Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26636534-20171019193715/@comment-27924662-20180112184320

@ActionMandrell We do know that Itachi is smart. Or else he would never be given the job of becoming a spy. Be it Uchiha coup or Stalling the Akatsuki he does it with perfection. He even figures out Hidan's jutsu just like Shikamaru did. Something Kakuzu and others weren't able to despite that tall talk about 90 years of experience. We further see his planning to neutralize sasuke with Kotoamatsukami, Stopping Edo Tensei. Even fight with sasuke is heavily rigged and planned fight. He also stops Chibaku tensei and Rinnegan's linked vision despite not having much intel. Finally his scores in Chunin Exam are second only to minato Namikaze in the history. Even Bookworm like Sakura doesn't come close. His other record of forest of Death is broken By Gaara though in Itachi's defense He entered the Exams alone. And I am pretty sure the fact that Itachi finds the Totsuka blade and Yata Mirror Also shows that he is even better researcher than someone like Orochimaru. So the burden is on you to prove Kages are smarter than this guy. Even if he isn't invincible definitely when it comes to intelligence this guy is second to none.