Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5936871-20160126112547/@comment-26773508-20160129043708

Legendary Super Saiya-Jin 4 wrote:

Okay, the situation is that they're both on even ground on the opposite sides of a field. Itachi needs to actually reach Nagato first and get through his summons to actually seal him. His amaterasu is also not nearly as fast as Sasuke's is and he cannot use it on the same level since he lacks Kagutsuchi. Nagato himself can fly and absorb Itachi's amaterasu and knock the totsuka blade away with his deva path abilities as well as use his summons to keep Itachi at bay. He cannot easily fight through a dozen powerful summons, deal with an assault of mechanized weapons, and deal with chibaku tensei all at once and try to hit Nagato when he can fly away as well.Okay, the situation is that they're both on even ground on the opposite sides of a field. Itachi needs to actually reach Nagato first and get through his summons to actually seal him. His amaterasu is also not nearly as fast as Sasuke's is and he cannot use it on the same level since he lacks Kagutsuchi. Nagato himself can fly and absorb Itachi's amaterasu and knock the totsuka blade away with his deva path abilities as well as use his summons to keep Itachi at bay. He cannot easily fight through a dozen powerful summons, deal with an assault of mechanized weapons, and deal with chibaku tensei all at once and try to hit Nagato when he can fly away as well. Not to forget that Nagato can sense Itachi's amaterasu well before Itachi actually manifests the black flames on his targets. Nagato is a master sensor. He'll know that Itachi will pull out some bigass jutsus the moment Itachi builds up the chakra for such jutsus.

Also, as Legendary Super Saiya-Jin says, there's no evidence that the Yata Mirror is omnidirectional. Kishi was just spicing things up by making Black Zetsu exaggerate Itachi's powers for dramatic effect. Saying that the Yata mirror can block ALL attacks is just about as legit as saying that Hiruzen was the strongest hokage. Exaggeration is a real thing, folks.