Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26958911-20151010214426/@comment-26127155-20151028082017

@Minato 87

The fire seal would take way too long to perform in the midst of battle. Itachi could put jinchuriki under genjutsu so Ma and Pa's presence doesn't equal an immunity to genjutsu (although they should be able to help Jiraiya in 'lower class' genjutsu as long as they are also no trapped). The giant summons would dissapear on contact with an Ameterasu (Itachi covered the mountain side in this battel against Sasuke), Sound based genjutsu is Jiraiya's best bet but even that is a big if (due to Itachi's ability not just to escape genjutsu, but reflect it back onto the opponent).

Jiraiya can come out of this battle with a victory but the ratio of wins/losses would definitely be in favour of Itachi. There are just so many more questions that Jiraiya has to answer compared to Itachi and Itachi's answers seem a lot more viable in most scenarios when analysing not just the character's abilities, but also their personalities (which is why we love both of them so much) as most people could easily see Itachi using these strategies in an actual fight rather than Jiraiya doing the reverse on Itachi (Jiraiya's lack of confidence in genjutsu could potentially prevent him in even going for the technique).