Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20180830184727/@comment-34194151-20181202002709

@Duviee.

I'm confident that Team Orochimaru can deal with yakasa matagama, but that isn't the issue. Itachi has shown one of his combos to be yakaska matagama as a diversion, into totsuka blade as the finisher. Totsuka blade one shots each of these opponents once it connects, so their immortality is ignored here. Have you not seen it sealing EDO TENSEI Nagato away? Orochimaru can summon as many rashomon gates as he wants. When the matagama collide and detonate, they will explode, creating a large smokescreen. What is konan gonna do during that time? She isn't versatile, all she can do is send paper projectiles and throw paper bombs. Kimimaro is more versatile than she is, but even he is primarily a close range fighter. The totsuka blade itself is incredibly fast when it is used as a piercing move, I highly suggest you take a relook at at chapter 551 pg 14. Nagato, the third ridoku, despite being juiced up gyuki chakra, could not register a mental reaction to the speed of the totsuka blade. So orochimaru blocks the matagama for his teammates using rashomon, the beads explode, and a smokescreen ensues, and orochimaru is dying to the totsuka blade. Now,I like orochimaru's character, but he isn't reacting to a technique as fast as totsuka when it's gonna be very difficult to see coming in the first place.

The only ranged technique that will be useful for kimimaro is his Bracken Dance, and I'm sure he will use it, but Itachi can simply jump away from that, protect himself with susano'o in mid air, then chakra walk/hop from bone to bone. With the sharingan, the fact he knows what to expect from kimimaro, and incredible reflexes and jumping speed, it shouldn't be an issue.

Also, where is it stated that the matagama is made of fire? Also, fire beats wind in naruto, not the other way around, though in real life you would be right.

Furthermore, I think you are underestimating how powerful susano'o is as a defense.

Lol, let's get give you some insight into itachi's crows, because his crows are clearly S rank ninja animals. Chapter 387 pg 12. Itachi's crows after dispersing from a crow clone stunned hebi sasuke, allowing Itachi to catch sasuke in tsykuyomi. Chapter 580 pg 12-15. Itachi's crows stun sage mode kabuto and allow itachi to easily cut his horn off, and that wasn't the only time it happened. I suggest you rewatch that whole fight. orochimaru, even in sage mode, isn't responding to itachi's crows, nor itachi's follow up attack, and he isn't substituting out, itachi is faster than he is.

We have already seen Itachi is capable of orchestrating an entire battle, that's what he has done in almost every fight he has been in, lmao. His entire fight with sasuke was scripted from beginning to the end, people just downplay his intelligence. It's not that he is omniscient, he obviously isn't, he is just better than most other characters in the series at what he does. Orochimaru's intelligence is mostly in the development of jutsu and the study of the natural world, which has granted him immortality and a wide range of jutsu, but not as an in battle tactician. When it comes to battle, he is more experienced than he is intelligent.