Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34656247-20180622051513/@comment-34194151-20180713062751

Nah, Pain stomps if Edo Tensei is restricted.

Kabuto while nice and tactical and has Sage Mode doesn't have the skillset required to deal with a fullpowered 6 paths of Pain. Pain lost to Naruto not just because of his inexperience with the Perfect Sage abilities and clone feints, the Deva Path was offline for most the fight.

Kabuto is a slippery and tactical fighter but thats it. With Deva Path online, None of Kabuto's gimmicks will work. the Preta Path can absorb his ninjutsu, Almighty Push counters sound genjutsu (we have seen temari using wind to push back Tayuya's sound waves), so a strong enough almighty push can push away the sound as well as Kabuto. During Shinra Tensei cool down, Pain can use the sound of explosions from Ashura Path as well as the explosions themselves to stop Kabuto from getting off the genjutsu. Kabuto will have a hard time dealing with summmons too. The summons won't kill him but they will be an effective distraction. If Pain uses his standard formation he won't be able to get to the animal path while he has to worry about the Ashura's path explosions and Shinra Tensei. One of Pain's win condition ultimately will be using Bansho Tenin into soul rip. Bansho' Tenin ignores Kabuto's evasion capabilities. His ability to turn into water is useful but it has limitations.

I don't see Kabuto escaping chibaku tensei. How he is slipping through the crevices of that large planetoid? How is he using Inorganic reanimation on it? How does that save him from being crushed?