Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-34938099-20180807075632/@comment-34194151-20180812231732

@killman

Animal path used substitution to escape Jiriaya's lion mane at the start of the battle. Also, itachi was using substitution on sage mode Kabuto( a high level sensor ) to set up izanami. Anyway, animal path using substitution is either an outlier or its a plot hole.

Also, everything happens for plot of course, but when an illogical event happens even within the context of the established rules or details of the universe or character then it's a plot hole, aka deus ex machina.