Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26636534-20171019193715/@comment-34194151-20180113022538

Ninja Of War wrote: @Namikaze

No, we don't have to prove or disprove anything. As @Actionmanrandell stated, if you state something, you need to prove it. We certainly don't need to "disprove" those kind of statements and we not gonna take it at face value.

I don't agree with the statement that characters like Itachi and Sasuke are by default smarter than kage. So I'm trying to understand why others like to say so. I don't need to prove otherwise. Hope that clears it up.

On your points, when did Itachi figure out Hidan's jutsu? His plan to utilize Koto was ability, not intelligence and it didn't even work. Stopping edo was done with a hax, so again ability, not intelligence. Stopping CT was literally throwing your most powerful attack at it. Are we really surprised Itachi can blind-side pain's summonings with kunai?

I'm not saying that Itachi isn't smart, but can we just dismiss kage level intelligence because it's Itachi? I don't think so. There is a difference between ignoring my points and me not providing proof. Ive provided ample proof. You have given good points too, don't get me wrong, but I can sense that you aren't thinking this through. Its like you really dodge the subject at hand. I brought up many feats of itachi that didn't involve his sharingan and you didn't address them at all. All you do is regurgitate the same point that oh he has hax abilities. Again, I already said, give an ant instructions on how to build a supercomputer and i assure you that it doesn't have the ability to do it. IE. just because you gave good resources available (such as hax abilities) doesn't mean you can't demonstrate high intelligence, which Itachi has.

And honestly, you don't know anything about izanami based on your last post. Do you know hard it is to guide your opponent and trick them into doing the same move over and over? That's exactly what itachi was doing. Kabuto was tricked into thinking he had the upperhand, and he fell into the trap. That was itachi's intelligence at work, not simply the ability. You have to SET UP izanami, it doesn't just go off without any prep. This is why we can't see eye to eye you don't pay attention to the big picture (or simply don't want to). That's likely why you haven't offered a shred of proof that the other kages are supposedly in a league of their own in intelligence.