Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34938099-20180728104553/@comment-34194151-20180729052322

@LegionZero, True, but that's the thing, she was clever enough to take advantage of it and blew off his arm, and could have also outright killed him if the bombs exploded a second earlier by being a little faster. One mistake in a high level fight is all it takes to take your opponent out. Underestimating an Akatsuki member you have been around for years is an error in judgement. That said, while Konan masterfully executed that initial attack by sneaking in paper bombs that he didn't notice until last second, and went on to even reveal her amazing prep for kamui, it is true that Obito ultimately outwitted her with the secrets of the sharingan. Konan may have outsmarted when he wasn't at his mental best, but that's Obito's fault. Its no different from how Zabuza had kakashi dead to rights in their first fight when he outsmarted him with his clone feints and trapped him in the water prison. Kakashi, after getting a second chance and not underestimating his opponent, went on to outmanuever him, so of course it goes both ways. But my point in bringing it up is that Obito can be outwitted, whether its due to his personality or otherwise, and Itachi fights similar to how konan was fighting but imo he does it better because he uses clones in his misdirection. Obito's kamui has a broken tool, but the weakness is that he has to materialize to attack. It isn't easy to catch him of course with his reflexes, but you can't properly react to an attack you don't see coming. Even with kakashi's kamui, he still needed to deceive obito to actually tag him, the only advantage kakashi has over other characters is that obito can't force a stalemate since kakashi has regular access to his dimension.

Its actually quite ironic that Itachi nearly killed obito with a surprise amaterasu using sasuke as a medium, and Konan nearly killed Obito by batmanning his kamui, but he used izanagi to escape both. Which then brings up a plot hole, as Itachi clearly knew about izanagi/izanami, and he was the one who helped obito get extra eyes, so its kinda amazing that itachi didn't account for that.