Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26958911-20151010214426/@comment-26127155-20151015095056

Two of my favourite characters fighting each other, both right before their imminent deaths.

Jiraiya's main advantage would be his Stamina and the numerical advantage of having summons, but the main question is if he can last long enough for Itachi's illness to get the better of him.

Itachi was able to use Tsukuyomi, Ameterasu, Shadow clones, genjutsu, Susanoo, fire ball jutsu, etc in his final battle against sasuke and some of these techniques were used multiple times or on a large scale.

Jiraiya's summons are very dangerous but Itachi's Ameterasu was able to cover the entire mountain in the fight against Sasuke and the Summons are way too slow to ever dodge ameterasu.

Jiraiya's worst attribute was his genjutsu while Itachi is a master in the art. Jiraiya's only chance is for the Toad sages to break him out of the genjutsu, but there is still no counter for Tsukuyomi. Itachi is able to cast genjutsu from outside sensor ninja's range but I'll give my boy Jiraiya the benefit of the doubt that Fukusaku and his wife would be able to save Jiraiya from that level of genjutsu.

Jiraiya would have to stay out of the range of Totsuka blade because he has not shown great enough speed feats to dodge Totsuka blade. Correct me if I'm wrong but, has Itachi NEVER missed a strike with his Totsuka blade? (People be acting like people can just dodge these techniques effortlessly when both Nagato and Orochimaru didn't even have enough time to react to being stabbed).

In conclusion, even with Itachi's lower stamina he is able to end the fight quickly like he usually does but Jiraiya could pull through if his fighting plan revolves around wearing Itachi down to the point of Itachi's Illness killing him.