Kakashi is the most underrated character in Naruto
1- in the Chunin exams when all the odds “forced” him to train Sasuke and leave Naruto everyone accused him of favoring Sasuke and not caring about Naruto ignoring all the logical reasons..
1- Sasuke was going to face the most dangerous opponent who was so thirsty to kill him (Gaara) so it was Kakashi's responsibility to teach him something so strong to defend himself with.
2- Sasuke was being chased by a creepy snake sanin and his gang trying to possess his body.
3- Sasuke had an uncontrollable curse mark that not only put him in more danger, it also drew him further into Orochimaru's trap that had to be observed, contained and needed a strong will and motive to be controlled.
4- Kakashi was the only one who can actually teach Sasuke inside the village since he is the only one with a Sharingan and lighting Chakra Nature affinity just like Sasuke.
5- and this is one of the most important reasons, it was Jiraiya's request to focus on Sasuke and leave Naruto to him as we've seen later on a flashback
6- Ebisu was a special Jounin, the 3rd Hokage considered him to be the best teacher and thus why he chose him to train his grandson but sadly he was always prejudged and was never given a chance to acually show what he can do as a teacher, so Kakashi didn't even abandon Naruto at all.
7- Kakashi went through a lot of trauma with his old team and he vowed to never let his new team to have the same fate as his old team so it was a top priority to him to save one of his team members from getting killed or kidnapped, it's like Kakashi's worst nightmare becoming reality all over again.
2- he was a very exceptional shinobi since he was very young (the youngest Genin ever at 5, the youngest Chunin ever at 6, the youngest Jounin at 9) and was already following his father's steps who Minato stated that he was stronger than the 3 Sannin without a Sharingan or any kind of Dojutsu and yet people keeps claiming that he is nothing without the Sharingan.
3- As I mentioned above while Kakashi was the youngest Genin ever at 5, Minato became Genin at 10 and Itachi at 7… and while Kakashi became Chunin at 6, Minato became Chunin at 11 and Itachi at 10 yet people claim that Itachi and Minato were smarter than him just because they had the top scores in the written part of the Chunin exam, the exam that he took when he was 5 years younger than Minato and 4 years younger than Itachi, give him that same exam when he is as old as them then we can talk and yet his score wasn't even far behind them.
4- he invents his own A-Rank Jutsu at the age of 9, people claims that he didn't and Indra did because of a filler episode that Indra used something similar to Chidori, ignoring every canon statement saying that it's Kakashi's original Jutsu
5- whenever he does something exceptional that proves how badass he is people claim that he copied it with the Sharingan:
he uses all 5 chakra natures, they say he copied it with the Sharingan even tho the Sharingan can't even copy Chakra Nature
He learns Rasengan before getting the Sharingan, they say he copied it with the Sharingan, HOW? how is he supposed to copy something with the Sharingan when he had no Sharingan?! And Rasengan can't even be copied with the Sharingan
He summons a perfect Susanoo that also can't be copied with the Sharingan, they say he copied sasuke's Susanoo with the Sharingan 🤦🏻♀️
He opens a gate that also can't be copied with the Sharingan, they say he copied it with the Sharingan
The Sharingan can only copy movements and hand signs, not everything.
6- in every debade they downplay him by comparing situations from the end of Shippuden to his version from the first season of Naruto or early Shippuden completely ignoring his development and other feats from mid Shippuden and the end of Shippuden.
7- once he lost the Sharingan everyone automatically assumed that he became weak ignoring all of his history and all of his abilities even tho it was officially stated in the canon novel “Kakashi Retsuden” that Kakashi now without the Sharingan is a lot more stronger than his war arc version with one Sharingan after he trained, learned so many new powerful Jutsus, increased his Chakra reserves significantly plus losing the Chakra drain the Sharingan caused him, invented more powerful Jutsus and made up for the loss of the Sharingan, still has his 1000 Jutsu and still a genius, they don't even try to gather information and look things up and continue the story then judge no, they just assume without even trying to know any facts.
8- he stays a Hokage for about 13 years and does magnificent things as it was mentioned Kakashi Retsuden:
The Fire Nation in Kakashi's reign witnessed a huge development in every aspect, architecture, technology (smartphones, computers, internet, trains… ) and economy.
He invented a system to keep the peace between the nations by exchanging goods, technology and inventions… etc, this system made all nations in constant need of each other instead of fighting each other which resulted in making the fire country the richest in history of all the 5 nations.
He helped Sakura open the first mental health clinic.
He got rid of the Root organization and all the corruption in the Shinobi system that used to truly create all the conflict and wars. Yet still people call him the worst Hokage and claiming that he did nothing as the Hokage.
9- in “Naruto the last movie” the Raikage wanted to blow up the moon and Kakashi stoped him because he believes in Naruto that he can do it yet everyone claims that Kakashi was the one who wanted to blow up the moon, they accuse him of doing the complete opposite of what he did, the man is literally a genius and they accuse him of making such a decision, blowing up the moon while his students, the Hyuga heir and her sister, the head of the Nara clan, the most valuable assets of his Village are up their.
