User blog comment:Berserkchart486/Chakra Levels!/@comment-25152698-20151006111929/@comment-4869113-20151006201520

You're equating Chakra reserves to power, when they aren't the same. Tsunade, undoubtedly, is a better shinobi. She has more experience compared to some fifteen year old Kid. That much is true, but when I say she hasn't shown the same feats as Kimimaro, I mean that. Gaara simply being a jinchuriki bestows him with unsurpassable reserves; it's why he is able to use his sand even after the removal of Shukaku. He HAS shukaku's immense stamina and techniques. If he didn't, his reserves would be severely less now than they were before. The fact that Kimmimaro could leave him without any chakra, but still have the ability to attack with a ninjutsu-technique, is a feat on its own.

I'm not saying Tsunade is weaker; I'm simply saying that I think his chakra reserves are bigger.

"He was suggested to be Kage-level, as Kabuto once commented that had Kimimaro not fallen ill, the assassination of the Third Hokage would have gone smoothly, and Orochimaru would not have been crippled."

I'll leave that quote there so you can rethink your previous statement about him wounding Gaara or not.