Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36006024-20180828151640/@comment-34194151-20180829013444

The third ridoku should win both rounds.

Nagato is more experienced and versatile and can make the more calculated attacks imo, while sasuke's experience would work against himself because the rinnegan has too many unique and exotic abilities, and he doesn't have any low risk methods of learning about the abilities and their limits, he would be surprised and KO'd. Nagato only expands his hand as necessary. EMS Sasuke likes to do arrow spam and enton spam. But that is easily countered by preta path/ shinra tensei. Nagato can definitely react to amaterasu because he can sense the pressure change, so with shinra tensei or preta path he can do it. He probably can't dodge the arrows but preta path should be sufficient. If sasuke starts for CQC combat, his sharingan will help him alot, but Nagato maybe able to hold his own, and if he manages to catch him with shurado arms, sasuke is toast. he would get restrained then his head blasted off, susano'o wouldn't save him in that situation either thanks to Preta barrier, I imagine he suffers a similiar fate to that KCM naruto experienced.

The summons won't be do much because sharingan should be able to see the chameleon and even cerberus is going down to enton spam. Susano'o also walls most of nagato's offense. So I think he would try to use bansho/tenin to pull him out. He should be able to do it because we have seen him pull two objects separately at a time, like when he pulled kcm naruto with one hand and a meteor with another. He can pull sasuke towards him and his susano'o to the the right.

IF EMS sasuke has Perfect susano'o, it maybe a big problem if his sword slashes are anything like madara's. I also don't think chibaku tensei could seal him, but I don't think EMS sasuke ever reached the mastery needed for that until he got rinnegan, so it might be best to say that he can't in this variant. Nagato can certainly deal with the fully armored susano'o though.

The 6 paths of Pain win but with high difficulty, because amaterasu spam will be annoying for any path not named preta or deva. It's possible they can dodge amaterasu, since pain showed decent speed feats that should put him above curse mark sasuke, but I wouldn't bet on it to be reliable. Pain however would open with summons, and sasuke would need to show he has amaterasu in order to put down cerberus. Pain is then smart enough to keep Preta path at the front of the formation and he would keep the other paths tightly behind him. Sasuke would need to break the formation first, but deva path wouldn't let him. he will use bansho tenin if sasuke attempts to blitz. Preta path absorbs susano'o, and once susano'o is sucked dry, ashura path can end him with that giant blade. ashura path would stand within preta barrier to preta path barrier to prevent himself from being amaterasu fodder. even if sasuke takes down some other paths with amaterasu, as long as they keep naraka out of his line of sight they are good.