EDO-TENSEI MADARA VS EDO-TENSEI HASHIRAMA "Eternal Rivalry"

EDO MADARA VS EDO HASHIRAMA

Eternal rivalry continues even though they are dead.
When Edo Madara first introduced to audience, it was so breath-taking that all thought that the ultimate villain, the mastermind behind all this caos was finally taking the control and would show what a real fight was like. The legend finally would be seen as fighting. His entrance made the expectations vey high. His battle against shinobi army was nothing. They did not make a challange. Even his fight against five Kage were nothing more than a child's play for him.

Hashirama was summoned with edo tensei technique second time by Orochimaru to give some answers to Sasuke that he desperately needed to hear. When he was first summoned with his brother, Tobirama by Orochimaru against Sarutobi, 3rd Hokage could take him and his brother even though it costed his life. However, edo tensei technique was not that perfect and Orochimaru's real aim was to show Sarutobi  how the feeling of fighting against a Sensei (teacher) is. That' why those summonings were too weak for a challenge and their power level was too low and they were able to be sealed away by 3rd Hokage. In this fight situation is different and Hashirama is close to his original power.

According to Kabuto, Madara is much stronger than his glory days. He has rinnegan, the ultimate eye and  Hashirama's cells. His power resembles to Rikudou Sennin's as he had both Uchiha and Senju powers. He can use wood techniques as Hashirama can. However, Hashirama was resurrected near his power that means that he is  not as strong as he used to be.

The battle between two beasts began with small power-ups as Susanoo(not the perfect one) vs Wood Style Dragon. Hashirama seemed that he had the upper hand, because of that reason Madara evolved his Susano'o to Perfect Susano'o and Hashirama answered it with his Wood Style Golem. After this point, there is a big gap and we do not know what happened during the battle. Did Madara use rinnegan techniques or wood style technique? Maybe releasing Susano'o prevented him from using rinnegan techniques or if he used rinnegan, the opening which was caused by the teacnique would provide Hashirama an advantage for a counterattack. If he used wooden style techniques, how did Hashirama encounter the technique? Maybe it is not possible to use Hashirama's techniques against him. Because we know that, Orochimaru explained that Hashirama could undo Orochimaru's edo tensei technique whenever he wanted as he has Hashirama's cells. Same thing goes for Madara, too. After Madara stole Hashirama's senjutsu and became invincible, Hashirama said to Sasuke that he had a technique that could bind Madara's senjutsu chakra but Sasuke did not accept it. In my opinion, these are not that important because at the last scene we saw that  Edo Hashirama caught Edo Madara with his wood dragon technique which was absorbing Madara's chakra and prevented Madara from both infusing chakra and using his ninjutsu absorbing rinnegan technique. Madara was trapped by Hashirama and Naruto threw his rasenshuriken to destroy Madara but rasenshuriken was not powerful enough to destroy Madara. It destroyed only Hashirama's dragons. Madara freed himself but Hashirama used his Sage Art: Gracious Deity Gates technique and immobilized him again.

That shows that even Madara with all the modifications was not a match for Hashirama. However,  as Hashirama did not have a sealing technique, he waited the sealing corps. However, when Sai arrived, it was too late. Black zetsu forced Obito to use rinnetensei technique. Madara fully resurrected and he became invincible.