Jiraiya is not going to be able to summon ma and pa in the majority of battles he is placed in . It requires him to stay still and uninterrupted for the duration of the summonClones , Summons , or Genjutsu to distract his opponent . Jiraiya ain ' t dumb , if he needs Sage Mode , he ' d figure out a way to get Ma and Pa . He has numerous ways to get it if he needs it . He can however summon them if you believe his toad summon GamakenGamabunta can hold off the enemy for the sufficient time . Jiraiya was only able to do this vs pain because for some unknown reason to send only a single path . And the surroundings helped jiraiya hide . Are you implying Jiraiya could not summon all three of the giant toads ? Or use the likes of clones . As you said , using the surroundings and hiding is a viable strategy and Jiraiya has shown he ' d do so . But realistically the toads aren ' t that strong . I believe a single attack from Deva Path of Pain sent 3 of them flying kilometres away , breaking all the bones in their bodiesThis isn ' t really an antifeat , Pain is strong as fuck . Even Naruto fought pain with extensive prep for sage mode , and against edo madara he was out of the battle until he gathered enough nature energy . I don ' t know if he can do it passively in his later forms , it ' s been a while since I read . Naruto was in an open field with no surroundings to help and he was limited in the amount of clones he could make due to his prep against Pain . Also Naruto gathers Nature Energy pretty slow this changes in KCM 3 and up , Jiraiya gets it passively from Ma and Pa being fused to him . Kabuto CAN do this though I believe , he passively gathers nature energy without having to remain still . Also Hashirama can because he ' s a GHashirama isn ' t passive . The databooks say he can enter it instantly and just apparently have it , seems he can store it due to the huge Chakra pool inside him . TLDR in a 1 v 1 no prep fight against an evenly matched opponent . Naruto characters will not be able to use sage mode due to the need to remain perfectly still whilst gathering energyLet ' s break this down by Sage Mode users 1 Jiraiya He just needs to summon Ma and Pa and he can use Sage Mode and collect Nature Energy passively without needing to be still . He can pull this off in a fight . 2 Kabuto He ' s able to do it passively . 3 Minato Minato doesn ' t like using Sage Mode anyways , he ' s hard to pin down . 4 Naruto Depending on which version of Naruto , KCM 3 and up take almost no time in gathering Nature Energy . 5 Hashirama Just enters it , there ' s no issue with him .