Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26958911-20151010214426/@comment-26773508-20151017150116

Trappedinmygenjutsu wrote: @UltimaDude

Nagato is still meant to fight to the best of his abilities. Kabuto would not just sacrifice one of his strongest weapons, for no reason at all (if he was capable of dodging it, he would've). Kabuto himself cursed Nagato's mobility issues after he got sealed. So I fail to see your point.

We do not know how fast Orochimaru's 8 headed snake form could move (Manda, Manda 2 and Aoda are rather fast), because he didn't even have enough time to react to being attacked. It doesn't matter how fast either of them could have moved, if they can't even react to the attack in the first place. What part of "encased inside the mouth of an eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent" do you not understand? Orochimaru was just emerging out of Sasuke, and he didn't even have time to settle down and get ready for combat. Itachi took advantage of that vulnerability and hit him with the ethereal blade. That doesn't mean the Totsuka Blade is unavoidable. It just means Itachi impaled an unprepared shinobi who was just emerging out of his prison (which was Sasuke's body).

TL;DR: Stop fanboying over Itachi when you have no basis to do so