Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5936871-20160126112547/@comment-27660682-20160131043824

Baku the data book clearly says the shield alters its attributes to render any attack ineffective. Thats what makes it a perfect defense, it adapt s to any attack at hand. Being able to alter its size was already proven in the fight versus sasuke, so that verifies the databooks claim it can alter ANY of its properties. If it can change size, why cant it change width, length, curvature ? Therefore if needed the shield can cover the entire susanoo. No where does it say it can only deflect elements. It just says its endowed with all nature transformations, which makes sense as it wouldnt be able to deflect all attacks if it didnt have the versatility of the elements. Even then, how is nagato getting behind susanoo? Itachi has the sharingan which gives him tracking abilities and the ability to see moves before they happen. Nagato doesnt have the ability to get behind itachi easily anyways, itachi can just turn around too. Itachi only competes in this fight because his susanoo is broken. Look at chapter 551 page 14. The totsuka blade has insane range and is a one shot kill. Look how far susanoo is from nagato. The sword is insanely fast and nagato needs to see it coming to dodge. Itachi's Susanoo formation speed is also pretty fast too and shinra tensi is useless against yata mirror. Nagato wont have the time to safely get on summons because of the various ways itachi can cast genjutsu, distract nagato with other techniques and then goes for totsuka. Itachi overlays his attacks cleverly and subtely and while nagato is a sensor that doesnt mean he will be able to react to everything itachi does in time. Meanwhile nagato wont be able to even scratch itachi through yata miror. In order to win this fight nagato has to stall. 9 times out of ten, itachi will end the battle before stamina becomes an issue.

Itachi wins