Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31171723-20170128170340/@comment-26773508-20170204153111

Kakashisologod wrote: CT attacks from all areas.Kabutos attack is vibration. And EMS Madara's PS Sword can send massive shock waves. We've had overly long and unnecessary discussions about the Yata Mirror's properties with another Itachi fanboy over a year ago. At the end of the day, in spite of the Yata Mirror's vaunted (and conveniently AMBIGUOUS) property of being "able to change its nature to counter ANY attack", we still have no reason whatsoever to believe that the Yata Mirror can block Perfect Susanoo's shock waves without transferring the kinetic energy of the shock waves to Itachi's Susanoo. In other words, the Yata Mirror may prevent Itachi from getting slashed into pieces by Madara's PS Sword, but the sheer brute force of the sword slash is going to send Itachi and his Susanoo flying away into oblivion.

The ambiguous description of the Yata Mirror being able to counter ANY attack is, so far, nothing more than a literary device meant to hype up Itachi at that point and create excitement within the fandom. It's about as literal as Kakashi copying "over a thousand jutsus"; or the BS about the "new generation ALWAYS being surpassed by the previous one".

Namikazenaruto9 wrote:

Since you have quoted the interview I will quote the feats which shows Madara was the luckiest character ever created NOPE. Naruto and Sasuke are the luckiest characters in the series. Their convenient victories and Hagoromo power-ups are just nauseating. Madara, too, has been shielded by plot armor many times. But the same argument can be used against Itachi, given the fact that Kishi magically gave him two super-duper-ultra-haxx cheats in the form of Yata Mirror and Totsuka Blade. Itachi is far luckier than Madara in this regard. And at least one of his super-duper-ultra-haxx cheat (the Yata Mirror) is severley overrated.

P.S. Itachi failed to protect his clan; he failed to hide his true motives from Obito (who could write Itachi's biography to the tiniest of details, save for the location of Shisui's eye); he failed to protect Konoha (since Pain destroyed it anyway); he failed to figure out that "Madara" was, in fact, Obito; and most importantly, BEFORE HE DIEDhe failed to guide Sasuke to the light. Just as Madara was lucky because of convenient "coincidences", Itachi too was lucky because Kabuto conviniently ended up reviving him as an Edo Zombie. Had it not been for this second chance, Darth Sasgay would have attacked Konoha. So let us not forget that Itachi is an over-hyped character as well. He simply doesn't deserve the nauseating fanboyism he's given by the fandom.