Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24514198-20140604211103/@comment-7862945-20140626100459

The Winter King wrote: Not counting the time when obito was juubi's jinchuriki, but during his time as Tobi, he said that if Itachi had known everything about him then he(Himself a.k.a Obito) would undoubtedly been dead by then.

So i am not really an Obito hater here, but i just thought you should know that those two are almost equally matched(atleast from the statement made by Obito himself and from their own feats) Umm, you may just be taking things out of context here though.

It may be talking more about Itachi's strategies, cause Obito at the time wasn't expecting an assault... so it was a surprise attack....

If Itachi knew everything about Obito, his surprise attack might not have failed...

If Obito expected an attack, the outcome might be different.

The Naruto-verse isn't exactly black and white in how power struggles go... it seems it's a mix of type, plus level, plus skill, plus luck, plus other factors....

For instance, Itachi believes that he can't beat Jiraya, yet Orochimaru believes that he can beat Jiraya. But Orochimaru can't beat Itachi.

A lot of the battles in the Naruto-verse are more like rock paper scissors in some ways. Except in the extreme cases like Madara, it seems that most of the elite are the same level and it depends more on their type than actually being at a higher level.

Course, even if you are weaker than your enemy, you could still beat them. Luck (good or bad), chance, carelessness, power, skill, technique, type..... there are so many factors in battle than it's really hard to really say who is stronger than who......