Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32713358-20170729061734/@comment-5085906-20170801075843

@Bipedmango

Have you seen Kisame? Dude has chakra reserves on par with that of a Tailed Beast. He took on Gai's 7th gate and still managed to perform techniques after that. The Third Kazekage puppets work best against other puppet users and has nothing on Kisame whose Water Style proficiency enables him to create a sea in a goddamn desert. As for the 100 puppet jutsu, honestly, they may as well be fodder to Kisame. Even Kazekage Arc Sakura took a huge chunk of them while the others were taken down by Chiyo's 15 Puppets. There's no conceivable way Sasori can win this.

Also no - Deidara cannot kill Itachi. Yeah, Itachi cannot use Susanoo forever due to his chakra reserves, but Itachi's a better strategist than Deidara. Also, Deidara may be faster than Amaterasu, but he's definitely slightly below Itachi in speed. I mean, come on - Sasuke with his three-tomoe sharingan took on Deidara and won, and he used both C0 and his self-destruct sequence in that fight, so I don't see how you can even assume Deidara has any way to take on Itachi. Even if he's impervious to genjutsu, Itachi has plenty of tricks up his sleeve.

You're essentially pitting the, arguably, weakest Akatsuki members against top-tier ones like Itachi and Kisame. Of course the outcome's gonna be clear.