Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31171723-20170128170340/@comment-26773508-20170208002333

QuakingStar wrote: Itachi was holding back altogether, blind, sick, and near death.. and even Obito commented how if Itachi actually wanted Sasuke dead he would be dead. 16yr old Sasuke was the same Sasuke who got destroyed by Killer B TWICE, and the same Sasuke who barely beat Danzo thanks to Karin's healing. Sasuke has won by outside help, luck and plot protection more than anybody else in the series. Err...by showing how much of a fodder pre-MS Sasuke was compared to other powerful characters, aren't you undermining your own argument about Itachi blitzing Madara? Since, as you've demonstrated, Sasuke at that point was nowhere near Hashi/Madara/Tobirama level.

Besides, if Itachi really were capable of blitzing Madara, Tobirama Trump would have done that years and years ago. And we wouldn't have the "Only Hashirama can beat Madara." dialogue repeating itself again and again and again in the series.