Talk:Gaara VS Toph/@comment-2092177-20150706195916/@comment-96.255.112.88-20150716135508

The only character there that should have won but didn't was Gaara. I would tell you to read my earlier comments, but it appears that they along with some of my other posts have been deleted. Thats never happened to me before.

What argument is this guy making? Gaara never takes the offensive in a fight? Has this guy never read a chapter or watched a fight scene with Gaara in it? I guess Gaara taking the offensive in his fight with Rock Lee didn't happen. Or the fact that when Gaara fought Kimimaro, Kimimaro explicitly stated that Gaara's attacks and defenses are as one.  I could go on and list Gaara's other fights that prove this ridiculous argument wrong, but the manga does it for me.

That still doesn't address the massive gap in stats between both Gaara and Toph. If you don't know what either character is capable of, Gaara outclasses Toph in every stat/category possible. So even if what he is saying is true (that Gaara NEVER takes the offensive in a fight) Toph still gets screwed over with her poor durability, inability to touch Gaara without a substitution jutsu ruining everything, lack of sand (or earth) manipulating feats that could compare to Gaara's, and at best peak human reactions. And lastly, Gaara's sand CAN move FTE.