Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30323490-20180122204034/@comment-3568954-20180125093602

Jiraiya clearly. Jiraiya is a Sannin and has huge chakra reserves, his senjutsu would allow him to know that Kakuzu had 5 separate chakra signatures not to mention that Itachi and Kisame both believed that if both of them had to fight Jiraiya that at best there combined effort would only be enough to stalemate him. there is absolutely no way that Kakuzu alone would be enough to stalemate jiraiya not to mention he has access to jutsu such as Barrier: Canopy Method Formation which allows him to detect any attack that enters his sphere, meaning he can protect against surprise attacks, he is also a master in Fire, earth, water, wind, yin and yang release

he has massive chakra reserves enough to summon Gamabunta, enough chakra to use senjutsu, has mastery over chakra control, skill enough that he was able to carve a message using chakra when his chakra was disrupted, he is shown lifting and throwing large boulders when he isn't even using senjutsu as well as kicking the giant multi-headed dogs, again no sage mode. he was also able to withstand a full on kick from Gai sense with hardly any scratches and from attacks such as the Giant Ox, he also survived an attack from an enraged Tsunade who would pawn Kakuzu in strength