Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-27233105-20160130092635/@comment-142748-20160214012637

QuakingStar wrote: Then why ignore his Kirin feat? Why ignore him blitzing Sasuke at their last battle?? Why ignore him saving Sasuke the whole fight against Kabuto?? It seems like its easy for people to try and downplay Itachi here. His intelligence, tactics, and wisdom are what are his main weapons to win battles, he always plans steps and steps ahead as shown throughout the entire manga. He already knows about Minato and his techs, he was 5 when Minato died and the following 2 years he literally studied the entire history of Uchiha, Senju, Konoha and all of its clans and techs. He had the wisdom of a Hokage at age 7. I don't see Itachi losing this, there is literally no way. He has way too many options to stall Minato enough to seal him. Since his Kirin feat is inconsistent with is portrayal. If he can react to lightning, he should have been able to dodge and react to Sage Kabuto's attacks. He wasn't. He got impaled and bisected like fodder. Itachi's speed hasn't been in the 'fastest in the world' category at all in any portrayal at all.

How does Itachi know Minato's techniques? How does he know how they work? Just because he's Itachi? You also conveniently ignore Minato's OWN intelligence, tactics and wisdom as if they aren't special despite Minato being a once in a generation genius AND having the best test scores in Academy history (even better than Itachi who was number 2). You aren't making an argument, you're just showing favoritism to Itachi and exaggerating him.

Rachin123 wrote: @Legendary What don't know how far along Itachi's Susanoo came to protect him. It could've just been the ribcage part, who knows. While in TBM, Minato has not shown any speed feats. I mean he becomes a giant so when things are of that big calibre they don't realky need insane speed if you know what I mean. As for the speed of the use of the sword, when it quickly pierced Orochimaru who was looking right at him, still git pierced and sealed away within seconds. Also, the TBB takes just a bit longer to charge than the Yasaka Matagama. With BM Minato, you can scale to BM Naruto for speed, reflexes, durability, strength, and firepower. Add to the fact he can use Hiraishin in that form gives him so many options. Piercing Orochimaru (who wasn't paying attention to the sword, NOR was he even trying to dodge since he was confident he could just regen after) isn't a speed or durability feat. Totsuka has absolutely NO feats of piercing a Biju's skin, much less a Kurama BM Avatar which is capable of taking the initial Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Ball.