Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-33308438-20180614101055/@comment-34194151-20180708234401

@LoneNinja.

I Don't understand how I was contradicting myself? I agree with LegionZero btw and I was essentially trying to convey the same points. Sasuke can percieve chakra, and Zetsu was also watching both of them. Something as gamechanging as Susanoo would have been seen by both Sasuke or Zetsu before Kirin came down. The fact that Susano'o WASN'T there before Kirin finished being activated leads the only deduction to be that susano'o was formed as the lightning came down. That leaves an interval of 1/1000th of a second. Itachi probably manifested a rib cage or a premature humanoid susanoo to defend himself in that time. Susano'o isnt a passive skill, it has been established that Susano'o is an active skill. That means the user has to has to activate it by concentration. The fact that he was able to at least manifest a stage of susanoo in 1/1000th of a second shows at the very least he has the reaction time necessary to conjure his susanoo that fast. We know that the Yata mirror wasn't use because the Yata Mirror would have blocked it completely (refer to Databook 3). We also clearly see that Itachi's outer clothes were destroyed and he seemed to have some burn marks as well, meaning that the heat from the lightning strike still affected him. But anyways, regardless of what stage of Susanoo he used, he still needed the reflexes to conjure susanoo within 1/1000th of a second.

Since Itachi can form susanoo in 1/1000th of a second he can definitely react to a Minato Blitz is my point btw.