Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26537507-20160118182432/@comment-9782468-20160118214154

Given that Deidara is a really good long range fighter, he'd give Itachi a much better fight this time around. Itachi does have that one powerful long-range attack, the Yasaka Magatama, Deidara has a lot of attacks to just catch them in midair. Itachi might be able to pull off a win here, but he'd probably be almost as close to death as Sasuke was. Sasuke in general is more powerful than Itachi anyways. Itachi was just way more skilled and whatnot.

@Quakingstar, given the fact that Sasuke could spam amaterasu, and susanoo with EMS, I'd say he was above Itachi at that point. If only because he had Itachi's eyes tacked on.