One cited fightNaruto · ch. 601
Does this result move the ranking?

Confirms the ladder

The higher-ranked entity beat the lower-ranked one. Record and ladder agree.

Madara Uchiha vs Tsunade Senju

The winnerMadara UchihaNaruto · rank 4
7 places
BeatenTsunade SenjuNaruto · rank 11

Fourth over eleventh, and the size of the gap is the least surprising part. Tsunade fought as one of five and the ending happened out of view, so this is a group losing rather than a duel the ladder can line up head to head. It still fits the placings: a fighter whose method is outlasting damage ran out of the means to keep doing it. The record would only strain the ranking had she been alone and won, and nothing near that happened.

The connecting record

statedNaruto · ch. 601

Madara Uchiha beat Tsunade Senju in Naruto.

Decided off the page, by a Madara still reanimated but free of Kabuto's control. The Kage are found near death and Tsunade cut in two once he has moved on to the main battlefield.

What each of them is ranked on

The winner · Madara Uchiha · rank 4

shippuden

Shippudencomicanimation

Five Kage at once, then the allied army, then the two protagonists together — the war arc keeps escalating what it puts in front of him and he keeps going through it. The only reason he is not first is that he is removed from the story by betrayal rather than by any of it, which is a statement about Kaguya and not about the people who could not stop him.

  • shownNaruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc

    Fights the assembled Five Kage simultaneously and defeats them. — 2013

  • shownNaruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc

    Becomes the Ten-Tails jinchuriki and engages the allied forces. — 2014

Madara Uchiha on the Naruto ladder

Beaten · Tsunade Senju · rank 11

The Fifth Hokage — shippuden

Part IShippudencomicanimation

The same 35 as Orochimaru and an entirely different shape of career, which is the most useful comparison the scorecard accidentally sets up. Her seal converts stored effort into recovery fast enough that ordinary damage stops being a limit, and she holds a village together through an invasion that removes most of its leadership. Equal numbers, opposite records, and the number does not distinguish them.

  • statedNaruto Databook 3 · 2008

    Rated 35 of a possible 40, level with Orochimaru.

  • shownNaruto · Pain's Assault arc

    Sustains a village-wide barrier and healing effort until collapse. — 2009

Tsunade Senju on the Naruto ladder

What this does not settle

One fight in one work. It is the only result the record gives between these two, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.

The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.

Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.

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