Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36512555-20200101053037/@comment-34656247-20200102032129

Even if Kirin was telegraphed, Itachi still had to do the reacting. A baseball player would know that a pitcher would be throwing a ball at him, but it's still up to the batsman to react and hit the ball.

@Senjutsu Sage '''vs sasuke. after asking sasuke, "how much can he see with his sharingan", and sasuke told him, "he saw him dead". he zipped to sasuke's side fast as hell (most likely using the body flicker technique) and told him "well make it happen"''' This was done in genjutsu, but is still something I feel is worth considering, why would Itachi not use his normal moveset in that illusion? not using his normal moveset would immediately relay onto his opponent that it's a genjustu, hence making it pointless to use a genjutsu in the first place.