- Might Guy
- Hundreds of Thousands of Hours Training in Taijutsu, mastering the Inner gates and obtaining a Summoning Contract.
- Experiance in War, having survived the Third war and graduated rather early.
- Wears weights and trains every second of every day, making him incredibly fast both on his own and with the use of the Gates.
- Strong enough, while nearly thirty, to decimate Madara's body while under the influence of the Ten Tails
Kakashi-
-Hundreds of thousands of Hours of training in a variety of feilds.
- Created his own Jutsu and Summoning contract.
-Learned a Thousand Jutsu and could use all of them to great affect
-Survived the Third war and excelled, graduating early and become jonin at thirteen
-Joined ANBU and thrived.
- Has a sharingan and excels with it better then nearly any Uchiha, and even posseses a Mangekyo
-Jiraiya
-47 YEARS OF EXPERIANCE AS A NINJA! Countless hours of training as a ninja
-Survived and thrived in two ninja wars
- Incredible chakra and jutsu repitoire.
- Toad contract
-Incredibly powerful body.
-Sage Mode!
Sakura
- Three years training under Tsunade to become an incredibley gifted Medic and Taijutsu expert
- Monsterous strength, both naturally ( to a lesser degree) and with Chakra.
-Flawless chakra control strrengthend through incredible training
- Incredible intelligent and knowledgable both naturally and with the training of Tsunade
- Masterful Medic on par with Tsuande
- Unparalled skills in evasion
- Skilled in poisoning.
- Skilled in Traps
-Not supposed to be a front line fighter and yet does pretty damn well at it
-Master the Yin Seal of Tsunade
- Slug Summoner
- Put in the willing effort to herself, rising above her weak self into an incredibley powerul and talented Kunoichi
Sasuke
- Trained to at least chunin level before he graduated, showcasing elemental jutsu, high taijutsu and weapon skills.
- Took a while to master tree climbing but once he did he was able to use it to fight Haku ( though not successfully)
- Sharingan
- Adapted Lee's style after one encounter, creating a solid move.
- Drastically increased his Taijutsu after a month of training and learned Chidori to great effect.
- Gained great control over both parts of the Cursed Seal
-Actually did something about his goals and hurried to Orochimaru, showcasing determination and a willingness to achieve his goals.
- After three years he became Kage level, showcasing
- Incredible skills with a blade
-Control over Fire Jutsu
- Modifying the Chidori to create a vareity of other very useful jutsus
- Drastically increased Speed, Strength and Taijutsu abilites.
- Near immunity to Genjutsu
-Control over the Orochimaru's abilities
- Drastically increase Tactical abilites.
- The Hawk Contract and Snake Contracts
- Understanding of Seals
- Eventually he gained the Mangekyo and became reliant on it, but still it was powerful and was used to augament his powers that were already there. Same with the Enternal.
- Was given the the Rinnegan by the Sage, kind of annoying but still served more as a tool to go with his power instead of totally relying on it.
Rock Lee-
- Thousands of Hours training to overcome his inability to use Chakra, becoming a taijutsu master as a genin
- Use of the inner gates eventually reaching 6 once he is in the war.
- By the war he was one of the strongest people ever
- Incredible and completely earned Speeds and strength born of hard training and weights.
- Use of Weapons rivaling a lot of ninjas ( Not anywhere near Tentens...)
- Naruto
- Terrible Taijutsu
- Didn't now what Chakra was or even called, no understanding of literally anything
- Somehow, magically, mastered the Shadow clone jutsu in a few hours despite no skill in anything else bar admiteedly great stealth and prank skills.
- Ridicoulusy high levels of Chakra and Stamina and the Kyuubi's powers.
- Awful Throwing skills
- No respect, very crude behavior.
- Magical ability to earn respect where never deserved ( Or at least dramatized in a lot of cases)
- Terrible chakra control
- Toad contract which comes in handy like ones or twice in the entire first series ( Toads are assholes and Gamatatsu should be killed off...)
- Literally wins by either magically turning his enemies hearts or by getting his ass beaten then healing and getting in a lucky hit at the end.
- Somehow teaches himself the Rasengan with poor instruction, another random bout of intelligence that just doesn't add up to the charecters development. Though the Rasengan becomes practically useless afterwards, with Naruto's poor speed and general stupidity making it effortless to dodge for most people and yet it magically becomes the answer to all of Naruto's prayers.
- Somehow, through kyuubi's powers, is able to match Sasuke despite Sasuke being a million times better in every ounce of Shinobi skills.
- After his training with Jiraiya all he gets is slightly better taijutsu, a big Rasengan and the ability to use Those Spring trap Kunai things which he uses like once...
- Spends literally hundreds of years, via clones, to create one Jutsu that he can't he use without hurting himself. Again getting the last hit in Kakazu...
- Magically masters Sage mode in Weeks ( with Clones), making him somehow stronger then Jiraiya...
- Along side Sage mode he magically becomes incredible powerful with Frog Taijutsu again unlike everyone who actually earned their powerrs...
- Steals Kurama's power, becomes Kage level with it... again not his own strength, just stealing someone elses.
- Handed tailed beast power for being Nice, not for training, skill or literally anything
- Handed power from the Sage, suddenly becomes stronger then Guy with all Gates...
- Somehow equal to Sasuke who was miles ahead of Naruto and given the same boost by the Sage...
You see, Naruto is not equal to anyone or above. His power comes from others to the point of reliance and duexmachina. Yes, Sasuke gets handed power but unlike Naruto he was powerful without it. Kage level at 16, unlike Naruto who was maybe low jonin level on his own. Everyone I just listed is considered weaker then Naruto and this bugs me, mostly because they all earned their power through blood, sweat and tears and Naruto was handed it for being nice or for his crappy childhood. He doesn't apply himself, attempt to reach his goals just scream about them, crying about Sasuke and all of that bullshit.
They all took years to gain power ( not counting Sasuke's bloodline stuff which yes became annoying but easier to swallow) while Naruto was handed his as the plot demanded. His charecter had almost no growth in terms of power or personality.
Yes, I know Boruto portrays him as being Kage level... that being said how? We never see it happening, just boom now he is powerful on his own, you know despite the natural gifts everyone gives him...
The Show fell into the trap of trying to make us pity this poor boy but then watch as the world throws up all of it's power on him. Honestly as sad as his childhood was at times, especially now that it is being cleared up that is was a little sadder then it initially showcased, it doesn't mean he should be piled up with gifts and the world kissing his ass. He does not earn or deserve any of it, he never did anything for most of it.
Show him learning Ninjutsu, making his own style. Show him learning a weapon and seals, working his crappy speed and taijutsu... something interesting instead of plot pointed growth...