Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30966312-20180308023427/@comment-28819877-20180319232448

Thekillman wrote: We have no idea of the scope of Orochimaru's abilities at this point. It's tempting to assume he acquired all sorts of abilities, but we simply don't know. Seeing as he looks very different now, he may not even have the Zetsu body anymore, making wood release an uncertain prospect.

In short, we don't know what he can do, making any versus debate with Orochimaru rather pointless.

Even if don`t take into consideration Oro`s abilites from Boruto series (since we lack of knowledge about them), i`d still give him the upper hand.

The fact is that Jiraiya has no feats to really kill Oro - his survival abilites were shown to let him survive literally all of his encounters during the series - most notably, he was still resurrected after being sealed into Itachi`s TB and survived his battle against 4-tails Naruto (who actually undoubtebly gave Jiraiya a very hard time) whereas he himself was weakened.

The only way Jiraya can possibly take him down is to use frogs` ultimate genjutsu (named Demonic Illusion: Toad Confrontation Chant), which could possibly turn out to be useless as well since Orochimaru would just liquefy his body (like Kabuto did) to prevent himself from be affected by this technique (just speculation though).

I`m pretty sure Oro is able to counter almost every (if not all) of Jiraiya`s attacks (he`s got a vast arsenal of techniques after all), not to mention he`s aware of most of Jiraiya`s abilities.