Whitebeard vs. Madara

Thanks to my opponent for his impressive argument!I will be utilizing this round to mirror my opponent by highlighting Madara's strengths and showing how they could be used to help defeat Whitebeard. C1) ChakraMadara's chakra is incredibly strong, allowing him to use extremely powerful jutsus for extended periods of time without any physical tiring. This ensures that Madara's physical stamina is at least as much as that of Whitebeard's, especially given the fact that Whitebeard is getting old and has been displaying signs of aging [1].Whitebeard would probably get tired during the battle before Madara would.Additionally, Madara's high levels of chakra give him abilities that are much like haki.Being a sensor type, he can detect a person's identity, abilities, and next move (by noticing changes in their chakra). This ability is much like Observation Haki and would effectively cancel out any advantage Whitebeard may have had in terms of reflexes.Also, his chakra is so strong, that he can intimidate many reasonably strong opponents into fleeing simply by making eye contact with them [2]. This ability is similar to Conqueror's Haki, and, again, would cancel out any potential advantage Whitebeard may have had in that respect.Thanks to Madara's chakra, Whitebeard's haki would pose a very minimal threat to Madara (see C3 for more).C2) Martial ArtsMadara is very gifted in Taijutsu, being able to quickly and effectively defeat hundreds of relatively powerful enemies without displaying even the least bit of fatigue [3]. Madara's skill level in Taijutsu also displays his incredible speed an agility, which are two traits that Whitebeard has never displayed throughout any of his fights.Madara could easily outpace and outmaneuver Whitebeard using this tremendous disparity in speed and agility. Also, Madara is quite gifted in using his gunbai (mace + shield) and kunai (ninja stars), being able to inflict significant damage on demons as strong as the Ten-Tails with them [4]. His weapons could surely inflict a good amount of damage on Whitebeard as well. C3) JUTSUMadara has such a huge variety of jutsu, that it is literally impossible to name and describe each of them in the space provided here [1]. I will only be able to give a brief over view of the powers granted to him by each major type of jutsu he uses.-- Elemental Jutsu: Madara is capable of doing powerful jutsu involving each of the five elements (water, fire, wind, lightning, earth), each of which Whitebeard would be susceptible to, especially water.-- Casting Illusions (Genjutsu): Whitebeard does not have any powers suggesting that he would be immune to illusions; there is a very good chance that he can be tricked by them-- Levitation: this would give Madara a degree of mobility that would be highly advantageous, especially against a large, not-too-fast opponent such as Whitebeard-- Creating Barriers: could be used to slam into Whitebeard, issuing considerable damage.-- Self-Cloning: Madara's wood clones each match his individual strength, and he can produce several of them at a time [5]; this would almost certainly be far too much for Whitebeard to handle, with all of them attacking from all directions and eventually overwhelming him.SharinganThe major powers of the normal Sharingan include being able to copy/predict an opponent's attacks as well as control/summon tailed beasts. The latter is against the rules of this debate, and as, such, should not be considered. However, the former could be seen as a counter to Whitebeard's Observation Haki. In combination with Madara's sensing abilities, he almost surely has a greater capacity to predict and avoid attacks than Whitebeard does.However, Madara does not just have a normal Sharingan... he has a Mangekyou Sharingan, which gives him 3 additional powers:--Susanoo: this is an insanely powerful armor (i.e. magical battle suit) that is capable of withstanding even some of the most powerful attacks known in the Naruto universe, such as the Bijuu Bomb [6]. It could possibly even withstand the effects of one of Whitebeard's earth quakes. Whitebear's Armament Haki pales in comparison to the Susanoo.--Amaterasu: these severely damaging flames are not only inextinguishable, but they are also known to follow around the target based on the will of the user, thus being virtually unavoidable, as well. --Tsukuyomi: Whitebeard does not have any way to avoid being affected by a genjutsu as powerful as the TsukuyomiRennigan- a dojutsu which grants Madara some very powerful attacks including the ability to produce attractive and repulsive forces strong enough to destroy entire cities, absorbing chakra attacks, mind-reading, and summoning demons.Needless to say, such a large variety of powerful Jutsus could be used one after the other in a strategic manner (see C6) to completely and utterly destroy Whitebeard, not even giving him a chance to fight back. C5) RegenerationThis is an ability of Madara's that undoubtedly would give him a huge advantage, perhaps even being the primary reason that Whitebeard would lose a battle with Madara.Due to the integration of the First Hokage's cells into Madara's body, Madara is able to use his amazing medical jutsu skills and regenerate from very damaging attacks within seconds [7].This means that even if he were make a mistake and take a quake bubble to the face or something, he could regenerate and easily recover from such a blow, proceeding as if it had never happened.C6) IntelligenceMadara its known to be extremely intelligent and very strategic, both long-term (as shown by his crafting of the whole Obition-Akatsuki-Infinite Tsuyukomi plan) and short-term (as shown by his clever battle field manipulation of Hashirama during their battle [8] ).Of course, Whitebeard is no idiot, but he is not exactly known for having an exceptional level of intelligence, either, whereas Madara is; there is a good chance that Madara could create a plan or strategy of some sort to manipulate Whitebeard, perhaps taking advantage of the small lakes present on the battlefield somehow.CONCLUSIONIt has been proven that...--Madara definitely has a higher level of intelligence, physical stamina, speed, agility, and reflexes than Whitebeard does--Madara's chakra levels, regeneration, and dojutsu effectively counter Whitebeard's major advantages (i.e. haki, devil fruit, brute strength).--Madara has an enormous variety of powerful jutsu that could be used in a strategic manner to bombard Whitebeard to death, even with his endurance for injuries.Thus, we draw the logical conclusion that Madara would win in a battle against Whitebeard.SOURCESMuch of my information came from Uchiha Madara's entry on Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com...). This is a adequately reliable source, as nearly every single tidbit of information has an internal citation referencing a specific part of a manga chapter or anime episode, and is constantly being reviewed by Naruto fans, with misinformation promptly being deleted by more serious fans.Aside from that, I did cite a couple of manga pages to back-up some of my more more specific claims:[1] http://www.onepiecebay.net...[2] http://narutobase.net...[3] http://narutobase.net...[4] http://narutobase.net...[5] http://narutobase.net...[6] http://narutobase.net...[7] http://narutobase.net...[8] http://narutobase.net... I hand the debate back over to my opponent and eagerly await his next argument :D