Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32713358-20170729061734/@comment-7292165-20170803103724

I do not understand how people think this will be an easy victory for Itachi and Kisame. I honestly do not see Itachi and Kisame winning this at all.

Yes, the last time Deidara battled Itachi, he lost rather easily, but that's because Deidara was in a confined space, something not made for his fighting style, and because he was inferior to Itachi's genjutsu. However Deidara trains his eye to break through genjutsu as seen against Sasuke who's genjutsu was on par if not slightly lower than Itachi when using Genjutsu: Sharingan. However, considering he'd be flying in the air, I doubt eye contact will be much of an issue for him. As for Sasori, I'm not even sure he can even be affected by genjutsu, considering he's a puppet. But, according to the OP, genjutsu won't work on either Deidara or Sasori, so moving on.

Now here's the thing, people are saying that Deidara lost to Sasuke. First and foremost, Deidara lost to plot no jutsu. Logically speaking, Sasuke should've died. Also, the only reason Sasuke was able to give Deidara a run for his money was due to being very powerful himself, could fly and more importantly, had lightning, something that nullifies his clay bombs. Itachi doesn't have that luxury. Deidara being able to fly allows him to bombard Itachi with bombs, leaving the latter to be on the defensive, and having little room to go on the offense. Sasori can even ride on one of his birds too.

Due to Kisame's fighting style, he'll be able to take down most if not all of Sasori's puppets with water attacks and slicing them apart with Samehada. However, it is Sasori's iron sand that is the problem, he can launch anywhere from fast moving bullet-like sand to giant sculptures. Not to mention his Iron Sand: World Order, which covers a wide range and unpredictability will make it all that more difficult for Kisame. Yes, Sakura was able to avoid it to an extent, but even as a fan, I have say that it was plot. He can't drown the guy as he's a puppet and doesn't need to breathe if somehow he pulled underwater. He can still manipulate his iron sand, albeit a slower rate, but should be manageable.

Itachi will be able to handle Deidara's C1 attacks, even though his clay minions will definitely be a bit of a problem for him without lightning release. However, any level of explosive clay higher, and Itachi will be forced to switch to Susanoo, cuz he doesn't have Curse Mark to help with durability. His C2 bombs will do a bit of damage, but Deidara will need to use C3, which will definitely be able to break through Susanoo, as it was going to destroy the sand village. From the point on, Itachi will be done for.

All in all, Sasori and Deidara win this with high difficulty.