Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36006024-20180727165341/@comment-25607614-20180731071339

Obito despite all of his strengths will face some significant difficulties.

Preta Path: If you don't know how this path works and you're not filled with natural energy by dumb luck, as Naruto was, then it is a very dangerous path. Most of Obito's kit is ninjutsu based, so his chakra is easily absorbed. (To defeat this path he'd need to use the cache of stored weapons that he could manipulate with Kamui or something similar.)

Animal Path: Obito has no summoning contracts and no access to Susanoo. The fact that the Six Paths can generate a lot of giant monsters onto their side on top of multiple bodies will be a considerable drain on Obito's energy reserves. (Obito would need to recognize that only animal path was capable of summoning and destroy it early to prevent getting swarmed by giant beasts.)

Asura Path: I uh... eh. It's robot parts. He could screw this one up pretty easy.

Naraka Path: This path is a sleeper problem. Nobody smart would put it on the frontline because most of its powers are dumb. But if Obito didn't destroy this, then he can't permanently put down trouble makers like Preta and Animal.

Human: A powerful ability, but it's a short-range attacker. This thing doesn't have special defenses and has to get up close and personal to touch him. He would however have to recognize that getting touched by it would mean big trouble and then not let it set up sneak attacks where it could just pull out his soul.

Deva: If I had the power to pick someone up effortlessly and move them where you want, I would move them to the close-range attackers like Human and Preta. Deva is strong offensively by itself, but it could also be a potent setup mechanic that would need to be eliminated.

I never felt like Nagato used the paths to their best ability, but when you consider how well they could actually fight together against a single person, you realize it would be actually quite hard for Obito to reliably pop out of Kamui, attack and destroy them without at least one of them being able to mount some opposition in the instant or so when he's open to attack.

In defense of Obito though. Naruto had to be at a much stronger level with better power-ups to defeat him than he did to defeat the 6 paths. Obito lacks some of Naruto's jutsu though. No summons or Susanoo really hurts.