Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-43403813-20190907005521/@comment-43403813-20190930010559

The only genjutsu seen to be effective on a Rinnegan user was the Frog genjutsu Jiraiya used against Pain, which is a sound genjutsu. Sasuke's Rinnegan allowed him to resist the Infinite Tsukuyomi which is way stronger than Itachi's Tsukuyomi.

Also, you are making an assumption by stating that genjutsu would even work on the Pain bodies in the first place, they are corpses. Nagato would definitely know that one of his Paths are under a genjutsu (even if a genjutsu works, which it most likely wouldn't), as what that path is seeing and what the other paths are seeing would appear different. All it would take is for Nagato to stop channelling chakra to that one path to exit the genjutsu, and then rechannel chakra back to that path after a couple of seconds. <<< ALL of this is assuming that genjutsus do work, which they most likely don't on Pain.

I already said that Pain could use Bansho Tenin on Itachi in Susanoo but since you're ignoring that, the other factor is longevity. Itachi under Susanoo does very little to Pain:

> Amaterasu is absorbed by Preta path and deflected by Deva path.

> Visual genjutsu does not work on Rinnegan users, as well as corpses, and there's a lot of evidence supporting that.

> Even if Itachi tanks things with Yata Mirror, he doesn't have the chakra to stall Pain, Pain would just wait till Itachi is exhausted.

> Totsuka Blade most likely wouldn't work against the paths of Pain because of the shared vision, and the fact that they are corpses. (When Jiraiya came out of the frog barrier, he threw a giant shuriken at the Asura path, and the Asura path's swiftness in dodging it was inhuman. Stop downplaying the shared vision).

> In Naruto VS Pain, Naruto spammed loads of clones and Pain put up a good fight for a long time. Itachi would not be able to produce nearly as many shadow clones as Naruto did, and most of what Itachi's clones can do would be countered/ well-met by Pain.