Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26636534-20171019193715/@comment-734582-20180112184924

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: We further see his planning to neutralize sasuke with Kotoamatsukami, Stopping Edo Tensei. Using Koto is hardly a feat of brilliant planning. It's a straightforward eye power. It can be programmed. Same with Edo Tensei. I find something like Minato's seal a far bigger deal, since it effectively revolutionized jinchuriki design. Or Edo Tensei itself, which uses jinchuriki, genjutsu and summoning to achieve something better and more controllable than a Jinchuriki. Or Orochimaru adapting it for his own immortality jutsu, as he basically Edo Tensei's himself but with a living soul. Itachi didn't seem to have invented any jutsu like Minato, he just used what he used pretty well and was very deceptive, which is a sign of people's skill but hardly general intellect. In that respect he suffers from Shikamaru's problem, in that he's said to be smart but rarely gets a chance to really prove it. Namikazenaruto9 wrote: He also stops Chibaku tensei and Rinnegan's linked vision despite not having much intel. He literally asks Naruto how he overcame it, and linked vision was figured out by Jiraiya within a minute or so of facing 3 Pains.

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: And I am pretty sure the fact that Itachi finds the Totsuka blade and Yata Mirror Also shows that he is even better researcher than someone like Orochimaru. Not really, only that he was faster. Orochimaru had dozens of projects running at any one time, whereas with Itachi we only know of two: Akatsuki and those weapons. Ninja Of War wrote: I think a lot of the time, we often confuse ability for intelligence. The Sharingan's predictive and detective powers are used as a tool to determine an opponents jutsu for a counter-offensive. I agree. The sharingan allows the user to see any move, see chakra and predict attacks. Others have to make do with what they can see or sense, but to a Sharingan there's basically no secret to hide.