Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31672013-20180831233027/@comment-34194151-20180924204404

@AsianReaper

1)He did forget though if you look at his memory recall. He thought he had an opening and tried to take it, and he was surprised that the ashura path evaded him. He then saw deva pain watching him, and then his memory was triggered. So yes, in that moment, he wasn't paying attention to deva, but if he remembered the shared vision beforehand, he wouldn't have tried to attack the ashura path without making sure the deva path was blinded first. We see jiraiya looking at each pain's eyes when he was fighting them and making sure that two of them were blinded before he engaged the third one. So that's why I said jiraiya did that smarter. Though, I guess you can make the argument that the comparsion of jiraiya's short term memory with kakashi's long term memory isn't perfectly fair, but still.

2) well, that's the problem. kakashi doesn't know how many of the pains are subtle ones versus the heavy hitters. it was clear that nagato was willing to bring back-up to deva path, because he brought in the ashura path because he was afraid kakashi was starting to learn about his abilities. so, why would kakashi assume that when Deva path is in trouble, nagato wouldn't bring another pain to help? Kakashi has 1,000 jutsus. After baiting out the shinra tensei, He could have easily used his ninken to restrain pain similar to how he did to zabuza by having them come out of the ground and he could have had choji and chouza watching for more pains. That way when another pain comes they can attempt to prevent deva path from being saved. Kakashi overextended the second he assumed Deva path was his only opponent when he knew that that wasn't the case. not to say that kakashi isn't smart but I think he is somewhat less intelligent than jiraiya.