Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-37960523-20200308150511/@comment-43403813-20200308174350

Interesting fight. Usually, a Chibaku Tensei would deal a lot of damage to the opponents you’ve listed, but I doubt Pain would use it in Amegakure. He loves his village and would never risk it being destroyed.

I think the primary threats are Sasori and Kakuzu, and even then, they’re gonna experience some difficulty. Kakuzu’s range of ninjutsu is blocked by the Preta Path, and Sasori’s long-range attacks are deflected by Shinra Tensei. But if those opponents targeted one Path at a time, they’d overpower the individual Path for sure. But it depends if Pain would allow that to happen i.e. Deva Path uses Bansho Tenin on one of the opponents to stop the pressure, Asura Path fires missiles, Animal Path pressures back with summons etc etc.

There’s also the fact that none of the opponents can fly, whilst Pain can (either Deva Path’s levitation or they ride on the Animal Path’s bird summoning).

I think there are definitely ways that the 4 opponents can pull off a W, but I’d be inclined to say that Pain wins mid-high difficulty.