Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-1018594-20150821001654/@comment-26773508-20150823154423

@GreatestSin: You're right about Sasuke's Susanoo being active. I checked it myself. My bad. But sorry, you're still wrong about the fight making sense. Danzo wasting his second Izanagi for using a Kunai against Susanoo is plot-induced stupidity no matter how you look at it. Given the fact that Danzo immediately appeared on a high piller after using his second Izanagi, it's quite logical to think that Danzo could have appeared at a more favourable position after his first Izanagi. Heck, he could have tried appearing inside Sasuke's Susanoo in order to nullify the effect of Susanoo's armour. Had he succeeded, then Sasuke would have been caught off guard and probably killed. Had he failed, it would have been worth the effort, as at least he would know that it's not possible to materialize inside an incomplete Susanoo. Either way, with Danzo's knowledge of the Susanoo, trying to materialize inside the Susanoo would have been the sensible use of the Izanagi, as opposed to doing something stupid like attacking the Susanoo from outside.

Also, Danzo did have his analogue of "machine gun" i.e. that mammoth sucker he summoned during the middle of the fight. Given the pressure he faced from Obito, the most sensible option would have been to dispatch Sasuke as soon as possible, with the least amount of chakra consumption. Again, his knowledge of Susanoo should have helped him. To dispatch Sasuke quickly, he could have summoned the mammoth sucker right behind Sasuke after his first use of Izanagi. Sasuke would have been disoriented and exposed as a result. And since Sasuke would have his back facing the mammoth, any attempt by him to face the summon to in order to defeat it would result in further disorientation and hence, mor vulnerability. Even if Sasuke moulded his chakra on his feet to avoid disorientation, his Susanoo would still be sucked in, again leaving him exposed.

The above scenario is merely a fanciful conjecture on my part. But the important thing is that a Kage level Shinobi like Danzo, who had all the relevant intel regarding Susanoo, would never use a moronic move like attacking a Susanoo with a fucking kunai. With his power, skills and the intel he had, Danzo would have come up with something clever were it not for Plot. Danzo had ten Izanagis, and Kishi needed excuses to waste them. And so he resorted to plot no jutsu.

But that's not all. There's another, even more powerful plot no jutsu in this fight. Namely, Danzo using an Izanagi for 3 small shurikens? Like really? A Kage level shinobi having to use Izanagi for such an amateurish move? It would have been another case had it been Itachi's shuriken jutsu, where Itachi could hit a bunch of rinnegans well outside their fields of vision. Not only that, Itachi's shuriken jutsu allowed him to bend the trajectories of the shurikens and kunais with sheer skill. But Sasuke's shuriken attack was transparent and had a straight trajectory. No Kage level Shinobi would fall for that Academy-level trick. Except again, plot no jutsu intervened. And this is an important intervention, since that one Izanagi Danzo was robbed off because of Plot would have resulted in Danzo's victory. But you choose to ignore that.