Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20180830184727/@comment-38123797-20190118133215

Can orochimaru use the sage mode feats? If yes, it is hard for itachi.

1) He can shut his eyes. So, tsukyomi is not working. Finger genjutsu is fodder. Subtle genjutsu can be figured out by orochimaru now that he has sage mode. So, genjutsu is pretty much useless. 2) Totsuka blade is slow. Sage mode increases reaction speed. Kabuto was able to dodge Sasuke's arrow. There is no way tb can hit him.

3) Amaterasu is fast but Orochimaru can use his snake shedding and since he has now hashirama's cells and sage mode, he can certainly do more times than itachi can use amaterasu. Anyways, sage mode can sense chakra building up in itachi's eye. So, there's that.

4) Yata mirror is defense and is anyways not omnidirectional.

So, what orochimaru needs is a strong jutsu to break itachi's susanoo and he wins because of the above counters. Now, there is kusanagi that i can think of. Now, above that, if you intoduce edo tensei, that is overkill.