Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26145872-20160224202704/@comment-734582-20160227204743

Dapoculos13 wrote: See, and that's why I don't think it would be a guaranteed win for Jiraiya. I agree that it's not exactly a guaranteed win, but the odds were clearly against Jiraiya.

Jiraiya actually wasted a lot of time, effort and jutsu on figuring out the secret of Pain. Had he known from the start, he could've fought more effectively. The Six Paths of Pain's main strength is simply that people have to figure out how it works. Once you know how it works, it's lost most of it's edge.