnen fans love more than pitting two famous characters against each other to figure out who will win in a fight or just who is the strongest of the two. Let’s explore and analyze the powers and abilities of both of these famous mentors to determine which is the strongest, The Copy Ninja from Naruto or The Honored One from Jujutsu Kaisen.

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Kakashi Hatake, The Copy Ninja of the Leaf

Extraordinary Skills and the Powerful Sharingan

Kakashi is the son of the Hidden Leaf’s White Fang, a disgraced war hero, and one of the most tragic examples of powerful ninjas in the Hidden Leaf. During his early years, he was trained by Minato Namikaze, who would eventually become the Fourth Hokage and the father of Naruto Uzumaki. During a fateful encounter, his friend and teammate Obito Uchiha falls in battle, and before his apparent death, he transplants his special eye, the Sharingan, to Kakashi. Kakashi combined his extraordinary skills as a prodigy and the power of his special ocular Jutsu to become an incredibly powerful young ninja, who would later be known as the Hidden Leaf’s Copy Ninja. Kakashi is said to have copied countless techniques from his enemies in battle, oftentimes using them better than the original users. After the Fourth Great Ninja War, Kakashi became the Sixth Hokage, a title he held for a short time until he passed it down to his student, Naruto Uzumaki.

Beyond Kakashi’s Sharingan, he is known for his unparalleled talent in every branch of ninja combat arts. Kakashi is an expert tactician as well as strong enough to battle a large group of enemies on his own. He is known for being able to use every nature type of Jutsu, thanks to his Sharingan. But his natural elemental type is lightning, which allowed him to develop an extremely powerful technique known as Chidori, a technique he would eventually teach his student Sasuke Uchiha, who perfected it and developed it further.

Kakashi’s Sharingan ability that he shares with his former friend Obito Uchiha is called Kamuy. By focusing on a singular target, he can distort space around it to disintegrate the target, sending it to another dimension. This ability allows Kakashi to deal with high-speed or remote targets during battle. This is perhaps his most powerful technique, as he effectively used it to deal with many extremely powerful enemies, such as Deidara, Pain, and Obito.

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But Kakashi’s most iconic ability is the Lightning Cutter, the refined form of his Chidori. With this technique, Kakashi envelops his hand in lightning before running at extreme speeds at his enemy until he strikes with his lightning-infused hand, effectively cutting everything in his path. The Lightning Cutter is Kakashi’s most used technique, which has allowed him to defeat countless powerful enemies.

Satoru Gojo, The Honored One

The Most Powerful Sorcerer of Today

Gojo is the mentor to Yuuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki. As well as the current holder of the Six Eyes. He is a special-grade sorcerer widely considered to be the strongest in the world. His mere presence in the sorcery world maintains the status quo and keeps enemies at bay. Gojo is extremely proud and arrogant because of his unsurmountable strength. He often values other people for their power as opposed to their character. He is also disrespectful and treats the higher-ups of jujutsu society with disdain.

Thanks to the Limitless and the Six Eyes he inherited, his control and amount of cursed energy are completely unparalleled. Gojo can perform extremely powerful cursed techniques while expending much less cursed energy than most other sorcerers. His Limitless allows him to control space and matter with cursed energy at an atomic level. By controlling lapse and reversal, he controls what he calls blue and red to perform extremely powerful cursed techniques. By combining blue and red, he’s able to use Hollow Purple, a technique that employs imaginary matter to create a powerful beam of cursed energy that can travel for many kilometers.

Gojo’s most well-known technique is his passive ability of Infinity, a perpetual barrier around his body that slows things down as they approach him. This makes the simple act of striking him almost impossible for most powerful enemies. During the Shibuya incident, he used Infinity to simply walk towards Hanami and crush her against the wall of the subway. Hanami was an incredibly powerful cursed spirit, and she was completely decimated by Gojo’s infinity.

Gojo also possesses superhuman strength and speed. He was able to kill 1000 transfigured humans in the span of five minutes while avoiding innocent civilians. Combining his superhuman physical strength and speed along with his expert martial arts, Gojo can defeat virtually any enemy through hand-to-hand combat alone. During his fight against Toji in his youth, because of his near-death experience, he was able to instinctively learn the reverse curse technique, allowing him to heal from his lethal wounds and, grow stronger than ever before, and effectively defeat the monstrous Toji.

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Gojo’s Domain Expansion is Unlimited Void. By immersing his enemy in an imaginary meta-space, he attacks their minds with unlimited stimuli and information, completely halting their reasoning and actions. Only Gojo and whoever he’s touching at the moment are immune to the effects of Unlimited Void. Gojo can expand his domain multiple times a day by using the reverse curse technique to heal his own brain to avoid fatigue. The only domain proven to be stronger than Gojo’s is Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine.

Who is the Strongest?

While Kakashi is, by all accounts, an extremely powerful ninja in the world of Naruto, his feats still lack in comparison to many of the higher echelon of warriors in this series. Characters like Pain, Madara, and even his two priced students, Naruto and Sasuke, are still several levels above Kakashi. He is undeniably an extraordinary fighter, but once he lost his Sharingan, he lost the best portion of the power that made him famous.

Gojo is often regarded as the strongest sorcerer in the world, someone that the enemies had to always plan around and outsmart, as they knew it was completely impossible for them to defeat him in honest combat. Gojo effortlessly defeats the cursed spirits that aid Kenjaku, and has to be sealed by an extremely powerful object, as none of Kenjaku’s group was able to even scratch him. The only character proven to be stronger than Gojo was the King of Curses, Sukuna, with his full power.

While Kakashi and Gojo may seem comparable at first, Gojo simply outweighs The Copy Ninja in every category. He is by all accounts the strongest character in Jujutsu Kaisen, while Kakashi has no title of the sort regarding the Naruto universe. Kakashi was defeated more than once and, during the Pain invasion arc, was effectively killed by the powerful Pain. An enemy that was later defeated by Naruto. Meanwhile, Gojo had to be sealed away by Kenjaku as not even he was able to defeat the powerful sorcerer.

Jujutsu Kaisen

Release Date

October 3, 2020

Directors

Sunghoo Park, Shōta Goshozono

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